Jasmine's Basic Bread

This recipe is really easy and it always comes out nice and soft. The cheese retains the bread's softness and adds a lovely taste too. I use mozzarella but you can use any cheese you wish. You can have it plain for a dinner roll, fill it up with chocolate or extra cheese, or roll it up and make sausage buns. 

Ingredients:

1 cup milk

1/3 cup unsalted butter, room temp

7g rapid rise yeast

4 cups all purpose flour

1 cup mozzarella cheese

1/3 cup granulated sugar

3 egg yolks

1 tsp salt

Method:

1. Warm milk and butter until butter melts up to 50 deg C. Sprinkle yeast on top and let sit for about 5 mins.

2. To the yeast mixture, add flour, half of the cheese, sugar, egg yolks and salt. Mix until all incorporated and becomes a nice dough. Add a bit of milk if dough is too dry. It should nice pull apart. Form into a ball. 

3. Lightly grease a bowl and place dough in it. Cover and let raise until double in size (around 1.5-2 hrs).

4. Place dough on a lightly floured work surface, deflate and knead 2-3 times. Cut into 24 equal pieces (or 12, 16, 18 depending on your preference). At this point you can fill them if you wish. 

5. Place on buttered baking dish, cover with plastic wrap and let sit for an hour. 

6. Brush buns with egg yolk wash and place in 190 degC oven until golden brown. 

7. Remove from oven and immediately brush with melted butter.