It isn’t often that a recipe surprises me and gets me this excited! What am I so excited about? I have finally created a delicious spelt dinner roll that is light and airy and isn’t as dense as a brick! What’s even better is that they only take 30 minutes to make from start to finish! These are yeast rolls and typically you have to allow the rolls to proof (or rise) for several hours. Well this recipe takes out all the wait time and will have you just as excited as I am….for real!!
How do I achieve creating these rolls in such little time? I do so by soaking the yeast for 15 minutes. This speeds up the process of the yeast allowing it to rise much more quickly. I simple add the warm water, yeast, Rapadura Organic Whole Sugar
After the balls are formed allow to sit for 10 more minutes and then cook in a 400°F oven for another 10 minutes or until they turn slightly golden brown on the top. Brush the tops with a little melted butter and sprinkle with poppy or sesame seeds. Serve warm and enjoy!
30 Minute Spelt Rolls That Are Light & Airy!
Prep Time: 20 minutes- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: 12 rolls 1x
Category: side dish
Method: baking
Cuisine: american
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Try these delicious spelt rolls that are light and airy and take only 30 minutes to make from start to finish!
Ingredients
- 1 cup plus 2 tbsp warm water
- 1/3 cup melted coconut oil
- 2 tsp dry yeast
- 1/4 cup sucanat, or rapunzel
- 1 1/2 tsp unrefined sea salt
- 1 large egg
- 3 1/2 cup spelt flour, sprouted spelt flour or white spelt flour (any of these would work)
- poppy or sesame seeds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- In your mixer bowl combine water, coconut oil, yeast and sugar. Mix and allow to rest for 15 minutes.
- Using your dough hook attachment, mix in the salt, egg and flour. Knead with hook until dough is smooth and soft (about 2 minutes).
- Form dough into 12 balls and place into a greased 9″x13″ pan and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until tops are golden brown.
- Brush with melted butter and sprinkle some poppy or sesame seeds on top.
Notes
Recipe inspired by RealMomKitchen.com
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 roll
Halle, what is sucanat, or rapunzel?
YvonneTurner It is unrefined dried sugar cane juice. You can use organic sugar to if you would like.
This did not work for me whatsoever. Dough was very wet, not sure what went wrong. Very frustrating.
I only put 3/4 cup water and then it doesn’t turn out wet and still makes great rolls.
Can you do the dough in bread maker
Thanks would brown sugar work
I used coconut sugar and a little less than 1 quarter cup and mixed in a little almond flour for part of the flour. They turned out delicious and fluffy. I sifted all the dry together. Thx for the recipe. I did dinner rolls.
can I use xylitol instead of sucanat? I don’t have a dough mixer, can I use a hand beater to add in flour etc and knead it by hand?
The yeast feeds on the sugar and I don’t think xylitol would work. You could try honey or maple syrup. If you use honey or maple syrup I would start by only adding a few tbsp. If you don’t have a dough mixer that is fine. Just use your beaters and then when it becomes to thick for your mixer, add the remaining flour while you knead by hand. Do not overwork the flour! Only knead until dough forms.
Halle, did you use a sprouted spelt for this recipe? I only have regular spelt and not sprouted spelt at this time.
ericgpete I actually used regular spelt. You could use either one.
I have not had that much luck cooking with spelt, so I can definitely understand how much of a challenge developing this recipe must have been! Your rolls look and sound beautiful – all your hard work has definitely paid off!
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Looking forward to trying your recipe. Have you tried freezing the dough rolls and then dethawing and baking? I had never heard of soaking the yeast for an extended period before so was wondering if that would have an effect on the rise after freezing. Thank you for your time! jjs
I love love love spelt 🙂 Yummy!!! The pictures are making my mouth water 🙂 Thanks Halle!!! 🙂 Love it!
I cannot not tell you how excited I am to find this recipe. I’ve made these rolls several times already and I am always amazed at how good they are and how easy they are to make! They are so quick and easy I even whipped up a batch before work one morning! My husband could not believe I’d made them from scratch! I made a batch over the weekend but made 8 rolls instead of 12 so we’d have hamburger buns – baked them a couple minutes longer and they were perfect. Thank you!!!!
So glad you are enjoying the recipe:)
Made these today and they are AMAZING!!! So soft and fluffy and sooooo easy. This will be my go to recipe from now on. THANK YOU for sharing xx
Ditto what @Serena said! This is my new roll recipe for SURE!! Shared on reluctanthealthwife facebook page. Thanks!
1/4 cup sucanat? Is that right?
I know it’s been a couple years but in case anybody sees this: I’ve been loving this recipe but it’s waaaay too sweet so I only use like 2 tablespoons of sweetener and it works great.
Quite a few here like it less sweet. Glad to see less sweetener is working so well. Thanks for sharing your feedback!
Two “substitution” questions, please:
1) I have some organic coconut palm sugar … can I use that?
2) My daughter is egg-allergic so I was planning on using a flaxseed replacement (1tbsp ground flaxseed to 3tbsp water). Think it’ll work?