417. barley broccoli rolls

Shhhh cooking secretly# 1

         I joined this group of enthusiast bloggers just recently. The initiator of this group is Priya of  Priya’s Versatile Recipes. She pairs members each month and they send each other two secret ingredients.We get a month to prepare the dish, be it a sweet or savoury one. The fun part is when fellow bloggers post the picture on the group’s facebook page and we have to try and guess the secret ingredients. Sometimes, the secret ingredients are obvious but most of the time very difficult to guess. The exciting part was waiting for the partner to give you the two ingredients. As soon as I got mine from Sandhya Ramakrishnan, broccoli and barley, the first thing that came to my mind was soup. Pretty obvious, then I thought of salad and finally debated between making pizza base with barley flour or the rolls. The rolls won and I enjoyed working with barley flour for the first time. I have joined four groups and each one presents a challenge every month for us to try out. When I served hubby dear with the rolls today, he simply asked what am I cooking tomorrow as a challenge! 
       Though the bread dough did not rise as much as the one I normally make with plain flour or wheat flour, it was not too difficult to handle. I will at some point try the barley flour pizza base. The bread did not brown easily like the other normal breads do, but overall I was pleased with the result. Its challenges like these that makes me take that one tiny extra step to do something different; otherwise it is so easy to just get into a comfort zone and be happy. Looking forward to the next two secret ingredients and in the process making a new blogger friend. In the meantime here is the recipe for my first challenge.

BARLEY BROCCOLI ROLLS
Makes about 10 to 12 rolls

For the bread dough:
2 cups barley flour
1 cup plain flour (all purpose flour, bread flour)
2¼ tsp instant dry active yeast
1-1½ tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp olive oil
1 plus 2 tbsp warm water

For the filling:
1 cup broccoli small florets
1 cup chopped spinach or baby spinach
3 – 4 garlic cloves, sliced
 ½ cup grated cheese
¾ – 1 tsp salt
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp coarse pepper powder
1 tsp chilli flakes

For brushing and greasing olive oil
extra flour for dusting

Preparation of the bread dough:

1. Sift the barley and plain flour together. Add sugar, salt and yeast and mix well.
2. Rub the oil into the flour. 
3. Add warm water and form a soft dough.
4. Knead the dough for 10 to 15 minutes till it becomes soft and silky.
5. Make the dough into a big ball and rub oil over it.
6. Grease a bowl with oil.
7. Place the dough in the bowl. Cover with a cling film and let it rise for nearly 2 hours.

• Use any vegetable of your choice for filling.
• You can use any cheese of your choice.
• While kneading the dough, if it appears a bit hard add some more water. Different barley flours will absorb different quantities of water.
• I will probably add a bit more filling next time. This time round I was a bit scared that over filling it may cause the dough to break.
• Enjoy this healthy rolls without much guilt.

You may want to check out the following:

 

 

calzone

garlic rolls

 

stuffed masala buns

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