No-Knead Microwave Buns in 1.5 hours

Yield: 4 buns

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 125 g milk
• 15 g butter, chopped
• 1 tsp dry yeast
• 20 g brown sugar
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 200 g All-purpose flour
• 1/8 to 1/4 tsp olive oil
• 1 tsp raw sesame seeds (optional)
• 1/2 tsp water

Directions

1. In a small bowl, beat egg.
2. In a microwavable bowl, mix 30 g of beaten egg and milk, and microwave for 1 minute at power 7/10 for a 1200-watt microwave. Set the remainder of the egg aside.
3. Add butter and stir to melt with a pair of chop sticks (or a whisk). If butter will not melt, microwave just enough to soften.
4. Make sure if the liquid temperature is around 37 C (99 F). Add dry yeast and sugar and mix well. Let it sit for a minute.
5. Dissolve salt, then add flour. Mix well with chop sticks.
6. Mix to make a lump with a silicon spatula. 
7. Coat a baker's mat with flour and place the dough onto it. Divide the dough into fourths and round each piece of dough.
8. Loosely place a plastic sheet on the dough to keep the dough moist. Leave it out for 10 minutes.
9. Heat up the oven at the warm setting at 60 C for 5 minutes.
10. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper.
11. Punch the dough softly to let gas out, then round the dough and place onto the baking sheet.
12. Spray water on the surface of dough and place the baking sheet in the pre-heated oven. Make sure the oven is about 40 C (104 F).
13. Let the dough rise for 30 to 40 minutes, and doubling in volume. Check the temperature of the oven around 37 C (99 F), and heat up the oven at 50 C for 1 minute at a time if the temperature is too low.
14. When the dough rises and double in volume, take out the baking sheet and start pre-heating the oven to 200 C (390 F).
15. Add 1/2 tsp water and olive oil to the remaining beaten egg and mix.
16. Gently apply the egg mixture to the surface of the dough thinly with a brush taking care not to disturb the surface of the dough. Sprinkle with sesame seeds.
17. Place the baking sheet in the oven and reduce the temperature to 180 C, turning off the convection setting, and bake for 15 minutes.