Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make Homemade Hoagie Rolls.
I love making homemade bread!
My family is so spoiled because the bread that I make is better than you can buy in almost any grocery store.
Today I'm showing you how to make homemade hoagie rolls so that you can make the best sandwich ever.
To start you'll need 1 cup of warm milk,
and you want that milk to be just warm to the touch.
Then we'll add in 1 tablespoon of yeast.
I like to use instant yeast because no proofing is required.
If you're using another kind of yeast you may need to proof this for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle that in with the warm milk.
Then add in 2 tablespoons of sugar,
and 1 teaspoon of salt.
Now a question that I frequently get is:
"Doesn't salt kill yeast?"
The answer to that question is no.
What salt does is slow down the growth of yeast,
so it's important that you have the right balance of yeast to salt.
Now if you're letting it proof this is where you'd let it sit for 10 minutes,
but we don't need to since we're using instant yeast.
So I'll add in 1 egg,
and 3 tablespoons of softened butter.
Next you'll need 3 to 3 1/2 cups of either all-purpose or bread flour.
Start by adding in just 3 cups of flour,
and then if you need that extra 1/2 cup we can add it in later.
Then we'll get this mixing.
The amount of flour you need when making bread always varies just a little bit
depending on things like how accurately you measure your ingredients,
and things like the weather.
Your dough should be able to pull away from the sides of the bowl and not stick.
You want your dough to be tacky to the touch but not sticky.
Then spray a large mixing bowl with a little nonstick cooking spray.
Then we're going to take our dough,
I like to turn it over a little bit so it gets greased on the outside,
set it in there,
we'll cover it with a towel,
and let it rise until double in size which will take about 1 hour.
After an hour we'll take our dough and turn it out onto a clean surface.
Then we're going to take a rolling pin and roll it into a large rectangle.
You want the dough to be about 1/4 inch thick,
and you want the rectangle to be about 24 inches wide.
A trick that I like to use for measurements is to use a piece of paper.
A standard piece of paper is 8.5 x 11 inches.
So for 24 inches I know my dough needs to be slightly wider than 2 pieces of paper,
and if we go this way it's about 12 inches, so slightly longer than the piece of paper.
It is very useful to print your recipes.
Then we're going to cut this all into 4 pieces,
so we'll slice it down the middle in half with a butter knife,
and then slice each of those halves in half as well.
This recipe makes 4 hoagie rolls,
but it can easily be doubled or tripled.
Then you want to roll it up tightly lengthwise.
Then we'll pinch the ends and then roll it back and forth to seal it all together.
Once you get them all rolled out we're going to lay them out onto a lightly greased baking sheet.
Just place them down and cover it with a towel again and let these rise for another 30 minutes.
While they're rising, preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
After 30 minutes you want to take a sharp knife and just slash the top a little bit.
You only want the knife tip to go in about 1/8th of an inch.
Then we're ready to bake these in the 375 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes,
or until they're lightly browned on top.
Let them cool completely and then you're ready to slice them and make a sandwich.
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