Home Made Fish bun – Enjoy with lovely spicy flavor of Sri Lankan fish bun

What do you want to make fish buns? 
  • 500 g wheat flour
  • 30 g butter or margarine
  • 1-1/2 tea spoon salt
  • 1-1/2 tea spoons sugar
  • 10 g yeast - dry
  • 1 cup - (tea cup) milk powder
  • 1/2 cup moderate warm water
 For topping / glazing
  • 1 egg yolk & 1 tea spoon sugar

For filling
  • Either fish potato & other vegetables savory mix or chicken or vegetarian version as you like
Method

First add yeast to a bowl with 1-1/2 tea spoon of sugar and mix well and sprinkle 2 tea spoons of water on it. Then add flour to a separate dry bowl, add butter and given salt mix well till it flakes out like bread crumbs. Make a hole in the middle. After that, add 1/4 cup of warm water to the yeast mix and mix well until dissolved. Add the rest of the water cover and keep for 10 mints in a warm place. The yeast should bubble up. Now add yeast to the hole made in the middle of the flour mix.

Keep mixing and then add 1 cup of milk little by little until the mix becomes a non-sticky ball (this mix should not stick to your fingers or the bowl). Take the dough to a flat chopping board sprinkled with flour.  Knead well using your hands continuously for 10 mints until it gets fluffy and soft. Don't break the dough in to pieces while mixing. Use the palm to press the dough.  After 10 mints sprinkle flour to the same bowl put the dough and cover with a wet cloth leave for 30 mints.

Now its time to make the filling as you like - After 30 mints dough becomes doubled the size.  Poke your finger to the dough then it will go back to its original size and leave again for 10 mints. After 10 mints separate the dough into about 11 balls. Spread on a flat board sprinkled with flour.  Spread it in a shape of a triangle with a rolling pin or using your hand keep the triangle pointing up add the filling to the bottom of the triangle and fold the three edges like an envelope.  You can make average size of 11 buns. 

Now for topping/glazing - Mix egg yolk with given amount of sugar. Brush the egg whites on top of each bun. Bake the buns for 20 mints in 200 degree of Celsius in a pre- heated oven. Depending upon the size of the bun adjust the heat accordingly. Bake until the tops become golden brown.

Fish Bun Production Process
Pic by geeshani


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