Rosemary-Focaccia Chelsea-Buns

Name: Rosemary-Focaccia Chelsea-Buns
Yield: Makes 16 buns
Ingredients: 20 g skinned hazelnuts; 5 g fine sea salt; 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed; 3 sprigs fresh rosemary; 450 ml lukewarm water; 900 g 00 flour; 150 ml extra virgin olive oil; 25 g fresh yeast; 275 g of cold mashed potato; 10 g fine sea salt

Preparation info

Makes
16
buns

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls

By Graham Garrett and Cat Black

Published 2015

About

This is my idiot-proof recipe. I developed it when I was moving to chelsea to open christoph’s. I wanted a bread for there. Rather than bake it in a tray, we rolled it so it looked like a chelsea Bun. A Bread Roll for the ne chelsea opening

Ingredients

Rosemary pesto

3 sprigs fresh rosemary
1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
5

Bread
Vegan

Method

To make the pesto

Using a food processor, whiz all the rosemary leaves, garlic, salt and hazelnuts to a rough paste. Trickle in the olive oil until all incorporated. It should now look like a pesto. Chill it in the fridge until ready to use.

To make the dough

Mix the yeast with approximately