Pulla

April 21, 2019

Heini is approximately other workmate who generously shared their signature dish alongside me through the lab good daytime cookbook. She's good known for baking tightly spiralled Finnish cinnamon buns called pulla, too nosotros attempted to follow inward her footsteps over the Easter weekend. 

Our buns turned out puffier too less expertly formed than Heini's, but they were yet magnificent: bready, but richer, alongside sweetness seams of spice; perfect for seeing inward tumble alongside a loving cup of tea.

Pulla - Korvapuusti (Finnish cinnamon rolls)
(a recipe shared past times Heini)

dough
1 loving cup milk
15g fresh yeast or 12g dry out yeast
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/3 loving cup caster sugar
2-3 teaspoons dry soil cardamom
3-4 cups manifestly flour
75g butter, at room temperature

rolling
50g butter, melted
caster sugar
dry soil cinnamon
1 egg, lightly beaten

Gently warm the milk inward a pocket-size saucepan, too and then stir inward the yeast until it's dissolved. Transfer the mixture to a large bowl too add together the egg, salt, sugar, cardamom, too most of the flour. Mix it all together to course of report a dough, gradually adding a trivial to a greater extent than flour until the dough is smoothen too pulls away from the walls of the bowl. Knead the butter into the dough, continuing until the dough stretches when pulled. Cover the bowl alongside a teatowel too instruct out it to ascent inward a warm place, until it has doubled inward size.

Get yourself a large construct clean surface too lightly flour it (you'll come across inward the photograph inward a higher house that I pose downwardly a canvas of baking paper). Turn the dough out too gyre it into a 20cm x 40cm rectangle, one-half to 1 cm thick. Spread the melted butter over the dough alongside a pastry brush, leaving a duad of centimetres bare on 1 of the brusque sides. Sprinkle the butter generously alongside saccharide too cinnamon.

Set upward 1-2 baking trays alongside newspaper too lightly fossil oil them. Handling the buttery brusque side, gently gyre the dough upward into a log alongside a spiral cross-section. Slice the dough into triangle-shaped buns too house them on the baking tray thus that the tip is pointing upwards too there's enough of infinite betwixt them. Use your thumbs to force the tip downwardly on each bun. When the trays are sum of buns, encompass them alongside tea towels too let them approximately other 10-15 minutes to rise.

Preheat an oven to 225°C acre the buns are rising. Brush the buns alongside egg too bake them for nearly 12 minutes, until browned. Enjoy warm from the oven, shop them for a duad of days inward a airtight container, too revive them alongside 10-15 seconds inward the microwave.