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Levain Dinner Rolls

Delicious sourdough dinner rolls made with young levain.
Prep Time16 hours
Cook Time35 minutes
Total Time16 hours 35 minutes
Course: Breakfast, Brunch
Cuisine: American
Keyword: dinner rolls, Sourdough recipes
Servings: 10 servings
Calories: 142kcal

Ingredients

Levain

  • 50 g/ half of ⅓ cup + ¾ tablespoon Mature active starter
  • 200 g /1 ½ cup+ 1 tablespoon white flour
  • 50 g/1/3 cup+¼ tablespoon whole wheat flour
  • 200 g/3/4 cup water
  • I used 170 g of leavin for pain de `campange and rest for levain dinner rolls

For leavain dinner rolls

  • 10.4 oz/1 ¼ cup leavain
  • 1.12 cup /9 oz water
  • 2 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 tablespoon /27g potato flour
  • ¼ cup/32g milk powder
  • 2.7 cup/ 342g bread flour
  • ¼ teaspoon/1 g yeast
  • 2 tablespoon butter
  • 1 ½ teaspoon salt

Egg wash

  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon of water

Instructions

For levain,

  • In a plastic bowl mix all the ingredient for the levain including the starter and
  • just mix like this
  • set aside for 6-8 hours at room temperature before you mix the final dough.
  • For the dinner rolls
  • In a 12 quart plastic container mix all ingredients for the buns, except, salt, levain, butter and yeast.
  • After 20 minutes of mixing add salt, leavain , butter and yeast and mix once again
  • and set aside for 30 minutes.
  • Then fold the dough from sides to center and set aside
  • once again for 30 minutes to do a second fold, continue this process until you finished the 4 folds. Set aside the dough into refrigerator for overnight.
  • Next morning, divide the dough into 19-10 equal sized ball,
  • set aside for proof /double for 45 minutes. While dough is proofing preheat the oven to 350F.
  • When you are ready to bake do an egg wash
  • and bake them for about 35 minutes or until they become golden brown in color.
  • Remove from the baking sheet and cool for an hour and enjoy as much you want.

Notes

The Levain recipe inspired from here and dinner rolls recipe is inspired from here

Nutrition

Calories: 142kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 22mg | Sodium: 400mg | Potassium: 80mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 95IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 22mg | Iron: 1mg
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