Ingredients:
Warm Water – 1 1/4 cups
Sugar – 2 tbsps
Active Dry Yeast – 1 tbsp
Salt – 1 tsp
Olive Oil – 3 tbsp
Unbleached All Purpose Flour – 3 cups
Milk – 1/8 cup
Sesame Seeds – 2 tbsps
For Spread:
Unsalted Soft Butter – 1/2 cup (1 stick)
Garlic Cloves – 6 large
Peppercorns, freshly pounded – 1/2 tsp
Coriander Leaves, chopped – 1/2 cup (loosely filled)
Salt – 1/2 tsp
Method:
- In a large bowl, warm water, yeast and sugar. Whisk well and set aside for 5 minutes until the mixture rises turning frothy.
- Meanwhile, in a mixing bowl, take all purpose flour.
- To the frothy yeast mixture, add oil and salt. Mix well.
- Pour the yeast mixture to mixing bowl containing flour. Knead it into a soft dough. The dough must be a slightly sticky and not be rubbery. Depending on the quality of the flour, you might need to add 1-2 tablespoons of water to get the dough soft and sticky. Add 1 tsp a time.
- Now dust a flat platform with some flour and thoroughly knead the dough for 8-10 minutes until the dough feels soft and light.Turn the dough into a big smooth ball.
- Smear oil all over the dough ball and place it in a well greased bowl.
- Cover the dough with a cling film to keep the moisture trapped within. Set it aside for 1 hour until the dough to rises for the double the volume.
- Meanwhile, mince garlic cloves.
- Take butter in a small bowl.
- Whisk the butter, peppercorns and salt well until it is soft and creamy.
- Mix in minced garlic and chopped coriander leaves. Mix thoroughly. Keep aside.
- Once the dough has doubled, remove the cling film and knead the dough again for 1 minute.
- Divide the dough into 4 portions.
- Roll a portion into a ball, dust the kitchen platform with some all purpose flour.
- Using a rolling pin roll the ball into a 1/2 cm thick roll-out.
- Divide the prepared spread into 4 equal portions.
- Evenly spread a portion of the prepared spread on the rolled out dough.
- From one end, tightly roll the rolled-out dough to the other end.
- Half the rolled dough.
- Cut each half into 2 pieces to get 4 pieces from each roll.
- Repeat steps 14-20 for the remaining dough.
- Grease 2 cake tins.
- Place the cut out dough rolls in the cake tins, equi-distant from one another. Place the same number of dough rolls in the two cake tins.
- Set is aside for another 1 hour, cling-wrapped so that the dough rolls rise well.
- Rub little milk on each dough roll and sprinkle a few sesame seeds.
- Meanwhile, heat the oven to 180 degrees C /350 F.
- Place the cake tins in the oven and bake the rolls for about 25-30 minutes.
- Remove the cake tins out of the oven and let it stand for 5-10 minutes,
- Serve warm.
This recipe is adapted from My Singapore Kitchen