Onion Rolls With Sourdough Discard
The time has come! I am ready to start baking with dough that requires kneading :) I am excited about this new adventure and it is off to a good start. I have been making sourdough starter for the past couple days and the process involves a lot of discard. Rather then throwing it in the garbage, I have been using it for other breads. These onion rolls came out delicious!
Here is my sourdough discard, she is needing a little more time before she's ready to be bread on her own :P
I had some onion and butter already from perogies left over.
I started by melting the butter for 30 seconds in the microwave.
Then I microwaved 2/3 cup of milk for 3 seconds as well.
I added 2 teaspoons of instant yeast to the warm milk.
Also add 2 teaspoons of sugar, stir and let it sit for a few minutes. This will also the instant yeast to start eating the sugar. You will be able to smell it activate, it will smell like fresh bread.
I also mixed in 1 cup of the sourdough discard.
Then I add the melted onion butter and mixed in 2 cups of flour.
A whisk is actually not a good tool for this part. You are better off using a wooden spoon until everything seems combined.
Then flour a clean surface and knead the dough for 5 minutes. This part seemed intimidating to me but is actually somewhat therapeutic!
After the 5 minutes of kneading, you will see that the dough starts taking a shape and becoming less sticky.
Cover the bowl, I use a plastic hair cap, but plastic wrap works fine.
Then stick in a warmed oven (I preheat mine to 150 degrees then turn it off).
Wait for it to double is size which took about 5 hours.
Then bunch it. I have no idea why, every recipe seems to have this step.
Knead again for about 5 minutes and then cut into small sections.
A lot of recipes say to use a scale to get each roll the same size, this is a little too neorotic for me and I don't have a scale so I just eye ball it.
Place on a baking sheet.
Let them sit in a warm space for another hour under a tea towel.
Bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.
I made these into little buns but they were honestly so buttery and delicious all by themselves.
Onion Rolls With Sourdough Discard
Recipe details
- 12 rolls
- Prep time: 6 Hours Cook time: 20 Minutes Total time: 6 hr 20 min
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