Today we’re sharing a recipe for Onion Hamburger Buns. They’re soft, airy, and make the perfect hamburger buns, sandwich rolls or slider buns. When you can have delicious homemade onion buns in a couple of hours start to finish, you won’t buy store buns again.
All about Onion Hamburger Buns
These buns have incredible onion flavor and have quickly become everyone’s favorite. It’s a simple addition of the onion to our hamburger bun recipe that took these buns over the top. They’re so delicious and can be used for burgers, sandwiches or just as a roll.
This recipe is versatile in that you can easily substitute the oil in the recipe for butter, shortening, or the oil of your choice. The other great thing is that you can easily substitute other flours to make this recipe your own. We’ve made whole wheat hamburger buns by doing half whole wheat and half hall-purpose flour and they turn out awesome.
The other great thing is that you can make any size hamburger buns you need. If you want large hamburger buns, or medium sized hamburger buns, or small hamburger buns. We find it works great to make a few larger buns and then the rest medium sized buns as they’re better for children or people with smaller appetites. You can easily make slider buns or sandwich/deli type rolls too.
If you’re short on time you can also make this hamburger bun dough in your bread machine. Simply add the ingredients to your bread machine and use the dough cycle. Once the dough is complete, you’ll remove and shape the dough into your desired hamburger size. Then you’ll let them rise and bake just like the original recipe.
You can also make and freeze these hamburger buns unbaked if you want to make batch ahead of time. You simply flash freeze your hamburger buns after you’ve shaped them into buns. Once they are frozen you can transfer them to a freezer bag where they will keep for 2 months. After this recommended time the yeast can lose its rising power. When you decide to bake them, simply let them proof in the oven, thaw overnight or at room temperature until they’ve tripled in size and ready for baking.
Onion Hamburger Buns
These Onion Hamburger Buns are soft, airy, have great onion flavor and get those classic wrinkled signature marks. Don't buy grocery store buns again!
Ingredients
Dough
- 1 cup warm water
- 2 tbsp dry yeast
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp dry minced onion
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup avocado oil
- 3 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
Topping
- 1 tbsp dry minced onion
- 2 tsp avocado oil
- 2 tbsp milk
Instructions
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In a large mixing bowl, or stand mixer, dissolve the yeast in warm water. Whisk in the sugar, salt, minced onion, egg, and oil. Stir in the flour and knead for 7 minutes. Let rise for 30 minutes or until doubled.
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In a small bowl, add 1 tablespoon of dry minced onion and cover with water to rehydrate. Set aside until you are shaping your buns.
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Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces for large buns, 12 for small buns, and 16 for slider buns. Shape and place buns onto a cookie sheet about 2 inches apart.
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Drain the water from the minced onions. Add 2 teaspoons of oil and mix with the hydrated onions.
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Brush each hamburger bun with milk and then add a spoonful of the hydrated onion and oil mixture on top of each bun. Press the onion mixture gently on top of each bun.
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Let the buns rise on the cookie sheet until tripled in size or the size of the hamburger buns you want.
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Bake at 350 degrees F for 12-16 minutes on the middle or lower rack in your oven. Remove the buns when you achieve the level of golden brown you're after.
How long do Onion Hamburger Buns keep?
These hamburger buns keep like any buns for several days in an airtight container but you’ll then want to transfer them to the refrigerator or freezer for longer storage.
We’d love to hear what you think about this recipe. What is your favorite food to have on hamburger buns? Let us know in the comments below. Thank you for visiting Sunup to Sundown! Please subscribe, like or share this post with others who could benefit from it.
