Hot Dog Bun (Pig in a Blanket)

I love soft and moist hot dog bun from Chinese bakery.Whenever I visit Chinatown,I'm sure hop into one of the Chinese bakery to grab a cup of coffee and few pieces of the soft and delicious buns.One of my favourite bun is Hot Dog Bun!! Months ago when I visited food-4tots blog,I saw her beautiful Sausage Bun and vowed going to try out her recipe soon but don't have the chance until now! The dough or bun for this recipe is really soft and moist !! Even after 3rd day,the bun is still soft.Since I have bread machine(BM),I skip the method of kneading and proofing .My BM doing all the work for me.Isn't great? BM is a god send and really make life easier!! As Aunty Lily said,it's a good investment!! The down side is I don't have digital scale. I just estimation the number with my manual mini scale since the ingredients measurement comes in single digit number. I pray the recipe is not too critical .My verdict: the bun quality comes out right which I'm not disappointed at all!! At last I found a right recipe which make my day!! I keep saying it's sausage but hubby correct me said it's hot dog.Well, I guess American have different term or name for this frankfurters..Even the name tag on this bun in bakery written as Hot Dog Bun!! The original recipe adapted from dailydelicious


Ingredients:


300g bread flour,sifted
5g instant dried yeast
10g granulated sugar
6 g salt
30g unsalted butter (room temperature)
220-230g 1 egg plus whole milk
12 pieces normal size hot dog/sausage
6 pieces of cheedar cheese,cut half
Egg wash - 1 egg plus 2 tsp water.
some butter from brushing

(A) Methods For hand Kneading:

1) Put ½ portion of the flour and yeast in a bowl, whisk to combine, add sugar and salt and whisk again.

2) Pour the egg and milk mixture into the bowl. Use a large spoon (or pastry scraper) to mix everything together.

3) Put the remaining ½ portion of the flour into the bowl and knead briefly to combine all the ingredients.

4) Take the dough out of the bowl and knead. You will feel the dough become elastic after kneading for about 5 minutes.

5) Add butter and knead by using the heel of your hands to compress and push the dough away from you, then fold it back over itself. Give the dough a little turn and repeat. Put the weight of your body into the motion and get into a rhythm. Keep folding over and compressing the dough. Knead for 5-10 minutes or until the dough is soft, pliable, smooth and slightly shiny, almost satiny. Or you can also try stretching part of the dough, if it can stretch into a thin sheet without breaking, the dough is well-kneaded.

6) Put the dough into a lightly buttered bowl and cover with damp cloth. Let the dough rise in a warm place until its size doubles (1 – 1 ½ hour depending on the room temperature).

7) Take the dough out of the bowl, deflate it by touching lightly.

8) Cut the dough into 8 pieces, roll into a ball and let them rest for 10 minutes (cover with damp cloth).

9) Use a rolling pin to roll the dough into an oval shape, then place the sausage and 1/2 cut cheddar cheese in the center. Cut both sides of the dough into 7 strips. Fold the strips alternating the left and right over the hot dog/sausage.

10) Place the rolls on the greased baking sheet. Cover the rolls and let it rise until it almost doubles in size. Brush with egg wash. Preheat oven at 200°C. Bake at 200°C for 8 minutes then at 180°C for another 5 minutes or until the rolls turn golden brown.
Method For Bread Machine:*I used this method instead*


1:Measure and sifted flour,salt and sugar in a medium bowl .

2:Place milk + egg and butter first in BM container,then flour mixture.Lastly add in instant yeast.Then press the key function on *Dough* .

3:Let's the BM mix and knead the dough until the cycle finish with "beep" then the BM start proofing the dough for the next cycle.

4:Remove the dough when proofing cycle finish,then punch down the dough to release the air.Knead the dough a couple of times,then divide the dough into 12 pieces,about 80 gm each.

5:Roll the divided roll into ball shape,then use a rolling pin to roll the dough into oval shape.Dust some flour if the dough if 's too wet.Sprinkle flour on the counter top before rolling the dough.

6:Place the hot dog/sausage in the center. Cut both sides of the dough into 6-7 strips,then place 1/2 sliced cheddar cheese on top of the hot dog. Fold the strips alternating the left and right over the hot dog.

7:Place the rolls on parchment paper or silicon mat. Cover the rolls and let it rise until it almost doubles in size. Brush with egg wash.

8:Preheat oven at 375 F.Bake at 375 F for 10 minutes then at 350°F for another 5 minutes or until the rolls turn golden brown. Then brush with some butter while the bun is still warm to make it look shiny. Love the creamy cheesy flavor that infused into the bun.


Note:

I baked this bun on middle rack of my oven coz my oven temperature is quite high.Again it's depend on your oven temperature,maybe you can reduce or increase 5-10 F.