Cardamon Buns
Cardamon is expensive, but these rolls are delicious. I bought a jar of cardamom seeds just for this recipe and the crunch when you bite into a seed and taste the spice makes this recipe.
Makes roughly 16 rolls.
Total Preparation Time
Total preparation time is 120min
- Boiling Milk - 30min
- Mixing ingredients - 15min
- Letting dough rise - 30min
- Mixing ingredients - 10min
- Rolling, combining, and cutting - 15min
- Baking - 14min
Ingredients
Dough:
- Flour - 450g
- Milk (water, or floral tea)- 250ml
- Butter - 75g
- powdered cardamom - 1 tablespoon (15ml)
- Salt - 1 teaspoon (5ml)
- Sugar - 30g
- Yeast - 1 tablespoon (15ml)
Filling:
- Butter (room temperature) - 100g
- Flour - 1 teaspoon (5ml)
- Coarse ground cardamom - 1 teaspoon (5ml)
- Brown sugar - 50g
- White sugar - 50g
- Salt - a big pinch
Before baking:
- Egg - 1
Method
- Melt the milk and butter together and let cool to 37C
- Add the yeast to the milk solution and let it sit until foamy
- Mix in the other ingredients to make the dough, and set aside to rise until double in size
- Mix the filling
- Roll out the dough into a large thin sheet
- Spread the filling on the dough and fold into thirds from either side
- Roll the dough again to make it as large as possible without tearing
- Cut into pantaloons, twirl the legs separately, then together, and then tie them into a knot. (see picture)
- Brush with egg
- Sprinkle with sugar
- Bake at 425F (220) 14min swapping racks half way.
