📋 Homemade English Muffins

You can buy ready made English muffins, but if you make them fresh at home you will never go back to the bought ones. To ease the work, you can make the dough in the bread machine

Course Brunch

Cuisine British

Keyword breakfast, homemade, rolls

Prep Time 3

Cook Time 15

Total Time 4 15

Servings Rolls

Calories 353kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

Dough

1 cup milk
1 tablespoon melted butter
2 cup flour
1 tablespoon caster sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 pkg yeast (2 tsp)

Grilling

2 tablespoon butter

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Making the dough with a bread machine

Mix all the wet ingredients: butter and milk
1 cup milk, 1 tablespoon melted butter
Mix all the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, salt, and yeast
2 cup flour, 1 tablespoon caster sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 pkg yeast
Pour the ingredients into the machine and set the program for dough, no cooking.

Making the dough by hand or with an electric mixer

If you don't have a bread machine, you can find detailed instructions to make the dough by hand or with an electric mixer in this article: Brioche & Bread Rolls' dough without a bread machine

Getting ready for the griddle

Once the dough is ready prepare the griddle
Prepare all the tools you need while the griddle is heating on the fire. You need a 4 in - 10 cm ring, a brush for the butter, 20 gr of butter slightly warm, the spatula to flip the muffin, Kitchen gloves for high temperature.
2 tablespoon butter
Once the griddle is hot, you are ready to proceed.

Cooking the muffins

Butter the griddle
Butter well the inside of the rings with the brush
Place the rings on the hot griddle
With a large spoon pour the dough inside the 4 rings equally
You don’t need to smooth the top of the dough as the muffins will fill the mold as they rise while cooking.
Cover the top and let it cook for at least 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, check the base to see if it is brown and the muffins hold their shape. If they do, open the moulds and remove them
Turn the muffins on the other side
Lower the heat in the griddle, and cook the muffins covered for a further 7 to 10 minutes. You need to ensure that the griddle is not too hot; otherwise it will burn the outside of the muffins.
Serve warm with butter and jam or with egg and bacon

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Notes

A VERY IMPORTANT POINT TO REMEMBER: when using the bread machine the ingredients should be placed in the exact order as listed above, liquids first.
It is important that the griddle is not too hot to burn the muffins and not too low otherwise the muffins will not cook properly inside.

Making sure the muffins are cooked

To be sure the muffins are cooked inside, insert a pin inside the muffins; if they are done, it should come out clean. If there is still fresh dough attached they need to cook longer.
If you need to cook the muffins longer but the outside is getting burned, put them in the oven at 355 F - 180 C.
Once you make them a couple of times, you will find out the best setting for your stove
When they are done, let the muffins rest for a few minutes as they will be easier to cut.
With the Weber barbecue, it is easier to balance the heat between the griddle and the oven, a thermometer attached to the cover indicates the temperature inside the oven.
As I usually serve an Irish breakfast with my muffins, and with a Weber barbecue I can cook the sausages and the vegetables on the same griddle and keep them warm

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