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Ukrainian Garlic Herb Dinner Rolls

Judith Hannemann — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 00:00:54 +0000

Ukrainian garlic herb dinner rolls are perfect for your holiday table.

Ukrainian Garlic Herb Dinner Rolls

These rolls wear many hats. Since they’re easy to make, you can change up flavors pretty easily.

Keeping with tradition, dill is the preferred herb here. It’s immensely popular in this part of the world so using it would be quite authentic.

However, I know a few people who really don’t care for it and changing it to something everyone likes presents no real problem. Basil would be an excellent choice instead of dill. Parsley is pretty much neutral with most folks so even just using only that wouldn’t affect the quality.

Easy Yeast Dough

The dough for these rolls is pretty easy. As with any yeast dough, there’s always the time investment of waiting for it to rise.

It will take about an hour for it to rise and with all yeast doughs, it must have a warm and draft-free place to rise. Since I live in a pretty old house, it can be drafty at times so I found a way to insure success with rising dough.

What I do is use my oven. If you have an older stove with a standing pilot light, then it’s the perfect temperature. Just set your covered bowl in it and Bob’s your uncle so they say.

However, now most gas stoves have electronic ignition and this method is also great if you have an electric stove or dual-fuel range as I have. You turn on your oven to 400F/200C then as soon as it ignites, shut it off. Then put your covered bowl with the dough in the oven and shut the door. Using a bowl filled with hot water on the rack below the dough also aids with rising because it creates a bit of humidity. I don’t find this necessary, but you may want to try it.

The Herb Oil

I would suggest making this before you start making the dough–it’s not really necessary, but nice.

The reason is that the longer the oil steeps, the better it tastes

The Recipe

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Ukrainian Garlic Herb Dinner Rolls

Easy and delicious dinner rolls worthy of your holiday table

Prep Time20

Cook Time30

Total Raising Time2

Course: breads, Side Dish

Cuisine: Ukrainian

Keyword: Christmas recipe, dinner rolls, thanksgiving side dish recipes, yeast rolls

Servings: 9

Calories: 265kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

Dough:

1 cup milk lukewarm
2 1/4 tsp yeast 1 packet
2 tbs sugar
2 tbs oil
3 cups flour
2 tsp salt
1 egg beaten

Garlic Herb Oil:

3 tbs olive oil
1 large clove garlic finely minced
1 tbs fresh dill chopped
2 tbs parsley chopped
1/2 tsp kosher salt optional

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Instructions

Pour the warm milk in the bowl of a stand mixer with dough hook attached or a large bowl is hand mixing/kneading. Add the sugar to the milk then sprinkle the yeast on the tops. Whisk the mixture and allow it to proof for 5-10 minutes. The mixture should appear foamy if yeast is active.
When you see the yeast is active, add the oil, flour and salt. Start at low speed with the dough hook on the mixer. When a ball starts to form (you may need a bit of additional flour), increase speed to medium and knead for 6-8 minutes on the machine, or 10-12 minutes kneading by hand. Dough should be soft and elastic yet not sticky.
Place dough in an oiled bowl, cover and let rise in a warm place until double in bulk; 1-1 1/2 hours.
After dough has doubled, punch it down to remove the air. Divide dough into 8 equal portions. Shape each into a ball and place 3 across, 3 down in a 9 x 9-inch greased square pan. Metal is preferred here. Cover and let rise until puffy--about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350F/180C and make the herb oil.
Mix all herb oil ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
When rolls are puffy, brush with the beaten egg and bake for 25-30 minutes; until they are a deep golden color.
Brush with the herb oil as soon as they are removed from the oven. Let them sit about 15 minutes to cool slightly before serving.

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Easy Hawaiian Rolls #2

Judith Hannemann — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Easy Hawaiian Rolls

Exactly like Kings Hawaiian rolls and so easy too!

I love Kings Hawaiian Rolls…I mean I REALLY love them…so much that I can eat practically a whole package in one sitting. There’s just something about the combo of the texture and the taste.

So easy and cheap you’ll never believe!

I’ve made other attempts at duplicating them, and they’ve been pretty good. This is another one of my copycat recipes for them. They are very good, but these are better. So good in fact, I cannot tell the difference.

The plus here is that they use very inexpensive ingredients so you don’t have to buy anything special. If you don’t have bread flour, then use regular all-purpose.

Light and fluffy. Just add butter….or not! Good just by itself!

The pineapple juice is nice, but you don’t need it. Water will do you here.

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Easy Hawaiian Rolls #2

Exactly like Kings Hawaiian rolls and so easy too!

Prep Time3 30

Cook Time45

Total Time4 15

Course: breads

Cuisine: American

Keyword: bread recipe, hawaiian rolls

Servings: 9

Calories: 230kcal

Author: Judith Hannemann

Ingredients

1 cup warm water or pineapple juice
1/3 cup sugar
2 1/4 tsp SAF yeast (aka bread machine yeast)
2 tbsp oil
3/4 tsp salt
3 cups bread flour

Instructions

Place water (or pineapple juice) in a large bowl. Add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Sprinkle yeast on top and let sit for 10 minutes. If bubbles form, yeast is active and you may proceed.
Add the oil and salt; stir
Stir in flour, one cup at a time, until a soft dough forms. Turn out on floured surface and knead for 5-8 minutes or until dough is smooth and elastic.
Place about 1 tsp of oil in the bottom of a deep bowl. Add the dough and coat the bottom of the dough with the oil; turn dough oil side up. Cover and let rise for 1-1 1/2 hours or until double in bulk
Stand mixer method:
Place water/pineapple juice in the bowl of a heavy-duty stand mixer. Add the sugar and stir. Sprinkle yeast over liquid. Let stand for 10 minutes. If bubbles form, you may proceed.
Attach dough hook to machine. Add the oil and the salt. Mix at low speed.
Add flour, one cup at a time, and knead for 3 minutes. Proceed as above.
Bread machine method:
Add ingredients as per manufacturer’s instructions. Set on dough cycle. When time is up, proceed to “shaping” instructions.
Shaping:
Lightly spray or grease a 9 x 9-inch pan.
Turn out dough on a lightly floured surface. Roll dough into a 9-inch log. Cut off 9 equal portions and form into balls. Place in pan, allowing space around each ball for rising.
Cover and let rise until double in bulk, about 30-45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Bake rolls for 15-20 minutes or until internal temperature of rolls is 190 degrees F -OR- until when bottom of the rolls are tapped, it produces a hollow sound.
While still hot, brush tops of each roll with butter. NOTE: what I do is just rub the end of a stick of butter on each roll.

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Easy Hawaiian Rolls

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Hawaiian Rolls

Judith Hannemann — Tue, 27 Aug 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Hawaiian Rolls

Love the store bought? You’ll like these even better!

I love King’s Hawaiian rolls. Doesn’t everybody???

Unfortunately, I can only get them in Aldi and Aldi doesn’t always have them (maybe lucky for my butt LOL). So I went looking for a recipe and a recipe where I had all the ingredients.

Many recipes vary wildly in ingredients–going from pineapple juice to crushed pineapple to even condensed milk and no pineapple. Yikes, try to decide. Anyway I found one that looked simple and easily adaptable for bread machines, where I will make this in future. The recipe I used came from Noreen’s Kitchen.

I made 1/2 this recipe. The way I divided the eggs was used 1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk. I reserved the white for brushing the tops of the rolls. However, after I did this, I do not recommend it. Most recipes call for brushing with melted butter AFTER they finish baking and after trying mine, I see why the other recipes call for doing that–it makes the roll softer and since the rolls are already baked, they will not slightly deflate from the pressure of a pastry brush. Anyone following me making these via my Facebook fan page knows this story and why I don’t recommend it. However, the rolls tasted WONDERFUL and was well worth the effort.

Hawaiian Rolls

7-8 cups flour
5 tsp INSTANT yeast (aka bread machine yeast)
2/3 cup sugar
3/4 cup instant potato flakes
1 tsp salt
1 cup WHOLE milk
1/2 cup butter
1 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup warm water
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

In microwave or small saucepan, heat milk with butter, until butter melts. Cool slightly (very warm to the touch).

In a large stand mixer fitted with the paddle blade, combine 3 cups of flour, sugar, potato flakes, salt, milk mixture, pineapple juice, water vanilla and yeast. Beat until well mixed, about 3-5 minutes.

Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Change paddle blade for dough hook.

Add remaining flour, one cup at a time, adding only enough flour to make a soft and slightly sticky dough. Dough is supposed to be very soft and sticky, so resist using more to form a stiffer dough. Knead with dough hook for 5 minutes. If you don’t have a mixer with a dough hook, manually mix in the flour as directed for the dough hook, and knead about 8 minutes.

Place dough in a greased bowl, cover with greased plastic wrap and place in a warm place to rise until double. This will take at least 1 hour.

When dough has doubled in volume, gently deflate dough. Turn out on a non-stick work surface, cover and let rest for 5 minutes.

Grease or spray two 13 x 9-inch baking pans. Cut dough into 2 ounce portions and roll into balls to shape. Place in prepared pans, spacing evenly apart, but keeping in mind you want them to touch each other once risen. I placed mine about 1/2-3/4″ apart.

Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until double; 45-60 minutes.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Uncover and place pans in hot oven. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until tops of rolls are nicely browned.

Remove from oven and brush with melted butter if desired.

Makes 36 (approx) rolls.

Hawaiian Rolls

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