How to Make English Muffins - Easy English Muffins McDonalds Egg McMuffin Copy Cat Recipe
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor.
Today I am going to show you how to make English Muffins, mmm yummy.
I had a request to make a video on English Muffins, so here we go, that is what we are
going to do.
And I am going to follow that up with a nice little breakfast sandwich, something that
is similar to a McDonalds egg mcmuffin, really easy to do, if I can do it, you can do it.
Let's get started.
All right first let's go ahead and get our yeast started.
I have one half cup of water here, and I am going to add, oh about a little pinch of sugar,
I have one tablespoon of sugar here.
And then I am going to add one and a half tsp. of active dry yeast, go ahead and give
this a little mix, and I heated the water up in the microwave, for about 20 seconds,
you want the temperature of the water to be between 105 and 115 degrees.
And I am going to go ahead and let this set here, and let the yeast do its thing, it will
get all nice and foamy, now after about five to ten minutes if the yeast is not all foamy,
then you need to start again, either the water was too hot, not warm enough, or the yeast
is old or bad, alright so I am going to just let this sit right here, and then, I have
a half cup of milk, I scalded this in the microwave, took about 45 seconds, until the
point when it started to bubble, I am going to add the rest of the tablespoon of my sugar
to this milk, the reason why you want the milk really hot, is it is going to all the
sugar to dissolve nicely for us.
Now we are going to just let this sit and cool.
And then about half way until the yeast is ready, I am going to take my two tablespoons
of vegetable shortening, and I am going to melt this in the microwave, I am going to
start with 20 seconds and go from there, until I get this nice and melted.
All right my yeast is ready look how nice and foamy it is, I got my melted shortening,
I got my milk and sugar ready to go.
So now it is time to put the dough together.
I am going to go ahead and add my yeast mixture, I am going to add the milk and sugar, and
then add the shortening.
And now we are going to add about half of our 3 cups of flour, and then with a wooden
spoon let's just go in here and mix.
Okay great.
And now I am going to add half of what is left here, and then I am going to add a half
of teaspoon of salt.
And then you keep mixing until the dough starts to pull away from the sides.
And then now we need to start to hand knead.
Then I am going to go ahead and take the dough out of here, it will probably be a little
bit sticky here, add it to the table, and then the rest of my flour I am just going
to put it here, so I can use it while I am kneading.
And we want to knead for 8 minutes.
And so you just, take your dough, you push down, you fold over, a quarter turn, push,
and then you add more flour once it starts sticking to you.
Okay this is the basic way to knead.
If you have a kitchen aid mixer or something like that, go ahead and use that to knead
your dough.
All right once you are done kneading go ahead and put it, put your dough in a greased bowl,
I just sprayed this bowl with some canola spray, and then we are going to go ahead and
cover this with a damp towel.
And let the dough rise for an hour.
Once our time is up go ahead and check the dough, it has risen very nicely, we will go
ahead and punch it down, take it out, we will use a little bit of our extra flour that we
have, I wound up having about a fourth cup of flour, left over, it is important, not
to just throw in all of the 3 cups of flour, into your dough, because you may not need
it all.
Okay and we want to roll it out until it is about a half of an inch thick.
About like that, and then we are going to go ahead and take a cookie cutter, or a biscuit
cutter, and then on a baking sheet, I am going to grab some corn meal and dust the bottom,
we will take our rounds and go like that, and I am going to take the rest of this dough
right here and knead it together, and then we will roll it out, so here you go, and then
what you will do is you will take some more corn meal, and you will just dust the tops,
and then I am going to go ahead and cover this loosely with some plastic wrap.
And we are going to go ahead and let it rise for 30 more minutes.
Once our dough has risen again.
We will go ahead and remove the plastic wrap, now these are ready to go, let's take these
over to the stovetop and cook them up.
All right now with our stovetop set to medium, I am going to just give my pan a good spray
with some canola oil.
And now what we are going to do, is cook these up, so you just, take one and put them on
there, and these will take, somewhere between 6 and 10 minutes per side, so it really helps
if you have a nice long rectangular skillet, like you might use for like pancakes, so you
can get a lot of these done at a time.
After about 6 minutes I like to come in and check one, and that actually looks really
good, that is how you want it to look, just like that.
I am going to go ahead and turn the rest of these, and let these cook for another 6 to
7 minutes.
All right lets go ahead and check this other side, that looks great, really nice.
All right these are ready to go.
Now go ahead and put these on a plate, and then you can keep them in a warm oven, while
you cook the rest of them.
One thing to point out, if you make a fat one, you certainly can, see that compared
to this one, is after cooking both sides, put it in the oven at 350 degrees F. for about
5 minutes.
Now let's dig into one of these, in order to get the pockets, to see the cool little
pockets that are famous for these English muffins, you want to use a fork.
You can cut into these with a knife, but if you do, you won't get the pockets, they will
still taste really good, they will still taste the same, but to get the pockets, take a fork,
and we are going to poke in the middle all around.
Okay and then you come in here and just pull it apart.
Now for this copy cat McDonalds egg mcmuffin, I am going to go ahead, what I did is a I
toasted my English muffin, put some butter on it, I am going to put some cheese, bacon,
then put my egg on there, and there we go.
All right our homemade English muffins are done, they turned out amazing, really easy
to do, if I can do it, you can do it, you can serve them however you like, I got a breakfast
sandwich here, kind of like a McDonalds egg mcmuffin copy cat recipe, um you can serve
them with butter, honey, jelly, whatever you like to do, go out there and make your own.
I am Matt Taylor, this has been another episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, thank you for
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Time for me to dive into this guy, oh yeah, so excited, mmm, mmm, mmm.