Baked Rosemary Potato Rolls
Another one of those rolls, please! They rock! They’ll be saying after they take a bite of these rosemary potato rolls.
Makes: 25 pieces
INGREDIENTS
For Dough
1 cup / 160 g all purpose flour
1 tsp / 5g instant dry yeast
1 tsp brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
75ml warm water
25 ml milk (room temperature)
1 tbsp melted butter
For the filling
2 large boiled and mashed potatoes
1/2 finely chopped onion
1/2 finely chopped green chili
1 tp chili flakes
1/2 inch grated ginger
1 tsp dried rosemary herb
1 tsp oil
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp black pepper (crushed)
Sesame seeds
Method
Sieve all purpose flour and add salt to it.
Add sugar to warm water, add yeast and let it bloom for 5 minutes.
Knead the flour with the yeast mixture and milk and make a smooth dough. Add butter and knead again and keep it covered for 1 hour to double till your prepare the filling.
Let’s move onto the filling now. Heat oil in a wok and add onion, ginger, chili and fry onions until they are translucent and pink. Add mashed potatoes, salt, pepper, chili flakes and dried rosemary. Mix it well with the help of the a potato masher. Cool and make 25 small balls from this mixture.
Knead the dough once again and divide into 2 parts.
Roll one part of the dough into a big round tortilla with the help of a rolling pin. Cut out small circles from it using a small round cutter or lid.
Mix all the extra side dough with the remaining dough and knead and roll again, repeating step 6 and 7 till all the dough is used up. Ensure that the circles are not too thin or too thick. Somewhere in between and it will be just right.
Take one round piece and make 4 small cuts, diagonally opposite to each other. Place one ball of potato mixture in the centre and cover it by lifting one flap and then the opposite flap over it. Repeat for the other two flaps, creating a nice shape looking like a flower. (See photo illustration below)
Leave the centre free and open as when baked, the mixture will partially come up to the top.
Brush butter on all rolls and sprinkle sesame seeds in the centre over the mixture.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes till golden brown and you see filling has oozed out to the top.
Serve hot with your favourite dipping sauce .
HELPFUL TIPS
Rosemary can be substituted for other herbs such as oregano.
You can replace the filling with another filling of your choice. Do not use tomatoes in any filling otherwise rolls will become soggy when baked.