Name: Mini Italian Buns
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 90 min

Mini Italian Buns is a type of small bun, which is not very regular or popular in Italian Cuisine. You might not heard the name earlier. The only reason is it is invented by me.. 🙂 🙂 🙂 I pretty much liked it and thus want to share the recipe with my readers.

Bun is a popular choice among regular food menu. They comes in different shapes, sizes, ingredients and flavors.

This soft and small buns can be eaten as burger, filled with chicken, salad or veggies. It goes well as a small snacks with tea or coffee. This small buns can also be a great base of many starter items. Put cheese or some corn salad or your favorite ingredients to make it a party type starter dish.

If you love baking, and know that how to make bread dough. Then it will be a easy recipe for you.

I love baking, and try to make new recipes out of it to hone my baking skill. My family love to eat homemade cake and cookies. But they have one more demand, they love varieties in their food.

Everyone knows that most of the children does not likes to eat vegetables. For that we do have to reinvent recipes by improvising the old recipes, where we can insert vegetable and their goodness into the food.

Here I have made this mini Italian bun from a regular mini bun. On the same way you can improve it by inserting some vegetable or salad inside its pocket and then bake.

I think children will love it as a small snack.

INGREDIENTS

*1 cup-240ml; *1 tablespoon – 15ml ; *1 teaspoon – 5ml ;

All-purpose flour – 1½ cup
Activated yeast – 1 tbsp.
Milk/Water – ½ cup
Oregano – 1 tbsp.
Salt – ½ tbsp.
Sugar – 1 tsp.
Butter – 2 tbsp.

Prep Time 1 hr

Cook Time 20 mins

Cooling Time 10 mins

Total Time 1 hr 30 mins

Course Appetizer

Cuisine European

Servings 6 People

Equipment

Oven for baking
Baking Tray

Notes

1. Always strain the flour before using it for anything. This process helps to prevent creating lumps. And you will get a better and soft dough for the recipe.

2. I have mentioned almost in my all blogs that measurement is the main key of each and every recipe. So follow the exact measurement and then follow the process of making. You will get the exact same dish as in the image.

3. Yeast is enough to rise up the flour, so don’t use any soda or baking powder. Or you can replace yeast by baking powder and yogurt (curd). In that case you have to spare 1 hour for fermentation.

4. If you are going to use yeast for this recipe. Then don’t boil the water to activate the yeast. Otherwise your yeast will die and it will not help to make the dough perfectly. Even the dough might not rise.

5. Always use lukewarm water to activate the yeast. Lukewarm water is when you can comfortable dip your finger into hot water without any trouble.

6. You can replace the water by lukewarm milk. It will make a slide difference in the taste of the bread. It’s totally on your choice. I have used water to knead my pizza bread dough.

7. Sugar is the main ingredient for activating the yeast. So make sure that you have added sugar with dry yeast in lukewarm water.

8. Here I am going to make my pizza bread in oven. You can make it on tawa. Follow my recipe below.

Keyword Bread

How to make Mini Italian Buns

Step 1: Firstly we need lukewarm water into a big bowl. Then add 1 tsp of sugar & 1 tbsp. of activated yeast. Stir them & cover for 3-4 minutes. It will rise up in between.

Step 2: Then add ½ tsp of salt & 1 tbsp. of oregano into the yeast mixture. Mix them together by using a spatula.

Step 3: After that we will add 1½ cup of flour little by little into the yeast mixture. Make a sticky dough using the spatula.

Tips: Don’t use extra flour to make it tight. Dough should be sticky in texture to rise up properly.

Step 4: Here we have to add 1 tbsp. of butter into the dough, Then knead them all together using your palm. Cover a lid on the bowl and let it be for 1 hour to ferment properly.

Step 5: After resting them for an hour or so, sprinkle little flour on the fermented dough, knead it properly using hand. Divide the dough into small equal parts.

Step 6: Take one part of dough, make a round shape using your palms. Try to make them equal in size.

Step 7 : Now take a Muffin tray, brush it with butter and then put the dough balls into the tray. My tray has 6 space, So that I can bake 6 Italian buns at a time.

Step 8: Now preheat your oven at 180°C in convection mode. When oven is ready, put the tray into it & bake for 15 minutes at 180°C. In between Brush them with little butter, which gave them a nice gold in color.

Step 9: Here our Mini Italian buns are ready. Make any kind of snacks by using the buns and enjoy it as a appetizer.

I hope you will like this pizza bread recipe and also going to try at your own kitchen.

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Frequently asked Questions

What are the main ingredients of mini Italian buns?

It has all ingredients of a regular bun has. Additionally add oregano and 1 tbsp. of olive oil.

Here you can replace the olive oil with normal butter. It’s totally on your preference.

Are mini Italian buns usable for burger?

Yes, you can make small burger or any kind of appetizer for your starter dish.

Just cut them horizontally from middle and insert your favorite type of veg or non-veg Patties.

Put salads or burger and mayonnaise, that’s it.

Are mini Italian buns very small?

Size of buns are depend on your baking tray size or your own preference.

Even you can make large size burgers by using the same bread dough.

Mini Italian Buns