Chocolate, pistachio and cardamom buns
INGREDIENTS
-360 g strong flour (00, supermarket bread flour)
-50 g light brown sugar
-100 g butter (cold butter, cubed).
-2 eggs + 1 egg to brush.
-120 g milk.
-15 g fresh yeast (5 g bread instant yeast).
-100 g dark chocolate.
-50 g pistachio.
-1 teaspoon salt.
-5 cardamom pods, seeds removed and crushed (or 1 tsp ground cardamom).
-2 teaspoons orange zest.
Icing:
-100 g confectioner’s sugar
-1,5/2 tablespoons orange juice.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Firts, crush the pistachios and mix all dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, cardamom and orange zest. Now is the moment to add the yeast if we use fresh yeast.
2. If you use dry yeast dissolve it on warm milk and let it rest for some minutes.
3. Start kneading and add, one by one, the eggs and milk to the dry ingredients. You will have a sticky dough.
4. Add the cold butter little by little without stop kneadning until it incorporates into the dough.
5. When you have a nice dough add the chocolate and form a ball, let it rest for 2 hours into the fridge covered with plastic film.
6. Prepare the molds you will use to bake your chocolate pistachio and cardamom buns.
7. Take out the dough from the fridge and knead it gently you dough and divide it into 10-12 pieces. At this moment you can use some flour or oil on your hands to work with the sticky dough.
8. Place the portions with ball shape into the mold with some separation to let them rise and let them rest again for 1 hour covered, at room temperature (or overnight into the fridge if you prefer to bake them the day after).
9. Preheat your oven 180º C and brush the buns with egg.
10. Bake them for 10-15 minutes, it will depends on your oven.
11. Let them cool on a rack.
12. If you want you can prepare a sugar icing mixing the confectioner’s sugar with orange juice. You can decorate them too with some crushed pistachios.
You can freeze your already baked buns and enjoy them on any moment.
If you use cardamom ponds to bake this recipe you will have to remove the seeds and crush them before baking your buns.
If you have any doubts about dark light sugar you can revise the Chocolate Chip Cookies recipe.