By Sanjeev Kapoor
Blueberry Cream Cheese Buns
About the Dish
A fresh, light, and flavorful roll packed with crunchy vegetables, herbs, noodles, and USA Blueberries, served with USA Blueberry sauce. Perfect as an appetizer, light lunch, or innovative plated snack.
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- ½ cup blueberry compote + to drizzle
- Dough
- 125 grams refined flour (maida)
- ½ tbsp instant dry yeast
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tbsp + ½ tsp castor sugar
- 1 tbsps milk powder
- ¾ tbsps butter + for greasing
- Milk wash as required
- Cream Cheese Mixture
- 100 grams cream cheese
- ¼ tsp dried mixed herbs
- A pinch of salt
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- Garlic Butter Mixture
- 50 grams butter, melted
- ¾ tbsp chopped garlic
Method
- To make the dough, mix refined flour, instant dry yeast, salt, castor sugar and milk powder in a bowl.
- Add 65-70 ml water gradually and knead for 10 minutes to soft dough.
- Add butter and knead again.
- Dust some refined flour on the surface and transfer the dough. Roll into a ball and transfer in bowl.
- Cover with a moist muslin cloth and set aside for 1 hour.
- Divide the dough into 4 equal portions and roll into balls. Grease a baking tray with some butter and arrange the rolled balls on it. Cover with moist muslin cloth and set aside in warm place for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven at 180°C. Apply milk on buns and bake for 12 minutes. Allow to cool.
- Meanwhile mix cream cheese, dried mixed herbs, salt and garlic powder in a bowl. Transfer in a piping bag. Mix butter and garlic in a bowl. Transfer the blueberry compote in a piping bag.
- Slit the buns into 8 parts without cutting through and pipe the cream cheese mixture and some blueberry compote in the gaps.
- Brush garlic butter on top and drizzle some more blueberry compote on top.
- Bake for 3-4 minutes and serve.
Blueberries have been a part of North American food and medicine traditions for centuries.