Spelt Burger Buns: Soft, Supple and Vegan
Everyone needs a good burger bun recipe up there sleeve. Summer is finally here and BBQs are being dusted off and made ready for the season of outdoor cuisine. Don’t ruin your burgers by serving them in pappy commercial buns. Homemade isn’t as difficult as you might think. This recipe for wholemeal spelt burger buns produces soft, supple but wholesome vegan baps.
Spelt Burger Buns
When I made pulled jackfruit last week, I wanted to serve it with salad in burger buns. Whilst I can buy good sourdough bread here in Liskeard, anything else is pretty much a no no. There was nothing for it but to make my own.
These wholemeal spelt burger buns have a secret ingredient which gives them a delightfully soft texture. Not something always associated with wholemeal bread. They aren’t fluffy exactly, but they are exceedingly delicious.
The buns are suitable for most diets. I used coconut oil rather than butter or lard and water instead of milk to make them vegan.
Spelt flour is low in gluten and more easily digested than modern wheats. This combined with a slow rise should ease their effect on the alimentary canal. Spelt flour doesn’t require a lot of kneading, so they are relatively easy to make.
These buns, it turned out, made the perfect accompaniment to the pulled jackfruit in homemade barbecue sauce. They are, however, also very good with veggie burgers, cheese and pickle or spread with your favourite nut butter. For further ideas, do take a look at my other recipes for bread and buns.
Soft Burger Buns With Potato
Yes, potato is the secret ingredient in these spelt burger buns. Milk is the classic ingredient used to make bread soft, but I wanted these buns to be dairy free and vegan.
Wholemeal bread is my favourite kind of bread, but it’s often chewy rather than soft. Potato has a remarkable softening property and it works wonderfully in this recipe.
Healthy Burger Buns With Linseeds
Adding a few soaked linseeds to bread is a tip I picked up a few years ago. The linseeds soak up water and form a gelatinous mass. This helps to create the soft and supple texture of these spelt burger buns. Linseeds also add omega 3, protein and a whole heap of other beneficial nutrients.
Other Bread Recipes You Might Like
- Cheese baps
- Malted wholemeal & rye loaf
- No knead spelt bread
- Portuguese bread
- Rye sourdough bread
- Whole wheat focaccia
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Spelt Burger Buns
Ingredients
- 3 tsp dried active yeast
- 300 ml warm water
- 1 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tsp coconut sugar or other unrefined sugar
- 1 tbsp linseeds (flaxseeds)
- 500 g wholemeal spelt flour
- 1 medium potato (about 150g (5oz)) – boiled and mashed with skin on
- 1 tsp sea salt
- whole sesame seeds for sprinkling
Instructions
- Mix 100 ml water (make sure it’s only luke warm) with the yeast, coconut oil and sugar. Place in a mixing bowl and leave for 15 minutes.3 tsp dried active yeast, 300 ml warm water, 1 tbsp coconut oil, 1 tsp coconut sugar
- Add the linseeds to the rest of the water and leave to soak.1 tbsp linseeds (flaxseeds)
- Add the flour to the bowl along with the, potato, salt, linseeds and water. Mix then knead for 5 minutes (I used an electric mixer).500 g wholemeal spelt flour, 1 medium potato, 1 tsp sea salt
- Divide into 12 pieces and roll into balls.
- Place on a baking tray, cover with a plastic bag or tea towel and leave to rise until doubled in size.
- Brush with a little water and sprinkle some sesame seeds over the tops.whole sesame seeds for sprinkling
- Bake at 200C for 15-20 minutes or until the buns are golden and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom.
- Place on a wire rack to cool.
Notes
Nutrition Estimate
Sharing
I’m sending these spelt burger buns off to #BakeoftheWeek with Mummy Mishaps and Casa Costello. They also go to One Potato, Two Potato with Utterly Scrummy Food for Families and Family Friends Food.
Hi. I want to try this recipe but I noticed you don’t allow the dough to rise after rolling them in to buns, I always thought the dough has to rise first then again when rolled in buns. Can you please let me know?
Thank you
Hi Zehra – the recipe is correct. The dough only needs to rise once you’ve rolled it into balls. Spelt flour behaves differently to ordinary white flour. Having said that I haven’t actually tried a first proving to compare. In theory two provings give a lighter result.
I have no idea if you still respond to these comments. I’m wondering if you have an estimate for the number of grams in a “medium” potato. Thanks!
Hi Luke. Thanks for the question, I always respond to comments, though I can’t always respond super quickly. I’ve just weighed what I call a medium sized potato and it’s nearly 150g. I’ll amend the recipe to reflect weight.
These sound so good and not too scary to make!
No, not at all scary to make – really. Do give them a go.
These spelt burger buns were delicious. I love how much healthier they are for you. I just had it with black bean burgers but may have to try them with your pulled jackfruit recipe next.
Mmmm, but black bean burgers are so good too. Glad you liked the burgers and thanks for letting me know.
Wow, I’ve never used spelt before! They make such nutritious buns! I don’t like buying prepackaged so it’s nice to have an easy and healthy recipe on hand. Homemade and fresh is definitely the way to go. Thanks for the recipe!
Spelt flour is so much kinder on the gut than normal wheat flours and it creates a nice yeasted bun too. Do give them a try.
I look forward to trying these wholesome buns made with spelt flour and potato, they look and sound amazing! I never would have guessed the secret ingredient!
Hahaha, it’s not that obvious, but it makes a surprising difference. Hope you like them.
Love the spelt flavor of these burger buns. They were so delicious!
Yay, so pleased you liked them Kayla. Spelt really does give a good flavour.
I’m making burgers tonight and these buns look perfect! Thanks so much for the recipe!
I hope you liked Crystal. They’re a firm favourite with us.
Hello ! Thanks for the recipe, it’s surpringly hard to find a wholewheat recipe to make burger buns. How long did you let them rise. It’s been 2h00 already and it’s very slow… I am hesitating to let it rise the whole night. Also thinking about a sourdough version, do you think it would work?
Hi Adrien
Sorry, this is probably a bit late for you now. Rising time will completely depend on the heat of your flour, the freshness of your yeast and the quality of your flour, so it’s very difficult to give a time. I have a fairly cool house and bread normally takes a few hours to rise, but I made those ones in summer so I think they’d probably risen within a couple of hours. If bread is taking too long to rise and you want to go to bed, put them in the fridge overnight and they should rise slowly enough that they’d be ready for baking in the morning. As for a sourdough version, I haven’t tried it, but I’d have to say, give it a go.
Luvly buns. Very interesting to add potato. It’s good to have a good burger bun recipe.
Thanks Chris. The potato helps to make the buns nice and soft.
They look stunning and so beautifully baked
Thanks Kat. They work really well as burger buns as well as for holding the jackfruit 🙂
Any type of homemade bread just wins the meal, eh? Delish!
This is very true Rebecca – unless it’s one of the loaves I forgot about in the oven 😉
Your spelt burger buns look brilliant, I have still along way to go to get comfortable cooking with spelt. Will bookmark and try this recipe.
Thanks Nayna. I was brought up baking with wholemeal flour. I’m lucky in that respect.
oooh these buns look lovely . Such an even bake and all of them look the same size too. I love the addition of a potato to your dough too.
Thank you for linking up to #Bakeoftheweek x
Thanks Jenny. The potato definitely helps to make the buns softer.
These look delicious – you’ve convinced me I finally need to go buy some spelt flour and try it out!
Spelt flour is my all time favourite and it’s even better for us than ordinary wholemeal.
Those buns look so good in those pictures. Definitely going to try making it this weekend. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks Jessi. I hope you enjoy them AND get good weather too.
I really like this recipe, I love using spelt and using potato to make them soft and vegan is great.
Thanks Kath. I’m glad you like it. I was really pleased with the outcome. I used to add potato to bread years ago, but had sort of forgotten about it – until now!
I love the rustic look of these whole spelt buns and they look very soft!
Thanks Angie. My wholemeal rolls always look rustic, but luckily I like rustic 🙂
oooh, I do love a nice bun! These look delicious. I’ve rarely baked wit spelt but I must try it. Love the added potato too. Great work. x
Spelt is my favourite wholemeal flour. It produces fabulous bread and the potato really works to make them a bit softer. Give em a go.
Beautiful buns! I agree, making homemade buns is always worth the (very small) effort involved – these look delicious and vegan too, hoorah!
True, the effort is not nearly as huge as one might think, but I do sometimes need to remind myself of this 🙂