Classic Big Mac Burger Buns Recipe - How to Make McDonald's Burger Buns at Home - Quick and Easy!!!
Author: Whats4Chow
Recipe type: Buns
Cuisine: American
Serves: 8
Big Mac burger buns are quick and easy to make and that's what we're going to do today, and if you stay tuned to the end of the episode, I will show you a really simple trick to keeping your burger buns fresh for months.
Ingredients
- 30ml Dried yeast
- 60ml Sugar
- 340ml Warm water
- 20ml Oil
- 1 Egg
- 5ml Salt
- 520g Strong white bread flour
- 80g Strong white bread flour
- 1 Egg whisked with 50ml water
- Sesame seeds
Instructions
- To start, pour 60ml of sugar into your stand mixer bowl along with 30ml or 6 teaspoons of active dry yeast.
- Use a whisk to mix these together.
- Pour in 340ml of warm water and 20ml of oil.
- Whisk these together thoroughly, cover the bowl and allow this to stand for 10 to 15 minutes until very frothy.
- After this time, place the bowl on the mixer, pour in 520g of strong white bread flour, 1 egg and a teaspoon of salt.
- Fit the dough hook to the mixer and mix the dough on medium low speed for 7 minutes.
- Add a further 80g of flour and mix this for another 4 minutes.
- Scrape the dough hook down, remove it from the mixer, close the mixer and allow the dough to relax for 10 minutes. If your mach does not have a splash guard, cover the bowl with a damp tea towel.
- While the dough rests, cut 8 strips of baking parchment 40mm in width and 360mm in length. Cut them from the roll lengthways in order that they naturally curl into circles.
- Overlap the ends by 20mm and zap 2 staples top and bottom to secure. This is the rising collar. Continue until all of the collars are formed.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment and place the collars on the sheet.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and roughly divide it into 8 pieces. Weigh the pieces and adjust each portions weight to 130g.
- To form the buns, smooth the tops by stretching dough from the top edge to the underneath around the edge of the bun.
- Place the bun on the work surface, cup your hand over the bun on roll in a circular motion to complete it.
- Flatten it slightly and place it into one of the collars.
- Continue until all 8 buns are formed.
- Cover the buns loosely with cling-wrap and allow them to rise for 30 minutes, or until they have almost filled the collars.
- Whisk 1 egg with 50ml of water and brush the tops of the buns.
- Sprinkle the tops with sesame seeds to garnish.
- Bake the buns in a preheated oven at 200c or 400f for 12 to 15 minutes and they are well risen and golden.
- Remove the buns from the oven and transfer them to a rack to cool, sliding the collars from the buns as you go.
- And there we have the tall Big Mac buns.
- As promised, here is how to keep them fresh for months....
- Slice your buns through the center. These buns will be sliced twice for classic McDonalds centerpiece.
- Butter all of the flat surfaces.
- These plastic film bread bags cost just a fraction of a cent each. For the McDonalds style bun, place the bottom of the bag on top of the base of the bun.
- Place the centerpiece on top of this.
- Fold the bag over the centerpiece.
- Place the lid of the bun on top of this.
- Open the bag and fold the remaining length of bag over the top and bottom of the bun to enclose the whole thing. Place your wrapped buns in a freezer tray and freeze indefinitely.
- Wrapping a single cut bun is even easier. Butter the flat surfaces and place the bottom of the bag over the base of the bun.
- Place the lid of the bun on top of this.
- Open the top of the bag and pull it over the bun to encapsulate it.... then off to the freezer.
- The plastic between the buttered surfaces make separating the buns instant, and you can quickly defrost the buns by toasting the flat surfaces in a pan over medium heat.
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