Dinner rolls are just perfect for soups or just to pass around the table, to eat with butter or just to dip in some olive oil as a pre dinner snack. And here is the perfect recipe for a super soft fluffy dinner roll.
As an Indian, the dinner roll ofcourse takes a whole new meaning. Yes, Pav. Pav Bread is used for the famous chaats of Mumbai like Pav Bhaji, Misal Pav, Vada Pav etc. Check out the recipes for all the chaats in my site. Hope you try some of them
If you are looking for a hard rolls (no they are not hard inside, harder shell and soft inside) for sandwiches, check out here.
Recipe from here
Ingredients
Bread Flour (Or All Purpose Flour) 420 gms to 480 gms (3.5 - 4 cups)
Instant Yeast 1.5 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Milk 1.5 cups
Butter 1.5 tbsp
Butter for Brushing 1 tbsp
Method of Preparation
1. Take the flour (420 gms - 3.5 cups), yeast, salt and sugar in a bowl. Mix well.
2. Warm the milk and butter together till it is warm and the butter melted. Mix well.
3. Add the milk to the bowl and knead well till it starts to come together. I use my stand mixer to do this. You can do by hand as well.
4. When it starts to pull together, add the extra flour as needed till you get a soft dough, just short of being sticky. I needed 3 tbsp of flour.
5. Shape into a neat round and place it in a well oiled bowl. Cover and let it rest till it is doubled in size (about an hour or 2).
6. Punch out the air and divide the dough into 15 equal portions. I find it easier just to weigh the dough and divide the weight by the number of pieces I want. Then divide each portion to that weight. I know it kind of sounds obsessive. But once you do 3-4 pieces you get an idea and you do not need to weigh and you get really uniform bake on the rolls.
7. Grease a 9*13 baking tray with some oil.
8. Shape each portion into a perfect round. Place it on the baking tray in a 5*3 rows and columns, fairly close to each other, but leaving a little space
9. Cover and let it rise till doubled. It will take another 30-45 min.
10. Preheat the oven to 220 C.
11. Bake the rolls for 10 min. The top would start to brown by now.
12. Take it out. Brush with the melted butter.
13. Bake for another 5 min till it is nicely browned on the top.
14. Let it cool on the tray for a few min and the cool on a wire rack.
Serving Suggestion - Check out the recipe for Bhaji here (coming soon). Its a popular Mumbai street food using this bread!
You are so right, laadi pav are the best for everything from chaats, pav bhaji to having on its own or with soup.
ReplyDeleteit is in my to-do list :) like pav buns with vegetable bhaji..
ReplyDeletei m a pav bhaji fan in and out and you are so tempting me with that platter!
ReplyDeleteLooks awesome Roshni...paavs and the bhaji, making me feel very hungry early in the morning
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