Hamburger Onion Parmesan Buns
We bought some chicken Buffalo style sliders the other day so I wanted to make some tasty buns to go with them. The buns needed to be hearty enough to hold the burgers and the fixings as well as soft enough like a hamburger bun needs to be.
I adapted a recipe from KAF and made several changes including the flour types and changes and additions in several ingredients. I added some dried onions and some Parmesan powder to give it a little extra flavor and just enough honey to round out the flavor profile.
These would have been perfect had I not left them in the oven a few minutes too long since I was working at the same time I was baking these. One of the benefits of working from home but also one of the possible pitfalls. In any case these tasted great and made perfect burger buns and sandwich rolls as well. If you try these you will not be disappointed, of that I can guarantee you.
The European style flour I used has a small percentage of white whole wheat flour and malt which along with the Spelt flour and Durum flour really gave these rolls some excellent flavor.
Directions
Bring the milk up to a boil in a heavy-duty sauce pan and let it simmer for a couple of minutes. Take it off the heat and let it cool to room temperature before using.
In the mean time leave your butter out at room temperature or soften in your microwave.
Mix flours with yeast to combine. Next add remainder of the ingredients and mix on low for 1 minute and then for 9 minutes at speed number 2 and 1 minute at speed number 3. You want to mix/knead until you develop a nice thin window pane which will ensure that the rolls end up nice and soft.
Take the dough out of your mixer and form it into a ball and place in a well oiled bowl or dough rising bucket. Make sure to cover the dough and let it rise at room temperature of if you have a proofer set it to 82 degrees and let it rise until doubled. It took me about 1 hour to double in my proofer.
Next gently deflate the dough and form into rolls and place on cookie sheet with parchment paper. Cover with a moist towel or plastic wrap sprayed with cooking spray. Let it sit at room temperature for about 1 hour until the rolls have almost doubled in size and pass the poke test.
Around 30 minutes before ready to bake the rolls, pre-heat your oven to 450 degrees and prepare your oven for steam as well. I use a heavy-duty pan in the bottom shelf of my oven and pour 1 cup of boiling water in right before placing the rolls in the oven.
Right before you are ready to bake the rolls prepare an egg wash, paint your rolls and add your topping of choice.
Bake the rolls at 450 degrees for the first 5 minutes and lower the oven to 425 degrees until they are nice and brown. Just make sure that they don't turn into charcoal like mine almost did :).
These should take about 25 minutes to cook thoroughly. When done let them cool on wire rack for at least half an hour before digging in if you can wait that long.
- Cleopatra didn't mind the "dark" rolls at all....
Comments
Boldly Baked Buns, Cleo knows these will taste way better than the wimpy colored ones! Nice balking Ian and have a great weekend!
Cleo does have good taste for a Ragdoll! These are tasty rolls....I will have to make these again for sure.
It's not as hot as by you where I think Inferno would best describe it but it's humid like Florida right now.
Hope you have a great weekend yourself.
Ian
Definitely bookmarked.
I hope you enjoy if you try it some day.
Regards,
Ian
I have been researching for my son, the chef. He needs a flavorful burger bun that is quick and easy to make and has a proud taste. Your adaptation will fit the bill. He is not a baker per se so has left the footwork up to "Mom the baker" :) Always enjoy your posts. c
Appreciate your kind words. I hope your son enjoy these.
Regards,
Ian
Lovely Baps, I do love a bold bake.
Cheers,
Wingnut
Appreciate your kind words.
Cheers right back at you! Cooking up some T-bones and roasted potatoes and black beans...could go for a nice Cold one with it!
Ian
ANd perfect for summer grilling! Varda
Agreed, these are great for grilling or just with some simple cheese or butter for breakfast.
Look forward to your next post. I need you to remind me which bread you baked that used the chocolate malt...I picked some up the other day and want to use it now.
ThANKS,
Ian
It was the chocolate borodinsky. I baked some a couple weeks ago for a few people. Went over very well. Delicious bread, and different from the usual. http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/33621/chocolate-borodinsky-pieces -Varda
Thanks for the reminder. I'm pretty sure I printed this out, but my binder is so thick and disorganized I will just print it again. As soon as I can get through the 4th of July week hopefully this month I will have time to try this.
Ian
for some great tasting burger buns. Lovely color on the crust and tasty add in's...what is parmesan powder and how does the flavor come through?
Nicely written up.
Sylvia
Appreciate your kind words and I'm glad you enjoyed my post.
Parmesan powder....my wife bought a few bottles a while ago from some home party. It's basically parmesan cheese in a concentrated powder form. They may add a few other spices as well but I don't recall. You can order cheese powder from www.penzeys.com. You can certainly add some fresh grated cheese in place of the powder but I would increase it a bit so the flavor comes through.
Regards,
Ian
Hi Ian, and Sylvia :^)
Ian, those rolls sound delicious and they look great too.
So great they remind me of these beauties Sylvia made.
Now I have a second bar to try to reach!
:^) breadsong
Thank you so much. I will have to try Sylvia's as well.
These did come out very tasty and now I'm making a bunch of hot dog rolls with a similar formula but tweaked just a bit.
Regards
Ian
Hi Ian,
I made your rolls with some SD and yeast (levain was raring to go, mixed in a bit of extra mashed potato too).
Happy campers, here; enjoyed these for lunch last weekend.
Thanks for sharing!
:^) breadsong
Sorry for the late reply as I was on vacation in Costa Rica and only just saw this now. Looks like your adaptation turned out great. Glad you enjoyed them.
Regards
Ian
Hi Ian. Those look picture perfect. Good enough for a high end steak house burger. Nice!
I just realized that I have yet to try baking buns/rolls. I find myself wanting to, but then when it comes time to bake, I opt for a loaf.
Enjoy those with a few bevies :)
John
Thanks John.
You do need to give some rolls a try. You won't be disappointed.
Cheers
Ian
hi Ian, those buns are best of the best! without any doubt, it's delicious. perfect shape, size, color and crumb. i like my rolls dark as well. here is a link to make your own cheese powder :) http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/crunchy-cheese-puffs?fb_action_ids=678636868819539&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=timeline_og&action_object_map=%7B%22678636868819539%22%3A651610811534528%7D&action_type_map=%7B%22678636868819539%22%3A%22og.likes%22%7D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D
cheers
evon
Appreciate your kind words and I'm glad you like my rolls. Thanks so much for the link to make your own cheese powder and cheese puffs. I will definetly give it a try at some point.
Look forward to your next post.
This week I'm busy getting ready for 4th of July party as I volunteered to make food including hot dog buns and pretzel rolls. Hopefully I will have a little time to try something new as well.
Happy Baking.
Ian
oh yeah.. more buns!! i love pretzel dying to learn .. look forward for your post!!
evon
Here are my original posts:
http://mookielovesbread.wordpress.com/2012/12/30/german-pretzel-rolls-laugenweck/
http://mookielovesbread.wordpress.com/?s=pretzel+rolls&submit=Search
They are easy to make. If you are afraid of the food grade lye you can use baking soda but you may not get as dark of a crust on them.
What attractive looking buns, Ian! so substancial to hold all the goodies, and yet soft enough for a bun.
You make gorgeous buns, Ian.
-Khalid
Always great to hear your kind words Khalid. While these may not be the healthiest rolls they sure are tasty. I will have to try a yeast water version and see how that compares.
thanks again.
Ian
These are gorgeous, Ian. Would you mind if I featured them up front for a bit?
That would be an honor!
thanks
Ian
They look fantastic to me. :)
Appreciate it. Thanks
Ian
I definitely will try this recipe. In your ingredients, you list European style flour. Is this the 00 stuff? Please clarify if you have a moment.
Regards, Brian
No, European style flour is a King Arthur Flour invention. It has some white whole wheat mixed in with wheat flour, and malted barley. Let me know how it comes out. You can certainly sub some AP flour and add in some white whole wheat if you have it. The protein content is about 11.7% which is much higher than 00 style flour.
Regards,
Ian
Wow, they look amazing. Definatley going to give it a go. delicious
Preparing to make these and have 1 question:
Why do you boil the milk?
Sorry for the late reply. Was on vacation and didn't see your question. Thai be honest I'm not sure. I adapted the procedure for this from several other recipes but I will find out and let you know. I think it has to do with effecting the enzymes in the milk.
Here is the reason:
There's an enzyme called protease which inhibits the rise of bread. Pasteurization does not reach sufficient temperatures to kill it. So go ahead and continue to scald the milk; your bread will rise better for it.
Hope that helps.
Hi, Ian, :
Like many of your other posts of rolls/buns, this one has caught my attention. I'd like to make it for our guests (from the EAST COAST!) tomorrow. I may have to modify your formula as I don't have all the ingredients on hand, hope you don't mind. I have a few questions about the formula:
0. What's the % of white whole wheat in the Euro flour?
1. How much does each of your buns weigh? i.e. How many buns does this formula yield?
2. How big are your buns :-) :-) :-) (approximate diameter)? Would it be big enough for a 4' burger?
3. This formula is 100% commercial yeast leavened. If I'm using starter and yeast water, how many grams per bun would you recommend in order to yield a bun of the same size in #2 above or one that's big enough to hold a 4' burger?
4. Do I need to re-hydrate the dried onions (either with liquid in or outside the formula)?
Thanks much!!!
Yippee
So sorry for the late reply. I didn't see this until now.
if you make the rolls 125-130 grams they will be big enough. That goes for YW version as well.
yes, rehydrate the onions in the water you are using for the main dough. I don't have the diameter but I know this weight works well. You can flatten the roll after shaping as well.
Let me know how it came out.
Good luck!
Ian
I finally made these, after bookmarking this one a while back. Changes I made:
I'll make burgers tomorrow and post a picture of the inside if I remember!
Thanks for this recipe!
Those look perfect!
I'm sure they will go great with your burgers. I've used fresh cheese many times and it's a great substitution if not even better. Glad you let me know how it came out.
Ian
This came up on the homepage and the Caramelised Onion and parmesan combination sounded like something to try.
I fried and sweated down some onions a few times with some herbs and a touch of sugar, soy sauce and a pinch of cinnamon. On the last one, kept some of the liquid to use in the dough, then mashed the yummy onion in to a coarse pulp.
Made a 3.5:1 Strong White Flour : water, white sandwich loaf style dough. Containing a good pinch of salt, sugar and ~10g fresh yeast, a glug of olive and a handful of parmesan I mixed up the 3 cups flour and water with the onion water, for the initial rough mix. Then I mixed in the onion pulp. Mixed well then kneaded adjusting the wetter loose and slighly sticky dough with the final 0.5 cup flour.
Did a regular rise, which tripled, then formed buns, Wide and 1" thick to fit 8 in a baking pan accounting for proving growth.
Milk glaze and baked first at 325 then 375 total 40 mins.
Totally delicious with some suitably garnished home made burger patties and some wedges!
Glad I could inspire you to try your version. They must have made excellent burger buns!