Indian Spicy bun (Khara bun)

One day one of friends had posted about the spicy buns that are available in Bangalore on Facebook. Though I have never tasted them in Bangalore, I had eaten them in my place as a child when my grandfather brought it for us. So I thought of giving it a try. To my surprise it came out well. So here I'm posting the receipe of the Indian spicy buns.

Spicy buns:
Ingredients:
1. All purpose flour - 4 cups
2. Active dry yeast - 2 table spoons
3. Milk - 1 cup
4. Butter - 3-4 table spoons
5. sugar - 1 table spoon
6. Salt  - 1 1/2 table spoons (or to taste)


For Masala:
1. Onion - 1 Medium size
2. Geen chillies - 2
3. ginger - 1 table spoon
4. Mustard seed - little
5. Coriander
6. Jeera - little
7. Oil

Method:
Preparing Masala:
1.Cut the onions, green chillies.
2.Heat one table spoon of oil and put mustard seeds and jeera and allow them to sizzle.
3.Add ginger,chopped green chillies, onion and fry till onions get transparent and add coriander.
 Keep this aside.

Preparing buns:
1. warm the milk (it has to be slightly warm. If its too hot would kill the yeast).
2. Add yeast, sugar into the milk and keep aside for 5 mins.
3. Take a large bowl and put the all purpose flour, salt, melted buttter into it and mix well.
4. Now add the yeast mix into the flour bowl and kneed well (for about 10-12 mins). The dough has to be soft.
5.Make well inside the dough and place the above prepared masala and mix well.
5. Place this dough into a bowl coated with butter and cover with a wet cloth and keep it aside for 1 hour.
 After an hour the dough would have doubled in size.
6.Punch the dough a little and make small round dumplings .
7.Keep these dumplings for another 30 mins by covering a wet cloth.
8. Now take a brush and apply little milk on the bun dumplings (this gives the buns a nice color).Its called milk wash.(you can also do same with egg).
9. Preheat the oven at 225 C  and bake these for 20 mins. (keep checking in between).
10. After 20 mins remove the buns from oven and allow them to cool for 20 mins.

Serve them with the evening tea and enjoy..

I know its a long procedure, but if you love cooking it gives a great pleasure in preparing.. Enjoy..