Organic Brioche Buns With Instant Yeast

These homemade Organic Brioche Buns With Instant Yeast are light, sweet, and golden brown. They make the perfect bun for burgers or a decadent dinner roll!

If you love making organic bread, be sure to check out some of my other favorite recipes like Honey Butter Dinner Rolls, Organic French Baguettes With Instant Yeast, Sourdough Discard Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread, Bone Broth Everything Bagels or Lemon Rosemary Sourdough Bread.

A Quick Look At The Recipe

• Recipe Name: Organic Brioche Buns With Instant Yeast
• Ready In: 4 hours 30 minutes
• Makes: 9 buns
• Main Ingredients: salted butter, all purpose flour, yeast, eggs
• Flavor Profile: buttery, golden, light and sweet
• Dietary Info: no seed oils
• Difficulty: Medium
• Why You’ll Love It: organic hamburger buns with no seed oils

Why You'll Love This Recipe

• Homemade Burger Buns: I love making homemade organic bread because when you make it at home it almost always has less ingredients than when you buy it.
• No Seed Oils: This recipe is free of seed oils, while most store bought hamburger buns contain them! That's one of the benefits of making your own homemade organic Brioche Buns!
• Instant Yeast: These organic Brioche Buns with instant yeast are quick, thanks this addition. This allows you to enjoy homemade bread same day.
• Organic Ingredients: When you make your own organic hamburger buns you can use the best organic ingredients. Especially with an enriched bun, such as these, that have dairy and eggs, using organic ingredients is going to make them taste so much better.
• Use for Everything: You can use these as hamburger buns, for sandwiches, breakfast sandwiches or even as dinner rolls.

What is a brioche bun?

Brioche is a yeast bread that is enriched with butter, eggs, sugar, and sometimes milk. This is different than many other breads that can just be simple ingredients like flour and water. The addition of butter and eggs make these buns rich, flavorful, and delicious. And they also get their golden brown color from all these ingredients.

These organic Brioche Buns make great organic hamburger buns. And organic hamburger buns are so hard to find at the grocery store, so I love making them at home. Though these are not traditional soft white hamburger buns as they are more dense, but they are also more flavorful. Think of a fancy bun you'd get at a steakhouse on a burger — that's usually a brioche bun.

These organic Brioche Buns are also great dinner rolls! If you're serving soup, these homemade brioche buns make a great side dish or dipping vessel for soup because of their density. You can eat them with butter with steak, pork or chicken dishes as well.

Ingredients

• Yeast: I use organic instant yeast, this is what makes these organic Brioche Buns rise. You can use active dry yeast too, the proofing time may just be a bit longer.
• All Purpose Flour: I use Cairnspring Mills, which is my favorite.
• Cane Sugar: I use organic cane sugar which gives these a slightly sweet flavor.
• Milk: Use whole milk for the best flavor. I also brush the tops of these buns with milk instead of egg wash as it makes them just as golden brown and delicious, but you don't need to waste another egg.

*For a full list of ingredients and measurements, visit the recipe card below.

Baker's Tips

• Always weigh ingredients for the best results.
• Make sure to check that your yeast becomes bubbly. This is a sign that it's working and it's not expired. If yeast doesn't become bubbly, it's usually gone bad. There's no point to continue on with the recipe if that's the case as your bread won't rise. Yeast usually stays good for a couple months, but if you don't use it often then you can buy smaller amounts.
• You can also make this by hand if you don't have a mixer. It will just take a little more elbow grease in order to knead it at the beginning, as it will be very sticky. Gloves can help if that's something you have in your kitchen, or if you're not afraid to get your hands super sticky then go for it!
• Even though I do provide a time frame for rising, always make sure to look for visual signs that the dough has doubled in size and that the buns are springy. Those are the cues you're looking for before moving on to the next step.
• A trick to help dough rise faster is place the bowl in a warm place. This can be next to the oven (if it's on) or on your mantle if you have a fire going. The warmer temperature will help the dough rise faster.
• If you want to add seeds on top, you can do that after brushing them with milk. Feel free to add sesame seeds, black sesame seeds, or poppy seeds if you like.
• When baking, make sure to also look for visual clues that the buns are done. They bake best on a middle rack (so the bottoms don't burn, especially if you have a gas oven). If you have to bake one tray off, and then the next that's fine too!
• You can freeze these buns too! Just make sure to have them in an airtight container (something like a Tupperware or large Ziploc).
• High Altitude — Bake at 400°F for 13 to 18 minutes or until golden brown.

How to Make Organic Brioche Buns With Instant Yeast

1. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment, add the warm water and yeast and stir to combine. Allow to sit for 3 to 5 minutes, or until bubbly.

2. Add the dry ingredients: flour, cane sugar, and sea salt.

3. Next, add the melted butter, and eggs in that order.

4. Mix on low on speed 2 for 3 to 5 minutes, until the dough is smooth.

5. Transfer to a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise at room temperature for 1 to 3 hours, until doubled in size. It helps to keep it in a warm place.

6. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Divide the dough into 9 portions, about 90 grams each. Form each of the dough balls into a round ball by tucking the dough underneath.

7. Place the shaped buns on the prepared baking sheet and cover with a kitchen towel (use plastic wrap if you are in a dry climate). Let rise for 1 hour, or until the dough feels springy.

8. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Add the milk into a small dish and brush over the tops of the buns.

9. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. (If you're baking at high altitude, be sure to check the Notes at the bottom of the recipe for high altitude baking instructions).

How to Serve Organic Brioche Buns With Instant Yeast

• Use for burgers or sandwiches like turkey, ham, or roast beef.
• Serve with Garlic Herb Beef Tenderloin Steak as a dinner roll with butter.
• Serve as a side to soups like Meyer Lemon Chicken Wild Rice Soup, Ham Bone Soup, or Healthy Beef Soup With Leeks.
• Use leftovers as French toast! You can slice them up into strips and make Sourdough French Toast Sticks.
• Use as a bun for Avocado Lettuce Wrap Burgers.

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