While I was blog hopping potato stuffed buns at Rekha's place reminded me of potato buns that we get back in India. Thanks Rekha for sharing your recipe. I just adapted her recipe to make spicy fennel flavored buns for Ivy's Thik Spice-Mastic Gum and Fennel.
The original recipe called for an egg, however I substituted it for a tablespoonful of cornflour. Result was good. They looked like these ..........
Fennel Flavored Khara Buns/Spicy Buns (Khara=Spicy)
Warm milk - 1 cup
Cornflour - 1tbsp
Butter - 1/4 cup (soft butter at room temp)
Instant Yeast - 2tsp
Plain Flour - 2.5 cups
Spicy Chutney - 1tbsp (Fennel (1tsp)+Green Chillies+salt+Pudina/Mint+Coriander=approx qty)
Method
Grind Fennel (1tsp)+Green Chillies+salt+Pudina/Mint+Coriander to a smooth paste with little water
Since instant yeast is used here, no need to proof the yeast.
Mix all dry ingredients. Add chutney to it and mix well.
Add soft butter and mix well. At this stage the dough mixture resembles bread crumbs.
Add milk little at a time and make dough. Knead the dough for 10 mins.
Divide the dough into 5-6 equal parts using a knife. Shape it and place it on a greased baking plate.
Cover the tray with a cling wrap and leave it in a warm place to rise. This waiting time is 1-2hrs
After 2 hours, preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Remove the cling flim and coat the buns with milk (milk wash)
Put the buns in the preheated oven and bake it for 20-25 mins. Insert a knife and check. If the knife comes out clean, it is time to remove the buns.
Enjoy them warm with little butter smeared over them. They are a perfect accompaniment to your tea/coffee.
With Tea...and a little Fennel Flower for Kitchen art event :
wow lakshmi they looks awesome, they must be very flavore full with fennel nice color too dear and i don't know that we can use corn flour in the place of egg this is very new to me now iam going to try this with corn flour and just now iam having your mint maddur vade and they came out very well with nice mint flavor i can smell your Khara buns from S to Abu. he he he
ReplyDeleteWow lakshmi iam so impressed...looks very nice..i really love them...i remember my childhood.
ReplyDeleteLakshmi bun super agi ri! Coffee+ bun photos is too good! Bisi bisi bun ivaga lunch ge sikkidre yestu chennagittu!!
ReplyDeleteI can smell the aroma of ur bun, perfect at tea time!
ReplyDeleteMan,donno how do u even remember thes items forget about recipes...just reminds me those school days Khara buns being the only stuff afforded..
ReplyDeleteI just got some fresh yeast yesterday .will try out them today itself..Thanks a ton
wow khara bun looks sooo yummy. I love having this with coffee. never made it at home, always buy it form Iyengar bakery.. yum yum
ReplyDeleteHey That's a very tasty recipe ..Thanks for sharing:)
ReplyDeleteYUM! If you use yeast, not adding egg is okay, looks puffed and fabulous. I made one too, don't they taste so good. Home made Khara buns still not like Iyengar buns but close, right? Good one! :)
ReplyDeleteI remember my younger days. I like eating kara bun from a bakery near my home. Memorable recipe....
ReplyDeletecute fennel flower and of course mouth-watering buns. Lovely entry Lakshmi.
ReplyDeletewow.. those look really yummy. I am bookmarking this one Lakshmi.
ReplyDeletesuperb lakshmi..looks perfect..lovely recipe..will try it too..
ReplyDeletesuperb lakshmi..looks perfect..nice recipe..will try it too..
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like my kinda recipe,without egg and thanks for the recipe:)
ReplyDeleteBuns looks yummy. Lovely color.
ReplyDeleteWow wat a flavoursome buns LG...looks delicious..
ReplyDeleteKhara Bun and filter coffee in tumbler look perfect for an enjoyable weekend evening.
ReplyDeletewow!, super kantha ide ri nimma bun..
ReplyDeletenangoo bekittu ;)
anything karam with coffee goes yummy... perfect match and nice entry dear.
ReplyDeleteyumm, these days you get Congress buns...where you stuff congress kadalekai beeja and butter in between the buns and nippat bun where you stuff nippat, grated carrots and onion. Amazing innovations!
ReplyDelete@Rekha,
ReplyDeletecongress buns sound interesting. Ya..amazing innovations
This is a good one.....looking at this Khara bun brought back so many memories :)
ReplyDeleteOhh! These looks so delicious. That too eggless. I have bookmarked this recipe. I can add add spices of my choice and enjoy this one.
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for sharing this recipe.
thanks a ton for postin this,..thy look so yum together,.;-)
ReplyDeleteWow, So cute and tasty bun with hot coffee.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have some of these buns with my coffee right now. Thanks for participating more than once.
ReplyDeleteWow Lakshmi, buns thumba chennagi idhe...perfectly shaped!
ReplyDeletehey lakshmi.. I just baked my buns today..it came out well! thanks. However i added some chopped onions too. I used a different kind of starch blend instead of corn flour.. Yr recipe is amazing n thnx!!! just finished eating them :)
ReplyDeleteRi naanu ninne maadi yardo manege thogondu hogidhe. Thumba chennagi bandhithu. I also used jeera powder. Naale nan recipe na post maadthini.
ReplyDeleteHi Lakshmi,
ReplyDeleteI made these buns yesterday. I omitted the fennel, I added mint and a little bit of chopped onions. They turned out just fine. Since I did not have instant yeast, I added active dry yeast and followed the process.
Thanks for your recipe.