Black Sesame Bun with Sourdough Starter

 Silkily soft and fluffy sesame buns with natural homemade yeast(sourdough starter)!

 Ingredients:

Baking Tools and method:   

Steps:

1. Prepared 150g Levain and let it peaked( tripled the volume and bubbled max).

2. Once levain already peaked, mixed all ingredient except butter in the bowl and mix until all well combined. I prefer directly using mixer bowl.

3. Let the wet batter autolyze (rest) for 30mins.

4. After 30mins, add in butter to the bowl, knead the dough with mixer or hand until window pane formed such as example below. For kitchenaid mixer, knead the dough with speed 4 for around 8-10 mins to achieve this texture. Stop the mixer and scrap the dough in between at least once in order to produce uniform dough as the dough at the top of the hook may not be uniform with the dough at the bottom of the bowl.

5. Stop the mixer once above texture achieved. Removed the bowl from the mixer and wrap the bowl with the cling wrap. Let it bulk fermentation until it double the volume/size. 

tips: if it is too late in the night, you may proceed to the step 6 after few hours bulk fermentation even though the double volume hasn't achieved. Experiment show the result still the same.

6. Removed the dough from the bowl onto the wood panel( your kitchen counter) for shaping. Lightly sprinkle some flour on the wood panel. Punch down the dough, cut into desired ball size. I make it 9 smaller ball for 8inch x 8 inch square tin and 3 bigger ball for 3inch x 4inch square tin.

tips: Wood panel make your shaping process easier as you are dealing with wet and sticky dough.

7. Rest the ball for 8-10mins, shape and roll them into smooth ball and align them into the greased cake tin.

8. Wrap the cake tin with cling wrap again for final proof. Once the dough ball achieve 80% of the cake tin height, bake them in preheat oven ~180-200 degree celcius for around 10mins depending on you oven model. Use bun top turn golden as your judgement to turn of the oven.

9. Immediately removed the tin from oven once turn off oven. Pop out the buns and transfer them to the wire rack and leave it cool before keep them into the container.

Enjoy your delicious buns!