Bürli

By admin 2/28/2026

Ingredients

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  • ### Predough
  • 200 g White flour (Type 550, Bread- or all purpose flour)
  • 1 g fresh yeast
  • 170 ml water
  • ### Ingredients main dough
  • 800 g White flour (Type 550, Bread- or all purpose flour)
  • 25 g Salt
  • 20 g fresh yeast
  • 600 ml water
  • 20 g diastatic malt powder (optional, 🇩🇪Backmalz)

Instructions

  1. Put all ingredients to a bowl and knead it until you have a smooth dough

  2. Let the dough rest for 1 to maximally 5 hours at 20 degrees

  3. Put the pre dough together with all the other ingredients to a bowl and knead for approximately 15 to 20 minutes.

  4. Put the dough in a oiled bowl and let it rest for one hour.

  5. Fold the dough and put it back to the bowl.

  6. Wait for another hour, fold it and repeat one more time - totaling three hours of waiting.

  7. Put the dough on a surface with flour and split it into 12 equal parts, roughly 150g each.

  8. Form those pieces into small buns, stretching the surface to increase the surface tension for a nice crust. Put four of them together into a small circle.

  9. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees and wait roughly 20 minutes. Then put the Bürli into the oven. After 5 minutes turn the heat down to 220 degrees. After 10 further minutes, the Bürli are done.

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