August 26, 2022 • Class: Sweet Pastries, Pastries/Breads
I suppose I have to be getting good in baking (or over assured) however I made this with out measuring something, and it labored wonderful. Simply to point out that it is a very straightforward roll regardless of the considerably uncommon elements. I had made it years in the past with a brioche dough. I additionally made some Armenian mini rolls with date, referred to as chorek. These are tremendous widespread in Lebanon and normally offered in cellophane baggage within the Center-Jap groceries within the US as properly. These specific rolls are offered in bakeries in Lebanon however made with a white flour so they arrive out monumental and cottony.
Semolina rolls with date
Joumana Accad
Mediterranean, Center Jap
August 26, 2022
Candy Pastries, Pastries/Breads,
candy rolls, lebanese meals, date paste, candy pastries, avenue meals,
12 rolls servings
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Prepare dinner Time: 20 minutes
Passive Time: 24 hours
Elements
1 1/2 cup all-purpose unbleached flour
1/3 cup gluten flour (non-compulsory, it simply provides extra protein)
3/4 cup semolina flour (wonderful grade)
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp immediate dry yeast
3/4 tsp mahlab (non-compulsory)
3 oz melted butter or ghee or oil (I used ghee)
2 giant eggs
1/4 cup sugar (non-compulsory)
6 oz heat milk (entire)
toasted sesame seeds to sprinkle on prime (non-compulsory, however really useful)
1 egg, crushed, for the egg wash
Cornstarch (when making the rolls)
Filling: 1 to 1 1/4 cup date paste (see notice)
Directions
- Combine the all-purpose flour, salt, gluten flour (if utilizing), semolina flour and sugar (if including). In a small bowl, pour the nice and cozy milk, and add the sugar and yeast. Combine properly, and canopy for about 5-10 minutes in a heat place until the combination bubbles-up. Add the yeast combination to the flour, then the melted butter or ghee or oil and the eggs. Combine properly till the dough types (even whether it is moist). If the dough is simply too moist, add some extra semolina flour and begin kneading it on the counter a bit till it’s agency. Switch to a plastic ziploc bag or a bowl, cowl, and let it rise for a number of hours. I left it alone within the oven all night time.
- Switch the dough to a counter sprinkled with cornstarch and type balls of about 75g every (about 2 ounces), simply as an try and make the rolls all the identical measurement. Then, flatten the rolls (I did it with my fingers, as my rolling pin is in storage, I’m shifting). Place a beneficiant tablespoon of date paste within the center, and enclose it by pinching the dough firmly. Place the stuffed balls (seam aspect on the pan), clean aspect up, on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Cowl and allow them to rise about an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 375F. Utilizing kitchen shears, lower a half inch slit at one inch intervals throughout the balls. If the balls have risen in an rectangular form, reshape them first as a spherical as a lot as attainable, and lower the slits.
- Beat an egg with a fork and apply an egg wash on every roll earlier than sprinkling with sesame seeds.
- Bake for about quarter-hour or till puffed and agency and golden. Cool a bit and serve.
Recipe Notes
The date paste might be the identical one used within the maamoul recipe. It’s dates plumped up in water or juice, pureed with just a little little bit of ghee or butter and seasoned with a contact of Mexican vanilla or orange blossom water or rose water.
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