Rav Gill hot cross buns with tea soaked raisins and apricot jam recipe on Saturday Kitchen

Rav Gill served up delicious hot cross buns with tea soaked raisins and apricot jam on Saturday Kitchen.

The ingredients for the dough are: 180ml full-fat milk, 400g strong white flour, plus extra for dusting, 1½ tsp salt flakes, 50g caster sugar, 7g fast-action dried yeast, 2 free-range eggs, 50g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra to serve if desired, 20g mixed peel (optional), 1 lemon, finely grated zest only, 2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tsp ground allspice and neutral oil, such as vegetable oil for greasing the bowl.

For the raisin mixture: 150g raisins, 2 tea bags (any black tea, such as rooibos)
1 cinnamon stick.

For the crosses: 60g plain flour, 1 tbsp icing sugar, 4 tbsp full-fat milk and 2 tbsp apricot jam, beaten, to glaze.




See recipes by Rav in her book titled: Baking for Pleasure: The new sweet and savoury cookbook available from Amazon now.

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