Name: Campfire burger buns - excellent for outback burgers - Travel Spiced Life
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 5 buns
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 0.5 kg of flour; 1 packet of yeast; 1 tablespoon of sugar; 200 ml of water; 50 ml of milk; 1 egg; 30 g of melted butter; salt; sesame seeds (or other seeds of your choice); olive oil (to coat inside of Dutch oven)

We were heading to the most northern tip of Australia, and we stopped at The Bend, near Coen.

It was dinner time and I decided to make outback burgers. The first thing was to make delicious campfire burger buns for the burgers themselves.

Necessity is the mother of invention. Especially if you are in the middle of nowhere and burger buns are needed urgently!

Make sure to read How to make Outback Burgers here (part 2).

Get your campfire equipment with a huge discount

Dutch Oven – suitable for most campfire meals

Cast Iron Frying Pan – useful for any meal preparation

Campfire Cooking Gloves – to keep your hands safe

Prep time: 1,5 – 2 hours

Cook time: 15 -20 minutes

Servings: 5

Campfire Burger Buns – Ingredients

0.5 kg of flour
1 packet of yeast
1 tablespoon of sugar
200 ml of water
50 ml of milk
1 egg
30 g of melted butter
salt
sesame seeds (or other seeds of your choice)
olive oil (to coat inside of Dutch oven)

1. Prepare a bowl and mix milk, yeast, sugar, and salt. Slowly add water to the process.

Burger Buns - Ingridents — Burger Buns – Ingredients

2. Add egg and butter. It is much easier if butter is soft or melted, so I suggest, take the butter from the fridge and leave it in the sun to get it softer. If it is hot, you need just a few minutes.

Burger Buns - Mixing Ingridents — Burger Buns – Mixing Ingredients

3. Once combined, knead the dough for around 6-7 minutes and leave it for 30-60 minutes in a bowl covered with a kitchen towel or small cloth.

4. Once the dough doubles in size, divide the dough into 7 or 8 pieces and shape them into small balls.

Burger Buns - The dough balls are ready — Burger Buns – The dough balls are ready

5. Brush burger buns with melted butter and sprinkle some sesame seeds.

Burger Buns - sprinkle wi seasame — Burger Buns – sprinkle wi sesame

6. Insert trivet into Duch oven and sprinkle (or spray) some olive oil.

Burger Buns - Prepare dutch oven — Burger Buns – Prepare dutch oven

7. Leave buns for another 15 minutes to puff up again.

8. If you use a bigger Dutch oven – preheat. I use a small one and this step wasn’t necessary.

9. Insert buns into the oven, cover it with a lid, and set the dutch oven on hot charcoal, and cover the lid with charcoal as well for even temperature circulation.