Chinese Buns

For these Chinese buns, we loosely followed the recipe from here to make the dough. It has the following ingredients:

• 1 package dried yeast or 1 cake fresh yeast
• 1 cup lukewarm water
• 4 1/2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar (we used less)
• 2 tablespoons Crisco or vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 2 tablespoons sesame seed oil (we didn't use this)

We made a vegetarian filling with the following ingredients:

• 3 eggs, scrambled
• 4 carrots, shredded
• 1/2 onion, finely chopped
• 1/2 head of a small cabbage, finely chopped

You can do all the chopping and shredding with a food processor.

German Brötchen

Sunday morning, baking a batch of German Brötchen.

We followed this recipe (see here): 

WEIZENBRÖTCHEN, 12 rolls (adapted from Richard Ploner: "Brot aus Südtirol"):

• 500 g Italian Tipo 00 flour
• 8 g instant yeast
• 4 g/1 tsp. sugar 
• 270 g water, lukewarm
• 40 g olive oil
• 10 g salt
• 1 egg, slightly beaten, for brushing
• 6 g sesame seeds, for topping
• 4 g poppy seeds, for topping
• 14 g sunflower seeds, for topping

Homemade pasta in 5 minutes

Here is how you can make delicious pasta in just 5 minutes.

All you need is:

• 100g flour
• 1 extra-large egg
• a food processor
• a rolling pin
• a clean surface

Step 1/4: Mix

First, put the 100g (7/8 cup) flour in the food processor and blend for 2 seconds. Then, add the egg and blend for another 10-20 seconds. If you have a smaller egg, use less flour (about 80g or 3/4 cup) or add an extra yolk. The dough should be yellow and somewhat moist. We used the knife blade in the food processor.

Step 2/4: Roll  

Spread a handful of flour on a clean surface, form the dough into a ball in your hands, and roll it out using a rolling pin. 

Repeatedly roll, rotate, roll, turn, roll, until it is thin like this:

Step 3/4: Cut

Then cut the dough in pieces. One cutting method, if you want long pasta, is to add flour on the rolled-out dough, then fold it over once or twice, then cut.

Step 4/4: Boil

Now boil in water for 1-2 minutes, to reach the desired softness. Done!

We got the recipe from this YouTube video below. The difference is that you don't need a pasta machine. A good old-fashioned rolling pin is just as good!