Butternut Squash Dinner Rolls

Bread

Butternut Squash Dinner Rolls

3 20

3 30

Servings: rolls

Make these soft, delicious vegan butternut squash dinner rolls at home with ease! This simple recipe uses butternut squash puree. You can use a bread machine or a stand mixer to make the dough. They are fluffy, flavorful, and a guaranteed crowd-pleaser!

Equipment

Bread Machine (or Stand Mixer)
Convection Oven
Baking tray (13 inch by 9 inch)
Basting Brush

Ingredients

Wet ingredients

▢ ½ cup Water (warm, microwave 30 seconds)
▢ 4 tablespoon Oil
▢ 1 cup Butternut squash (cooked, peeled, mashed, 200 grams)

Dry ingredients

▢ 1 tablespoon Organic cane sugar
▢ 1 teaspoon Salt
▢ 3 ½ cup Bread flour (420 grams or all-purpose flour)
▢ 1 ½ teaspoon Instant yeast (5 grams or bread machine yeast)

Instructions

Option 1: Make dough in bread machine

Place the wet and dry ingredients in the order required by your bread machine.
Close the lid and select the "dough" cycle.
Once the cycle completes, remove the dough from the pan on a lightly floured surface.

Option 2: Make dough in stand mixer

Place the wet and dry ingredients into the stand mixer bowl.
Attach the dough hook and knead on setting 2 for about 12 minutes until the dough is well kneaded and attaches to the hook.
Make a smooth dough ball, apply some oil to the bottom of the bowl and place the dough ball in it for rising.
Cover the bowl and keep it in a warm place for about 60 minutes until the dough rises and becomes more than double in volume.
Remove the dough from the bowl on a lightly floured surface.

Shape dough to make buns

Divide the dough into 15 equal parts of about 54 grams each.
Shape them into smooth balls and tuck all the edges to the bottom side to make it smooth from the top.
Place them in a 13-inch by 9-inch baking tray lined with parchment paper keeping 1-2 finger space between the balls.
Cover with a food wrap or a kitchen towel so that it does not dry up.
Allow it to rise for about 45-60 minutes until it has about tripled in volume.

Bake in the oven

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Keep rack at mid level.
Remove the food wrap gently and then place the baking tray in the oven.
Bake for about 20 minutes on 350°F or until the crust is golden brown in color.
Take the baking tray out of the oven.

Final touches

Apply some butter on top of the buns using a basting brush.

Notes

To cook butternut squash, in Instant Pot
- Put 1 cup water in the Instant Pot liner.
- Place whole butternut squash or cut them into halves or quarters.
- Pressure cook for about 25-30 minutes and let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes.
- Scoop 1 cup (200 grams) squash for the recipe and mash it.
- Let it cool down before making the rolls.
Watch the dough after 10 minutes. Depending on the moisture content of the squash, you may have to add a little more flour or water to the dough while mixing.
Sifting and weighing the flour helps make the bread soft. Sifting is optional, however, weighing the flour gives consistent results.
To make about 20 smaller buns, use a 15 inch by 11 inch tray and make dough balls of about 40-41 grams each.

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