zoom
  • Print A4 A5
    • Close

    Save to your scrapbook

    Blueberry and Ricotta Buns

    This will be saved to your scrapbook

    You can also add it to one of your existing cookbooks

    *mandatory

    Blueberry and Ricotta Buns

    Warm these delicious buns through briefly before serving to enjoy at their best.

    • Nut Free
    • Preparation time: 30 - 40 minutes plus proving
    • Cooking time: 15 minutes

    Makes: 12

    Ingredients

    • 2 large eggs, beaten
    • 100 g caster sugar
    • 425g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting
    • 7 g easy blend dried yeast
    • 75g slightly salted butter, melted
    • 250 g tub ricotta cheese
    • 50g Waitrose Cooks’ Ingredients Vanilla Sugar, plus 1 tbsp to sprinkle
    • 150g fresh blueberries (or use frozen, without defrosting)

    Method

    1. Mix the flour, yeast, butter, eggs and caster sugar in a bowl. Add 100-150ml hand hot water and mix to a soft but not too sticky dough. (If necessary, add a little more flour to make the mixture more manageable.) Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for about 10 minutes until smooth and elastic. Put in a lightly oiled bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave to rise in a warm place for 1-2 hours until the dough has doubled in size.
    2. Cut out 12 x 14cm squares of baking parchment. Mix the ricotta in a bowl with the vanilla sugar and 50g of the blueberries.
    3. Preheat the oven to 220C, gas mark 7. Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead in the remaining blueberries. Cut into 12 even-sized pieces. Flatten each piece down on the surface, stretching it until slightly larger than the palm of your hand. Spoon a little ricotta mixture into the centre of each piece of dough. Pull the edges of the dough up over the filling to enclose and pinch the edges together to make bundles. (Don’t worry about making them look neat!)
    4. Press a square of parchment into one section of a muffin or Yorkshire pudding tin and drop a bundle of dough into it. Repeat with the remainder then cover loosely with clingfilm and leave to rise in a warm place until risen to about half the size again.
    5. Bake the buns for 15 minutes, until golden. Lift onto a wire rack and sprinkle generously with the extra vanilla sugar. Serve warm or cold.

    Your recipe note

    Edit your recipe note

    Comments

    Average user rating

    5 stars

    Glossary