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
or Organic Sucanat
and oil. I allow it to sit for 15 minutes and then add in the flour, egg, and salt. I allow the mixer to knead for 2 minutes and the dough is ready to roll into 12 balls as shown in this picture above.
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
are they gluten free?
No spelt is not gluten free.
What can I use in place of the sucanat, or Rapunzel. I can’t seem to find them at the local health food store. Are they a syrup? Could I use molasses or are they granules and could be replaced with coconut sugar?
Thanks Halle
It is granulated and yes coconut sugar or organic cane sugar would work great.
Thanks Halle 🙂
Hmm…wonder what I did wrong…the dough was too wet. I added more spelt but still didn’t help much. My dough definitely did not turn out looking like the pic. Anyone else have to add more flour than recipe calls for?
Julie, did you ever figure this recipe out? i want light and airy spelt rolls, but like you, I had to add additional spelt flour, and mine also fell in the last moments in the oven, so they were night light and airy. Do you know what I’m doing wrong?
Thanks,
Sara
I’ve made these a few times for my husband, who has a wheat allergy, and he absaloutly loves them. The only issue is, they are a little bit small for all the stuff he wants to cram into them. I’m attempting to make them larger today. Any suggestions on cooking time? Much appropriated
I am so glad that you are enjoying them. Just keep them in an extra 10 minutes and be sure to keep checking on them.. Let us know how they turn out.
They turned out fab! I kept to the suggested 10 minutes, but popped the fan on. 6 light, fluffy man-sized rolls 🙂
I can hardly wait to surprise my wife and daughter with these tomorrow. I’ve been the proverbial dog house, because I ate a batch of yeast rolls (not all a once, however) my wife purchased and was saving for Christmas dinner. Oops! Thank you so much for posting this recipe.
How did they turn out! Hope she liked them 🙂
How do you think these would turn out if I let them sit to rise a little for say, a half our or so, if I had the time? Sorry if this is a silly question, I am new to making dinner rolls! 🙂
Does this dough freeze well?
I had the same problem as Julie, my dough was far too wet and sticky. I couldn’t make rolls out of them at all because the dough was just sticking to my hands. I only deviated from the recipe by using honey and not sugar. Maybe I used too much honey? In the end I added approx 1 more cup of wholemeal spelt flour to the mixture to solve the problem and they turned out beautifully. They were very tasty and very light. A great recipe (once I work out how much flour to use). Thanks