Ingredients
For the bread dough
500 g Flour
2 Tablsp Sugar
50 gms Margarine
1 tablsp yeast
2 tsp lime juice/vinegar
2 tsp salt
1 1/3 cup lukewarm water
For the fish filling
Boiled fish or tin fish
1 Onion
3 Potatoes
2 Green chillies
a piece of Pandan leaves
a sprig of Curry Leaves
2 pips Garlic
Chili flakes to taste
salt and pepper to taste
A little oil for tempering
Egg yolk and a little water for egg wash
Method for the dough
Take a big bowl, add the flour, sugar, yeast and mix well. Then add the salt, margarine and lime juice, then mix together, add 1 cup of lukewarm water and mix with your hand. Then add the balance 1/3 cup of lukewarm water and mix well around 15 mts. If you have an electric mixer use the dough hook. Take another big bowl butter it nicely and put in the dough and cover with cling foil and keep in a warm place till well risen for 45 minutes.
Photos:
dough mixed by hand, put into oiled bowl and covered with cling film, dough kept to rise, risen after 45 minutes, 8 balls of 100 gms each
For fish filling
In the meantime make the filling for the buns.
Boil fish with salt, pepper, turmeric, lime juice and water, then drain and lightly mash. Chop the onion finely. Boil the potatoes and mash them, chop the green chillies, crush the garlic.
Add the oil into a pan and temper the onions, chilli, Pandan leaf, garlic, curry leaves, then add in the fish and lastly add in the potatoes. Add chilli flakes. Fry and keep aside.
photo of items for mixture and photo of fried filling
To make the fish buns
Take the risen dough onto a floured board, flatten out and cut pieces of around 100 gms if you want it all the same weight and size. Then flatten out or roll out with rolling pin into a circle, place 2 tablespoons of fish filling, then bring in the edges and pinch together to seal the base in the shape of a triangle.
After all the buns are made lay it on an oil paper in a baking tray and rub egg wash on each, Egg wash is egg yolk beaten with a little water.
Heat oven to 220°C before shaping the fish buns. Bake between 20-30 minutes till risen and golden in colour.
Pictures show:
bread dough ball rolled out to a circle, stuffing place in centre, dough folded over filling,
triangle shaped, bread rolls rubbed with egg wash and the last photo -inside cooked bread bun.