Petit Breakfast Rolls (Petit Pains) - Beautiful Soft, Sweet and Flavorful Homemade Breakfast Rolls
Author: Whats4Chow
Recipe type: Bread rolls / Breakfast rolls
Cuisine: French
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Serves: 12
These amazingly soft and slightly sweet breakfast rolls (Petit Pains) are really easy to make and despite the slightly longer than usual rising times, are well worth the effort.
Ingredients
- 1 Tsp Dried yeast
- 280ml Warm milk
- 450g Strong white flour
- 10ml Salt
- 15ml Caster sugar
- 50g Softened butter
Instructions
- Add the yeast to the warm milk and whisk this thoroughly. Put this aside for 10 minutes to mature.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, salt and caster sugar.
- Add the softened butter and rub this into the flour mixture until it resembles fine bread crumbs.
- Make well in the center of the flour and pour in the milky yeast.
- Using a wooden paddle, mix this until a dough comes together, and it comes away from the sides of the bowl.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead the dough for 5 minutes until it is smooth and elastic.
- Dust the dough with a little flour every time it becomes too sticky.
- Place the dough back in the mixing bowl, cover the bowl with cling-wrap and allow the dough to rise for 60 minutes in a warm place.
- After 60 minutes, knock the dough back and remove it from the bowl.
- Using your scale, divide the dough into 12 equal portions.
- Working with a piece at a time, briefly knead the dough. Pull the edges of the dough up to the center of the ball.
- Turn the ball over. Cup your hand over the ball and rotate to make the ball perfectly round. Using one hand, roll the ball into an elongated oval shape.
- Transfer the roll to a lightly greased baking sheet and continue with the remaining rolls. Leave about an inch or 25mm of space between each roll.
- Cover the rolls with an upturned roasting tin and allow this to rise for a further 60 minutes in a warm place.
- After 60 minutes, the rolls will be well risen and will just be touching. As they bake they will support one another and rise upwards instead of sideways.
- Using a sharp knife, slash 3 cuts into the top of each roll and brush the rolls with milk.
- Bake the rolls in a preheated oven at 180c or 350f for 12 to 15 minutes until lightly browned.
- Remove the rolls from the oven, separate them and allow them to cool on a wire rack.
