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Recipes with Nadia Coetzee - Nutritionist - Root Your Health Perth - GF,DF Hot-Cross Buns

GF,DF Hot-Cross Buns

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Prep

cooking

serves

15 min

45 min

12 buns

Ingredients

250 g GF Flour mix

 

150 g buckwheat flour

 

70 g coconut sugar

 

1 tsp salt

 

7g of fast-action dried yeast

 

1 tsp xanthan gum

 

225 ml Almond milk

 

80 ml Coconut oil

 

1 egg beaten

 

100g sultanas/blueberries/currants

 

30 g Chopped dried apricot (optional)

 

2 tsp Mixed spice

 

½ tsp Cinnamon

 

¼ tsp nutmeg

 

Paste for Crosses

 

50 g Gf flour mix

 

70 ml cold water

 

Syrup glaze

 

2 tbsp Honey

 

 

1 tbsp water

Method

1.     Sift the flour into a large bowl and the salt to one side of the bowl and the sugar, yeast and xanthan gum to the other. Make a well in the middle

 

2.     In a medium bowl add some water to sultanas and dried apricots to soak for a few minutes for extra juiciness and flavour.

 

3.     Heat the milk and oil together until melted and just warm. Pour the milk and the beaten eggs into the middle of the flour well. Use a fork to start bringing the dry ingredients into the wet and then use your hands to knead the dough lightly until everything is fully incorporated and you have a streak-free dough

 

4.     Put the dough in a large oiled bowl, cover with cling film and leave in a warm place (I pop mine in the airing cupboard) for an hour or until the dough has doubled in size

 

5.     Remove water from sultanas and apricots and add mixed spice, cinnamon and nutmeg to the bowl and mix into the dough. Cover again with cling film and leave in a warm place for 1 hour or until it has doubled in size

 

6.     Roll the dough into a long sausage and cut into 10 equal-sized portions. Gentle roll each portion into a ball. Place each ball of dough onto a large baking sheet lined with baking parchment, allowing room for spreading. Covering the buns with a clean tea towel and leave to prove for another 45 minutes to 1 hour

 

7.     Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7

 

8.     Make the cross paste by mixing the flour with water so that you can pipe with it. Spoon the paste into a piping bag and snip off the very tip. Pipe crosses onto each bun and pop them in the oven to bake for 15–20 minutes, or until the buns are golden brown

 

9.     Mix the honey and water, liberally glaze each bun and leave to cool.

 

10.  Enjoy hot or cold with suggested spreads or topping in notes below.

Notes

Serve toasted with either butter or favorite spread (chocolate nut butter and honey is one of my favorite), blueberry jam and coconut yogurt or goats cheese with a drizzle of honey.

Recipes with

Nadia Coetzee - Nutritionist - Root Your Health Perth Signature