Kiri Cheese Buns

These buns taste lovely when you bite into it and feel the cheese oozing out! My daughters used to love them and would beg me to get them from a bakery store near my office called Caesars. Unfortunately, I ventured trying this recipe after they left to University 🙁

Prep Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 2 and 1/2 cups Maida

• 1 cup Warm milk

• 1 and 1/2 tsp Yeast

• 1 tsp Sugar

• Salt, to taste

• 1 and 1/2 tsp Baking powder

• 2 tbsp + 1 tbsp Butter

• Kiri cheese cubes, as needed

• Milk and sesame seeds, for brushing and garnishing

Instructions

1. In a mixing bowl add warm milk and dissolve the sugar first

2. Dissolve the yeast stirring thoroughly and leave it aside for 10 minutes for the yeast to bloom

3. In another bowl add the maida, baking powder and salt and whisk well

4. Add this into the bloomed yeast mixture, add butter and start mixing into a dough kneading well

5. Grease the dough with 1 tbsp butter and keep covered with a wet napkin in a warm place for 1.5 hrs

6. Once the dough rises, punch it and knead it again

7. Cut equal size balls of the dough

8. Flatten one ball with your palms, add 1/4 of the cheese cube into it, seal and smoothen the ball once again

9. Line all the balls in this manner on a greased baking tray

10. Cover with wet cloth and keep aside for half an hour till it again rises

11. Brush them with milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds on top pressing them slightly

12. Bake them at 160 degrees C pre-heated oven for around 30 minutes keeping a watch, remove as soon as the top and sides are golden in colour

13. Have it hot with morning tea or coffee