a cool, Mexican-inspired green sauce that you can use to top tacos, enchiladas, or anything else you like. A hot sauce that is light, cool, and excellent for summer! Serrano peppers may be quite spicily. I begin with 1 here. Add more peppers until the level of heat you desire is reached.
| Prep Time: | 25 mins |
| Cook Time: | 25 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 55 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 buns |
Ingredients
- 1 ¼ cups warm milk (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)
- ⅓ cup white sugar
- 2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
- 4 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ cup butter
- 1 ½ cups raisins
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup water
- 2 tablespoons apricot jam, warmed and strained
Instructions
- Whisk milk, sugar, and yeast in a bowl until sugar dissolves. Cover and let stand until yeast softens and begins to form a creamy foam, about 5 minutes.
- Sift flour, cinnamon, allspice, salt, and nutmeg in a large bowl. Rub in butter with your fingers until mixture resembles fine crumbs. Stir in raisins, eggs, and yeast mixture; mix until well combined.
- Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. Place dough in a large, lightly-oiled bowl and turn to coat. Cover with a towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 45 minutes.
- Knock back risen dough with your fist. Remove from the bowl and knead for 1 minute. Divide into 12 pieces and roll into buns.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease an 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Arrange buns neatly in the prepared baking dish. Cover with plastic wrap. Allow to rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.
- Whisk flour and water together in a small bowl to form a smooth paste. Transfer to a piping bag and carefully pipe a cross onto the top of each bun.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Continue baking until buns have risen and are golden in color, 15 minutes more. Remove from the oven and immediately brush with warmed apricot jam.
- Experiment by adding chocolate chips or chopped apple to your dough before shaping into buns. You could even soak the raisins overnight in some tea and add a little orange zest – the options are endless! If making chocolate chip buns, cut shallow crosses into the tops and trace with melted chocolate after baking.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 354 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 68 g |
| Cholesterol | 43 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 249 mg |
| Sugars | 21 g |
| Fat | 6 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Got an earlier version of this recipe in 2019 and have made every year since. I use mixed fruit as I love peel in my buns. Recipe never fails. Crowd pleaser in our house.
Turned out great and very delicious. I may like another recipe better than this, but I am definitely going to devour the pan. We skipped the cross part due to time, but it turned out well.