Puffy buns with nut filling for tea: a recipe for the perfect dough

Flavorful homemade buns are the perfect tea time pastry. They can be a great alternative to pies, cakes, and dumplings. The key to perfect buns is a fluffy yeast dough, which is best made with milk.

Cook Halyna shared on Instagram a recipe for fluffy buns with nuts. The dough is made with milk.

Ingredients:

• milk - 160 g
• flour - 350 g
• sugar - 3 tbsp
• salt - 0.5 tsp
• fresh yeast - 20 g
• vanilla sugar - 1 package
• butter - 80 g
• eggs - 1 pc.

Filling:

• nuts - 250 g
• eggs - 2 pcs.
• sugar - 1 tbsp
• milk - 50 ml

Method of preparation:

1. For the starter, add yeast, 1 tbsp of sugar and a little flour to warm milk. Mix and leave for 10 minutes until it forms a "cap".

2. Then add sugar, salt, vanilla sugar, egg and sifted flour and knead the dough. Next, add the pieces of butter at room temperature, cover the dough with a towel and leave it for 1 hour to rise.

3. For the filling, fry the nuts, grind in a blender until smooth, add sugar and egg and mix.

4. Knead the dough with your hands and roll it into a rectangle no more than 3-4 mm thick. Spread the nut filling on the dough and smooth it out. Fold over 1 edge of the dough by 1/3, and then cover with the other edge of the dough. Cut the folded dough into 8-10 strips, twist them, roll each bun into a snail-like form, and leave the finished buns under a towel for another 40 minutes.

5. Brush the finished buns with milk and bake in an oven preheated to 170 °C for about 35-45 minutes.