Eggless Dinner Rolls

For this month's Baking Eggless challenge, Priya of Enveetu Kitchen suggested the recipe for Dinner rolls from Cooking Classy.First I thought of using mashed potato to replace the eggs,then decided to use Tangzhong method after seeing many lovely breads and rolls in the blogosphere made using this method.I made few plain Crescent shaped rolls,coriander chilli rolls,Jam rolls and we loved both the texture and taste of the rolls. 

 

Ingredients:

All purpose flour	2 cups
Instant yeast	1 tsp
Sugar	2 tblsp
Salt	½ tsp
Milk	¼ cup
Water	¼ cup+2-3 tblsp
Oil	2 tblsp
For the Tangzhong
All purpose flour	2 ½ tblsp
Milk	¼ cup
Water	¼ cup

Method:

Preparing the Tangzhong:

• Whisk the flour,milk,water in a sauce pan and cook in a medium flame stirring continuosly with a spatula.The mixture starts to thicken and once you find some lines at the bottom of the pan while stirring it's done.Allow it to cool and cover till further use.

Preparing the rolls:

• Take lukewarm water and milk,add 1 tblsp sugar and instant yeast and let it proof for 5-10 mins.
• Take the flour,salt,remaining sugar,oil in a mixing bowl.Add the prepared tangzhong mixture,yeast solution and mix well.Sprinkle little lukewarm water if you feel the dough is very stiff.The dough will be very sticky.Knead them till you get a smooth elastic ball of the dough.
• Apply oil on the dough and keep in a bowl covered with a wet kitchen towel in a warm place to rise for 1 hr or till it doubles in size.
• Once the dough doubles in volume, Place it on the counter and gently punch down to remove the air.
• Make smooth balls and proceed making rolls .
• For the crescent shaped rolls,Take a small portion of the dough and roll to a circle.Spread butter over the surface.Cut the circle to four quarters first and each quarter to wedges.Now start rolling each wedge and tuck the sharp end to the bottom of the roll.
• For the coriander chilli rolls,Roll the dough to a circle and apply a mixture of butter,green chilly,coriander and salt over the dough and start rolling to a log as we roll for cinnamon rolls.Cut them to rolls and place the cut side up.
• For the jam rolls,roll the dough to a small rectangle,place small quantity of jam in the center and fold .Pinch the ends.
• Place all the prepared rolls in a baking tray,cover and let it rise for 45 mins to 1 hr.
• Preheat the oven to 180 ºC.Brush the top of the rolls with milk and bake in preheated oven for 15- 20 mins till the top turns golden in colour.Once done apply butter on top of all the rolls and serve.

Note:

• It is not necessary to proof the Instant yeast,you can also directly add it to the flour.