Garlic Bread Rolls

Ingredients:

• 1 cup water (just hotter than luke warm)
• 2 dessert spoons white sugar
• 2 dessert spoons yeast
• 5 (ish) cups bread mix
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp onion flakes or powder
• 2 tbsp melted butter
• 2 tsp garlic (powder or minced)
• 1 tsp mixed herbs
• sprinkle of grated cheese

Method:

Mix water, sugar and yeast and allow to prove. Once frothy, knead in 4 1/2 cups bread mix, eggs and onion powder. Mix in more bread mix as necessary to just stop it being sticky. Knead very thoroughly until beautifully smooth. Set aside somewhere warm until it doubles in size. Roll out like a pizza. Mix together butter and garlic and smear on dough. Sprinkle over herbs. Cut into 12 pieces (if you have a pizza wheel it makes life super easy) and roll each triangle up, stretching the end around and secure it underneath and pop on baking tray. Let sit to rise again for an hour (if its cold, maybe longer if it’s proper hot, maybe less). Sprinkle with a small amount of cheese (parmesan would be ideal but I was out so just used normal cheese). Bake at 180 deg cel until browned and cooked through.

The Ramblings:

Don’t be alarmed, these will rise a LOT in the oven! I was wanting really fluffy light rolls, hence the 2 eggs and fair bit of yeast. As much as I love the taste of oil or butter in bread creations, it can put a bit of a dampener on the rise. This is great for when you are doing scrolls or pull-aparts or the like, but for rolls, I prefer a lighter consistency so extra egg, yeast and oil in the after process (the garlic butter) is the go. PS, I LOVE the science of yeast, if you’re bored one day, it is worth reading up on, truly fascinating!

A very beautiful friend knew that I’ve been struggling a little lately so she refilled my container that I took the salted caramel apple crumble slice to town in, with her scrumptious beef and ale stew so I didn’t have to cook last night. I don’t have to feed the boys on Friday nights but I normally still have to cook dinner for Matt and I which is no drama really but a night off was heavenly. There is still a touch of stew left so I thought I would make these to have with it for lunch. Sometimes the best medicine in the whole world is a warm bowl full of love.