Hope everybody started big planning for Thanksgiving. Lot of brining, roasting and cooking will happen in everybody’s kitchen and a busy baking time too with all pumpkin or pecan pies and casseroles. I am not cooking a turkey. My hubby says it tastes good only when there is cranberry sauce on the side and also other dishes along with it.
While I was working at a hospital, I had a co-worker who made cauliflower turkey to serve for dinner, as her daughters wanted a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day. She even gave me an idea and a print out, but I misplaced it somewhere. But I have planning to make a grand dinner menu and will decide soon.
Since dinner rolls are must on Thanksgiving table, this month Baking Partners challenge theme was to make various shaped dinner rolls. I had already made normal dinner rolls/pav, Parker house rolls. But I was eying to try lion house rolls and few other shaped dinner rolls for a long time. I am bread baking fanatic, and proud to say that. Made dinner rolls of six shapes, and are 1) Clover leaf. 2) Rose Shape 3) small braid 4) knot 6) Rosette or Kaiser 7) Line house rolls. I was not able to get time to make crescent shape.
I will write dinner roll recipes in two parts as I don't want the post crowded with photos. This whole wheat dinner rolls are adapted from my favorite bread baking site KingArthur flour’s recipe. I didn’t do egg wash, as I wanted an eggless recipe, and brushed the rolls with milk and butter. In the eggless dinner rolls, I substituted half of All-purpose flour with whole wheat flour to make it healthy. At least stop my guilty conscience.
Rolls turn out to be delicious, I was planning to make some soup, but ate the bread rolls with a chana dal curry that I had made the night before. The leftovers I tried with nutella. They are delicious. If you want cute and beautiful dinner rolls for your Thanksgiving table or any party try this. I can vouch 100% you are going to be praised as a great baker, you guest will be amazed for sure. I was able to find video for the making of all the shapes, and that made it really easy to put together.
Amazing Baking Partners group comes up with beautiful shaped rolls, so please stop by at every link and check their stories too.
Here comes the recipe.
For Braid, lion house rolls, kaiser and knot you need to grab following ingredients recipe is without egg.
In a bowl of kitchen aid stand mixer make dough
Line house rolls are made like this
For Kaiser Rolls
For Knot
For Braid
Once you are ready for baking brush with milk and bake them in preheated 350F oven. Bake for about 25 minutes. Once you remove from oven immediately brush with butter .
Serve warm.
Shaped Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls
Prep Time 3 hours
Cook Time 25 minutes
Serves 6-8
For Lion house rolls, Kaiser, Knot and Braid I used This recipe from King Arthur flour
- 2 cups/ 180g King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
- 1 ½ cup/ 225g King Arthur white Whole Wheat flour
- 2 ¼ teaspoons (7g) instant yeast
- ¼ cup (46g) Potato flour
- ¼ cup (26g) Baker's Special Dry Milk or nonfat dry milk ( see notes)
- 1 1/ 2 (26g) tablespoons sugar
- 1 ¼ (6g) teaspoons salt
- 3 ½ (43g) tablespoons soft butter
- 1cup + 1(212g) tablespoon lukewarm water
- ½ cup (123g)lukewarm milk
Topping
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
Directions
Combine all of the dough ingredients in a large bowl, and mix and knead using a stand mixer, to make a soft, smooth dough.
Place the dough in a lightly greased container — an 8-cup measure works well here. Cover the container, and allow the dough to rise for 60 to 90 minutes, until it's just about doubled in bulk.
Gently deflate the dough, and transfer it to a lightly greased work surface.
Divide the dough 859g into 3 equal pieces and again each pieces into ¼ inch thick rectangle.
For Lion house rolls : Dough pieces should be cut out into 4 inch long and 2 inch wide. brush with butter and lightly spread the dough piece and make swift roll with two hands. Dough pieces should be rolled facing you. Take a look at this video
For Kaiser rolls: Dough pieces should be cut into 4 ½ inch long and 1 inch wide. Roll them into rope. Bring the two ends together and place one end over other, pull and make a knot. Tuck in one end from top and other end from bottom.
For knot rolls: Dough pieces should be cut into 5 inch long and 1 inch wide. Roll them into rope. Bring the two ends together and place one end over other, pull and make a knot.
For Braid: Dough pieces should be 7 inch long and 4 inch wide. cut into three pieces. And make a braid.
Once you are done with all shape place them in baking sheet lined with parchment paper and
Cover the pans, and allow the buns to rise till they're crowded against one another and quite puffy, about 45 minutes. Towards the end of the rising time, preheat the oven to 350°F.
Uncover the buns, brush with milk and bake them for 25 minutes, until they're golden brown on top and the edges of the center bun spring back lightly when you touch it. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the middle of the center bun should register at least 190°F.
Remove the buns from the oven, and brush with the melted butter. After a couple of minutes, turn them out of the pan onto a cooling rack.
Serve warm. Store leftovers well-wrapped, at room temperature.
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Reeni Pisano says
You are such a talented bread baker Swathi! These are perfect! Very beautiful. Thanks for showing us the steps on how to form them - that is a big help.
Zoe says
I find that shaping and proving breads can be extremely therapeutic. Yours look fantastic.
Lorraine Joy Alegria-Vizcarra says
I love how you were able to take a pic of each step. You did a great job
Hema says
Very nicely explained and all the rolls look awesome..
Kitchen Queen says
Love all the shapes.
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Foodomania RK says
YUM!! these look super! 🙂
Navaneetham Krishnan says
Another spectacular outcome. Real beauties baked by you. I can only admire and I am not sure whether I have the patience to do the same.
Treatntrick Treat and Trick says
You made it much easier to bake beautiful bread with your tutorial!
mjskit says
I love all of the shapes your created! The braid is quite special and would sure make gorgeous centerpiece of a Thanksgiving table. Yummy rolls!
Balvinder Ubi says
You make everything look so simple with your step wise pictures.
Gajus kitchen says
Love to see so many versions of dinner rolls and your step by step pictures are very good
Marus says
Your rolls look fantastic and delicious.
Good day!
Veena Theagarajan says
Perfectly baked dinner roll
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Angie's Recipes says
Homemade bread is the best!
Priya says
Even i thought to prepare them with wholewheat flour,but everyone at home didnt reacted much for it, so obviously went for all purpose flour.. You have done simply fabulous Swathi. Seriously enjoyed thoroughly this challenge,looking forward for the next one.
Shweta in the Kitchen says
So perfectly made Swati, loved them...who needs to buy one when u can make such fancy ones at home
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Julie says
That's an excellent attempt,Swathi with wheat flour..loved all the shapes too,came out perfect:)
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Amrita Vishal says
Wow love the accurate shapes of your dinner rolls and the lovely colour.
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These look delicious. Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friends Friday. Please come back Sunday to vote.
Archana Potdar says
Awesome pics. I wanted to try the rosette but by the end i could not remember it and was tired. But Iam gald I made them. They were highly appreciated. Thanks to you. Thanks for all the support that u have given me.
Chitra says
love the shapes..looks cute 🙂
Achu says
Amazing each and every rolls and awesome pictures.Thank you dear for selecting an awesome challenge :)Beautifully done 🙂
Shree Kanneppady says
Can i grab knotted bread rolls ?
looks so delicious. perfet for thanksgiving !
Vrinda says
Nicely baked Swathi..Bookmarked...
Sangeetha Priya says
Well explained healthy rolls!!!
veena krishnakumar says
Love the healthy whole wheat dinner rolls. Thank you so much for the lovely challenge. Looking forward to the next:-)
PT says
you are a baking queen swathi 🙂
Vimitha Anand says
Nice step by step clicks dear... the rolls look so soft and fluffy
Guru Uru says
Your buns are so deliciously made my friend 😀
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Shabbu says
Perfect dinner rolls..looks delicious..
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Renata says
Love all the different shapes Swathi, really gorgeous!
Mich PieceofCake says
Love your beautifully shaped rolls, they look so soft and fluffy.
Mich PieceofCake says
Such beautiful rolls! Love your creativity in shaping them.
Divya Pramil says
Nice and perfectly shaped ones dear 🙂
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Vidhya Viju Govind says
Amazing - i love the pictorials 🙂 thanks a million for the choice of recipe for the challenge !
Kaveri Venkatesh says
Very nicely made dinner rolls Swathi...well explained too
Kaveri Venkatesh says
Very nicely made dinner rolls...nicely explained too..
Sayantani says
lovely breads. love the shapes.
Jaleela says
very perfect dinner roll
Lizzy Do says
Swathi, your rolls look fantastic!!!! I'd be happy to skip dinner and just eat your bread. Thanks so much for showing how to twist the dough in such detail, too.
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
All the shapes have come out so perfect and delicious!!! so yummy!!!
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Sravs says
Super shapes and perfectly done dear !! looks wonderful !!
runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com says
Whole wheat shaped breads rock.. a much healthier option.. would love to have some with soup!
Suja Manoj says
Swathi, perfectly baked,looks so soft and yum,love the presentation and the cute cutting board..the braids is so impressive.
Reshmi Mahesh says
Wow Swathi...Beautifully done rolls and very nicely explained...Thanks for the choice of recipe...Really soft and delicious rolls...:)
Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch says
I love all the different shapes you had made with the bread dough! These look amazing! Have a wonderful weekend!