Soft Cheese Bread Rolls

I made these this week when I was experimenting in the kitchen with the flour I had in, throughout lockdown flour (especially bread flour!) and yeast have been so hard to find here...  it actually turned out really well and makes lush soft bread rolls laced in cheese.

Takes 2 Hours to make and bake

Ingredients:

Wholemeal bread flour 50g 

Self raising flour 450g 

Plain flour 250g 

Dried yeast 7g 

1 teaspoon of sugar

500ml of lukewarm water

Grated butter 100g 

Grated cheddar cheese 75g 

1 teaspoon of salt

How to make Soft Cheese bread rolls:

In a small bowl add the yeast, sugar and 100g of the lukewarm water.  Stir and leave for 10 minutes.  

While you're waiting for the yeast, put all the flours into a bowl and add the grated butter and cheese and stir in with a spoon.  add the salt and stir again.

The yeast should be foamy on top at this point.  Pour this yeast mixture into the flour and mix in using a mixer and kneading tools or by hand and slowly add the rest of the lukewarm water until you have a dough that you can knead without it sticking to your hands.  Add slowly as you might not need quite all of it and you don't want the dough to be sticky.

Knead well and then set in a bowl dusted with flour so the dough doesn't stick as it proves.  Leave your dough for an hour, it will rise so it's double in size. 

  

Make sure your Oven is pre-heated to 170C ready for the bread. 

Prepare 2 baking trays - to do this I rub a thin amount of butter around and sprinkle just enough flour to cover it very lightly. 

When your dough has proven, push all the air out of it with your fists and knead for another 5-10 minutes really well.

Cut the dough into 12 equal parts and shape them into rolls, they will double in size when they cook in the oven so make sure there is enough room for them to expand on the baking trays

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes      

They should be brown all over, the crust should be soft and look something like this when you cut them open... 

These are great just with butter or as a bun for a burger.   This batch was so good my children came running down the stairs begging for some straight out of the oven and wanted seconds.