Garlic Bread Rolls
But first.....some painful gnasher removal.......
Having my wisdom teeth out proved to be as hard core as child birth. There were no warnings from health care officials, no, have you got anyone to look after your whole life for the next few days, no, are you aware we are about to carry out serious trauma to your face?
Just afterwards a cursory, over the shoulder, "You can get dressed now", WT serious F?!! I feel like my mouth has been in a car crash, my gown is completely open at the back, I can't talk or think straight and the room is full of people that have no desire to see my bloodhound breasts and craterous thighs.....at least draw the curtains for me b.tch.
It was a sign of things to come. My husband had in the few hours after he had dropped me off clutching a carrier bag stuffed with a jammy dressing gown and mangey slippers, forgotten completely to listen out for my text to come pick me up. It took 2 hours before he appeared sheepishly at my bedside citing traffic issues and a difficult time at Tescos finding Heinz Chicken Soup...........I ask you?.......
In the interim I was handed an aftercare do's and don'ts sheet. I poured over these instructions with the fear of the seriously injured. Being the scared sh.tless type that I am, I became concerned about one of the instructions and tried to seek clarification from the nurses. Each one gave a completely different answer and the last one found me obviously stupid so I desisted and just gave into worrying about it neurotically for the next 24 hours.
Obviously my appetite remained undaunted and once over the initial shock of the extraction and resulting moon face, I began settling into slurping soup and even started ramming soft food through the 1 cm gap between my top and bottom teeth. It's amazing what you can achieve when desperate and a big fatty. It also made me realise that a gastric band would be of no use to me. I would push through the pain and stretch the moflo.
Garlic Bread Rolls Recipe
Anyways I have passed the time dreaming about tear and share garlic rolls. It has taken me a few experiments to come up with this fabulous recipe but it has been well worth the wait.
These soft garlicky buns of love have fitted perfectly between my gnashers when split in half and I have been able to practically inhale them so soft is their crumb. I bake them in my cast iron frying pan and bring them warm to the table for immediate devouring but you can cover and keep them to reheat again over a couple of days if it suits your garlic bread wants.
Second Prove
After the initial rise I roll pieces of the dough into balls and nestle into my skillet pan with gaps in between. I brush the garlic butter all over them and cover to allow to prove somewhere warm.
Ready For The Oven
Bake in the oven until gloriously brown and burnished with the Garlic Butter.....Inhale.
IF YOU LIKE THIS RECIPE YOU MAY LIKE THESE
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Garlic Rolls
Ingredients
Rolls
- 500 grams strong white flour
- 7 grams dry instant yeast 1 packet
- 7 grams salt
- 1 tsps garlic powder rounded
- 70 grams unsalted butter soft
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 250 mls milk luke warm
- 1 large egg room temp and beaten
Garlic butter
- 1 head garlic
- 50 grams unsalted butter
- 2 tbsps quality olive oil
- 1 big pinch sea salt flakes
Instructions
- I make my bread rolls in a free standing mixer with a dough hook. But you can do it all by hand. Put the flour, yeast, butter, garlic powder, sugar and salt all in your large mixing bowl. Make sure to put your yeast and salt on opposite sides of the bowl. Warm the milk and egg together slightly in a jug so that they are luke warm. This helps the yeast to activate quickly. Preheat the oven to 180 C.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl and mix well until a dough forms. Knead by hand for about ten mins or five if using a dough hook and mixer. Keep going until the dough is smooth and elastic. This dough may start off quite wet and sticky but that will disappear as you knead.
- Oil the bowl and cover it with clingfilm or suchlike. Place it somewhere warm.
- Slice the top off the garlic head and parcel loosely in a square of silver foil and roast in an oven for about 40 mins. Leave till cool enough to handle.
- In a small food processor squeeze out the garlic cloves. Sorry but they pop out just like giant blackheads!!!Extremely satisfying!!!Add the butter, oil and salt. Whizz until it forms a paste. Set aside.
- Once the dough has doubled in size (this may take an hour and a half) tip out onto the work surface and knock back. I then paint my roasting dish or frying pan with some of the garlic butter and begin to chop off bits of the dough and roll them into balls. I place them in the dish with gaps in between. This allows them to puff up. It is important to roll the balls tightly as it is this that helps them rise. Sometimes I roll them between the flat of my palm and the work surface and others just pull them into a drawstring purse shape pulling the outer surface tight underneath the ball. Brush liberally with half of the garlic butter paste.
- Cover with a large carrier bag and fasten the edges shut. Place your dish somewhere warm. You can just use clingfilm if there is room for the buns to rise in your dish. If I use the frying pan it isn't deep enough so I slip it inside a clean carrier bag. Wait for about forty minutes for the buns to puff up.
- Place in the oven for about thirty minutes or until they are golden brown. If the tops start to catch then place a sheet of silver foil loosely on top to prevent the rolls becoming too dark. If not eating immediately cool on a wire rack.
- Apply three immediately to chipmunk face. Strictly for medicinal purposes you understand.
Notes
Nutrition
All nutritional information is approximate and intended only as a guide.
Do let me know how you got on in the comments below. I love a good old hairy chin wag.
Eb Gargano | Easy Peasy Foodie
Oh you poor thing - your treatment sounds absolutely horrendous. I hope you are feeling better now. I have heard so many horror stories about wisdom teeth I am quite glad I only have one (which took it's time to arrive and finally made an appearance when I was 36 bizarrely!) I am obsessive about keeping it clean as my dentist tells me they can easily get missed and go bad and then it would have to be removed. Fingers crossed I am doing a good job as she says she can't really see it to tell! Love your recipe - it sounds just the thing to make you feel better after such a horrendous ordeal (that and a large tub of ice cream I reckon!!) Thanks for linking them up to #CookBlogShare! Eb x
Corina
These sound delicious and I definitely think garlic rolls make everything feel better. I'm cooking a roast chicken for tea and I wish I had the energy to make these as I think they would be just perfect on the side. Luckily my wisdom teeth have never popped out although I remember having an xray years ago and they are there under the surface. I just hope they don't decide to make a late appearance like Eb's!
Recipes Made Easy
I had mine out when I was in my twenty but I do remember them being bloody painful. Hope your all better now. Those garlic roll look fabulous comfort food I'm having to resist going down to the kitchen right now to make some.
Cat Sherrin
That sounds horrible! Hope you're feeling better now. These rolls look amazing - so light and fluffy. I also love your cast iron frying pan. I am very temped to get one after lusting after people using them on American cooking programs x
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain
Aw Jenny, I hope you're feeling better now. I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth out in my 20's at the hospital and ended up in tears in the room where they prep you for surgery! it's blinking scary with all of those folk, canisters of gas and tons of equipment! I love watching GPs behing closed doors - it's one of my TV treats! - but like you say it's NOTHING like real life GP surgeries. They obviously have their nice & friendly face on don't they thinking about the money they/the surgery will receive for allowing the TV cameras into the consultations! heck, I'm getting as synical as hubby is!
Absolutely love your garlic rolls too - I know sai hubby would love these 🙂
Angela x