Red Yeast buns ( Walnuts, Sultanas, Cinnnamon)

Soft and fluffy rich red yeast rice buns..

Loving this deep red yeast color, this time I used my white bread loaf recipe and made 10 good sized buns.  If you like, you may bake it as a 1 kg loaf of bread.  The fillings are actually the leftovers from the Monkey Bread that I tried to bake 2 days ago. I was silly enough to have find that I'd forgotten to put any yeast in the dough! So,  I had no choice but to dump the dough in the bin!
Anyway at least I have not wasted it at all with the ingredients, the buns turned out really good. :


My bread machine has a bit of a problem, instead of using my mixer, I thought I could give it a go with my food processor. I bought it last year December and have not really used all the functions provided.  I saw a lot of Japanese bakers using it so I was curious and wanted to experience it myself.  It did such a quick kneading job in a blink of an eye! The dough was rising really well and the texture of the bread was soft and fluffy!

Combination of Walnuts, Sultanas, Brown sugar, Cinnamon and Butter.

Here's the recipe ( 1 kg loaf / 10 good size buns):

Water, lukewarm   325ml
Butter or Margarine    25g  ( I used grapeseed oil)
White Sugar     2 and 1/2 teaspoon  ( I used Honey)
Skim milk powder    1 and 1/4 teaspoons
Red yeast rice   1 tablespoon ( grinded into powder using coffee grinder)
Salt     1 and 1/4 teaspoons
Bread flour    470g
Dry yeast     1 and 1/2 teaspoons

Wrap ingredients and roll in a ball shape

Yumm......

Methods ( food processor):

1.  Mix lukewarm water, sugar and yeast together.  Whisk until all the yeast has dissolved.  Wrap and leave it aside for 5 minutes until it becomes foamy.
2.  Wrap and let it chill in the fridge for 10 minutes.
3.  Meanwhile, add all dry ingredients, the flour, skim milk powder, salt and red yeast rice powder into the food processor.  "Pulse" the machine 2 to 3 times so that it is well mixed.
4.  Pour in oil while the machine is running.  "Pulse" 2 to 3 times.
5.  Gradually pour the rest of the yeast mixture into the food processor.
6.  "Pulse" very briefly until dough comes together.
7.  Remove dough onto a clean working surface, deflate air bubbles.
8.  Roll it into a ball shape and let it rise for an hour or until size doubled.
9.  Divide into 10 pieces and shape into ball.
10. Wrap with ingredients and let it rise in the pan for about an hour or until size doubled.
11.  Bake in pre-heated oven 180 deg for 35 minutes or until golden brown.
12.  Happy baking!


Or, you may like to knead it by hand / using your Mixer.