Saturday, 12 March 2011

Cheats Walnut and Honey rolls

I made these bad boys to go with my squash soup and I think I may have developed a rather unhealthy addiction to them. My parents have a bread maker so I used that to mix up and prove the dough to save time and to save my hands getting messy but it's easy enough to do without, I'm just lazy and prefer boogeying in the kitchen to BBC 6 Music than pounding dough with my fists.



Ingredients
1 small bag white bread mix
325 ml warm water
100 g roughly chopped walnuts
4 tbsp honey
Olive oild to brush on top


Method
Whack the bread mix and water into a large bowl with the honey and nuts and mix until the dough comes together.
Place the dough on a floured surface and rest for five mins, then knead for a further two before resting again for five. (This is why I stick it all in the machine...) Shape into however many rolls you desire, i did 6 but they were flipping massive. You'd easily get 8 or 10 out of the mix. Pop them on a greased baking tray and cover with a damp cloth and leave in your airing cupboard or somewhere else warm for about half an hour, in which time they should have almost doubled in size. (Again the machine does all this for me. Magical!) Now brush with olive oil and pop in a hot oven, gas mark 8-ish for about 15 minutes. Apparently you can tell when they're done by knocking them on the bottom, they should sound hollow. They should be golden brown on the top and smell divine!

Now I've been told eating hot bread can give you indigestion but to be honest, the pain would be worth it to enjoy these oven fresh with some melty butter.


Happy scoffing!

Bx

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