Baps - British Hamburger Buns

Yesterday I taught my second cooking class at the Davis Food Co-op: Homemade Veggie Burgers. This recipe is for baps, the British version of a hamburger bun. Although these are a bit flatter and denser. I make homemade ones with my bread machine and add healthy things like whole wheat flour and flaxseed. The picture above is one of my baps sandwiching a nice pinto bean burger from a recipe I posted on Vegetarianized! in January.

Baps

Servings: 10

Time: 30 min active; 3 hrs total

Price: <$2.00 total; about 20 cents per bap

Nutrition (per serving):

Calories: 181.5

Protein: 6.5g

Fat: 1.0g

Saturated Fat: 0.2g

Carbohydrates: 37.6g

Fiber: 3.3g

Cholesterol: 0mg

Sodium: 236.4mg

2/3 cup soy milk

2/3 cup water

2 cups whole wheat flour

2 cups unbleached white flour

1 tsp salt

2 tsp sugar

1 tsp rapid rise yeast

Bread Machine Method:

1. Warm water and milk to 100-125 degrees and put into the bottom of the bread machine pan/bowl. Put flours on top. Level the flours and make three shallow wells: two in opposite corners and one in the center. Put the salt and sugar in opposite corners and the yeast in the center. Cover each lightly with flour.

2. Put the bowl in the bread machine and set on dough cycle.

3. When cycle is finished, remove dough and divide into 10 equal portions.

4. Take one portion and shape into a ball. Roll it into a 4"x3" oval. Repeat with remaining dough.

5. Spray two baking sheets covered with foil with cooking spray. Put five baps on each sheet, cover with cooking spray covered plastic and put in a warm place for about 30 minutes or until the baps are almost doubled in size.

6. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. When dough has risen, remove plastic and bake for 15-20 minutes until lightly browned. Turn onto wire rack to cool.

Non-Bread Machine Method:

1. I haven't made bread from scratch much, but to do it here I think you would warm the water and milk and dissolve the yeast in it letting it sit for 10-15 minutes.

2. I think then you would add the remaining ingredients and kneed until smooth, which takes about 10 minutes or so. Then let rise for probably about an hour in a oiled bowl covered with plastic wrap somewhere warm.

3. Go to step 3 above and continue on.