Pumpkin Mini Buns

How about some pumpkin buns filled with a spicy potato filling? Just go through the recipe and try it out 🙂 

Ingredients:

• Whole wheat flour 250 gm
• Semolina 50 gm
• Salt to taste
• Chilli flakes 1 tsp
• Instant yeast 1/2-3/4 tsp
• Sugar 1 tsp
• Olive oil 1-2 tbsp
• Pumpkin 200 gm
• Water 100 ml or as required
• Turmeric powder a pinch
• Sesame seeds as required
• Any spicy filling of your choice

Method:

• Peel the skin and cut the pumpkin into big chunks.
• Cook it with little salt and turmeric powder till it is tender. 
• Remove from heat and cool. Blend it in a mixer to get a smooth puree.
• Prepare any veg or non veg filling of your choice. You can use minced meat or potato or any other vegetables and prepare a dry mixture and keep it ready. I have used a spicy filling of boiled potatoes and onion.

• Mix the flour, salt (if required, since the pumpkin puree already contains salt), sugar, chilli flakes and yeast in a large bowl. Add the pumpkin puree to it and mix.
• Sprinkle water if necessary and knead for atleast 10-12 minutes into a soft and elastic dough. 
• Allow the dough to double in volume in a nicely oiled bowl covered with a clean cling film.
• Once the dough is doubled in size, punch out the gases and knead again for 1-2 minutes.
• Divide the dough into small lemon size balls and flatten them in your palm.

• Take a flattened dough and fill it with the stuffing. 
• Place it in a greased cake tin. Repeat with the entire dough.

• Cover and allow it to proof again for 20-25 times till it fills the tin completely and puffs up well. Now sprinkle some sesame seeds on top. 
• Divide the remaining dough into 3-4 big balls of equal weight.
• Fill it with the filling and shape into round buns. Make cuts as shown below. Do not make very deep cuts. (I did that mistake and my pumpkins opened up a lot while baking.)

• Meanwhile preheat the oven at 180 degree Celsius for 10-12 minutes.
• Bake these mini buns and small stuffed pumpkin breads for 25-30 minutes or till the top looks golden in colour.
• Remove from the oven and apply some butter on top.
• Cool for a while and serve it warm with a soup of your choice.