Soft buns with Grana Padano, soft and tasty, extremely easy to prepare in your home oven. These buns are excellent for stuffing or accompanying with cheeses, cold cuts, and vegetable jams for your aperitifs or appetizers either at home or for a nice picnic outdoors.

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Difficulty: Easy
Cost: Economical
Rest time: 4 Hours
Preparation time: 30 Minutes
Portions: 8 buns
Cooking methods: Oven
Cuisine: Italian

Ingredients

4 cups all-purpose flour
0.42 oz fresh brewer's yeast
1 tsp sugar
0.25 oz salt
1.3 cups water (at room temperature)
7 oz Grated Grana Padano

Tools

1 Stand Mixer
1 Grater

Preparing Grana Padano Buns

Pour the flour into the stand mixer’s bowl, add the Grana Padano and give a quick stir with a spoon.
Add the crumbled brewer’s yeast and sugar. Start the mixer and pour about 2/3 of the water. Knead until the water is fully absorbed by the flour.
Now stop the mixer, add the salt and the remaining water. Knead until you get a smooth and homogeneous dough.
Remove the dough from the mixer and knead it by hand for a couple of minutes. Place the dough in a bowl covered with a cloth and let it rise for 2 hours at room temperature.
After the two-hour rise, divide the dough into eight equal parts and form well-closed balls underneath. Place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving some space between each other as they will rise again. Make small cuts on the surface (2 or 3), cover with the cloth and let rise for another 2 hours.
After the last two hours of rising, bake in a preheated oven at 356°F for 30/35 min.
Take your Grana Padano buns out of the oven and let them rest for 10 minutes before serving.
And voila… now your soft Grana Padano buns are ready to be enjoyed.