How To Make English Muffins Light Fluffy Inside Crispy Outside Best English Muffin Recipes

HOW TO MAKE ENGLISH MUFFINS. LIGHT & FLUFFY INSIDE, CRISPY OUTSIDE - BEST ENGLISH MUFFIN RECIPE.

Steps:

• Place the flour, salt, sugar, baking soda and yeast in the bowl of your food processor or stand mixer.
• Warm the milk and butter together until the butter melts, then whisk in the egg.
• Pour this mixture into the dry ingredients and run the processor or mixer until a dough comes together.
• Turn the dough out onto a well floured work surface and dust the top of the dough with flour as well.
• Knead the dough for 2 minutes, sprinkling with extra flour whenever it gets too sticky.
• Roll the dough out to a thickness of 1 inch or 25mm and using a cookie cutter, press out the muffins. Re-roll the off-cuts and continue pressing out muffins until all the dough is used. This recipe will make 12 to 14 muffins.
• Dust a large baking sheet with cornmeal, transfer the muffins to the sheet, then dust the tops of the muffins with cornmeal.
• Cover the muffins lightly with cling wrap and allow them to rise for 20 minutes in a warm place.
• Heat a heavy based pan over medium heat and cook the muffins for 3 to 5 minutes per side until browned and crisp.
• Return the muffins to the baking sheet and bake them in a preheated oven at 170c or 325f for 12 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and cool on wire racks. The muffins will keep for up to 2 weeks stored in an airtight container.

ENGLISH MUFFIN

Steps:

• In a 2 cup glass measuring cup, add buttermilk, and butter.
• Heat buttermilk mixture in microwave for 55 seconds or until butter is melted and mixture is approximately 100-110*F.
• If the mixture is too hot, mix and let cool until the correct temperature. Otherwise you'll kill your yeast.
• Once the mixture is at the correct temperature, add sugar and yeast. Mix well.
• Cover with a kitchen towel such as a tea towel and let rest for 5 minutes.
• In a stand mixer add flour and salt with a dough hook. Mix.
• Once the yeast mixture has sat for 5 minutes (it should be bubbly and poofy on top. That's how you know it's ready), Pour yeast mixture into flour and mix well.
• Once dough comes together, mix for an additional 5 minutes.
• Transfer kneaded dough into a bowl sprayed with cooking spray.
• Cover dough with plastic wrap.
• Place dough in a cold oven and turn the oven on to proof. If your oven doesn't have a proof button, then turn oven to 200*F. Once it reaches temperature, turn it off. Don't open the door.
• Let dough rise in the warm oven for 1 hour. Dough should be doubled in size.
• While dough is rising, prepare a baking sheet. Sprinkle ¼ cup of cornmeal over baking sheet, getting a nice but thin layer. Set aside.
• Once dough rises, remove from the oven.
• Flour a clean flat surface that you can use to roll out your dough.
• Gently tip the bowl over the floured surface and let it slide out.
• Sprinkle a little flour on top (dough will be sticky) and flour your rolling pin.
• Then gently roll out dough to ½ inch thick. If the dough is still sticky, use a little more flour.
• Once dough is rolled to ½ inch thick, using a cup, dip the cup in flour then use it to cut the dough out like you would with biscuits.
• Gently transfer each English muffin to the cornmeal baking sheet.
• Repeat with remaining dough, kneading leftover dough.
• Sprinkle a light layer of cornmeal on top of each English muffin.
• Cover with a tea towel and let rise for an additional hour. Muffins will almost double in height. This is the air pockets being formed.
• After 1 hour, Grab a clean skillet and put it on the stove.
• Heat DRY skillet over medium heat until nice and toasty.
• GENTLY transfer english muffins into the skillet. Do not let them touch. This will take several batches and will depend on the size of your skillet. You'll want to test one before doing them all as the timing is tricky.
• Cook each English muffin for 5-6 minutes then flip and cook the other side for 5-6 minutes. The dough in the middle will cook through.
• Remove from the skillet and place on a cooling rack to cool.
• Once FULLY cool, it's time to open!
• With English Muffins you NEVER USE A KNIFE.
• Take a fork and prick the outside edges around the muffin.On your last prick (after you've gone all the way around, gently lift up on your fork and separate the muffin into two pieces.