Best Cornmeal Dinner Rolls Recipes

CORNMEAL ROLLS

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine 1-3/4 cups water, cornmeal, sugar, oil and salt. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil, about 9-11 minutes. Cool to 120°-130°. Place in a large bowl. Dissolve yeast in remaining water; add to cornmeal mixture. Add eggs; beat until smooth. Stir in enough flour to make a soft dough. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45-60 minutes. , Punch dough down. Shape into 24 balls. Place on greased baking sheets; brush with butter and sprinkle with cornmeal. Let rise, uncovered, until doubled, about 30 minutes. , Bake at 375° for 18-20 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately remove from pan; serve warm.

CORNMEAL PAN ROLLS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, cornmeal, sugar, yeast and salt. In a small saucepan, heat water and 2 tablespoons butter to 120°-130°. Add to dry ingredients; beat until moistened. Add egg; beat on medium speed for 3 minutes. , Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. , Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; divide into 18 pieces. Shape each piece into a ball. Place in a greased 13x9-in. baking pan or two 9-in. round baking pans. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 30 minutes. , Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown. Melt remaining butter; brush over rolls. Invert onto wire racks.

GRANDMA PEGGY'S CORNMEAL ROLLS

Steps:

• Cook milk, cornmeal, butter or margarine, sugar, and salt in medium saucepan until slightly thickened. Add 1/2 cup water and mix well. Set aside to cool. Soften active dry yeast in warm water (110 degrees F). Combine cornmeal mixture, yeast, and 2 well-beaten eggs. Add enough flour to make a soft dough. Place in greased bowl, turning once to grease surface and cover. When dough has doubled in size, cut and shape dough into dinner rolls. Let rise in warm place, about 1 hour. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Bake rolls for 12 to 15 minutes.

CORN MEAL DINNER ROLLS

Steps:

• 1. Combine 3 cups of flour with yeast in a large mixer bowl with paddle attachment. In a small saucepan, heat together milk, cream, sugar, butter and salt until butter is melted and the temp is between 110 and 120 degrees. This happens fairly fast...if you go over the 120, allow to cool until proper temperature. If milk mixture is to hot is will kill your yeast. But not warm enough it won't be able to grow either. I use a candy thermometer to check the temp.
• 2. When milk mixture is the proper temperature. Add to yeast mixture. Mix together well with paddle attachment then add eggs, beat on low for 30 seconds, scraping bowl often. Then on high speed for 3 minutes.
• 3. Then add corn meal to the mixture, mixing on low until combined. When combined, switch to dough hook and on low start to add remaining flour, 1/2 c at a time. Until dough is smooth and pulling away from sides of bowl rounding itself into a ball form. (3-5 min.) See photo, that picture shows the dough in the ball shape that has formed after pulling from the sides of bowl. (you may not need all the flour and some days you may need a little more) Shape into a ball and place in a bowl wiped down with olive oil, flip over to coat both sides, cover with plastic wrap then a towel and set in draft free warm area to rise.
• 4. Once dough as doubled in size (approx 1 hr) Turn dough out onto lightly floured counter top, punch down, cover with towel and let rest 10-15 minutes. Then shape into balls a little larger than a golf ball. (approx 1/4 c or 2-3 oz of dough) Place on sprayed jelly roll pans or cookie sheets about 1" apart, I get 24 on a jelly roll pan. I line my pans with foil then spray or parchment paper. Cover with towel and again place in warm draft free spot. Let rise until doubled in size. (approx 30-45 min)
• 5. Place pans into a preheated oven at 350 for 18-20 min. Until tops are turning a pretty golden brown! (175ish degrees internal temp) Remove from oven and brush with melted butter, if desired. Placing pans on cooling racks for 15 minutes, then remove buns to racks to cool completely.
• 6. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A MIXER WITH A DOUGH HOOK: After you have mixed in the corn meal add one cup of flour and mix in, then remove from mixer, and stir in as much flour as you can with a wooden spoon. Then turn out onto a floured surface. Kneading in enough remaining flour to make a moderately stiff dough that is smooth and fairly elastic. About 6-8 min. Shape into a ball and place in a bowl wiped down with olive oil, flip over to coat both sides, cover with a towel and set in draft free warm area to rise.
• 7. A HELPFUL HINT ~ I use my large cookie dough scooper (1/4 c size) to make the buns. That's the easiest way I've found to get even sized buns without a scale if you have a scale, make 2-3 oz dough balls.

CORNMEAL ROLLS

Steps:

• Place milk and salt in a large saucepan over medium heat, and bring to a simmer. Gradually whisk in cornmeal. Cook the mixture, stirring, until cornmeal is thickened, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat, and set aside to cool.
• In the detached bowl of an electric mixer, whisk together yeast, water, and brown sugar. Set aside until mixture is foamy, about 10 minutes.
• Attach bowl to mixer fitted with the dough-hook attachment. With the mixer on low speed, add cooled cornmeal mixture and 2 beaten eggs. Slowly add enough flour to form a soft dough. Knead on medium-low speed until dough springs back when pressed with a finger, about 5 minutes. Brush a large mixing bowl with olive oil. Place dough in bowl; cover bowl with oiled plastic wrap. Set aside until doubled in size, about 3 hours.
• Sprinkle two 13-by-18-inch baking sheets with cornmeal. Turn dough out onto a floured work surface. Divide dough into 3-ounce portions. Roll each portion of dough into a ball. Place balls of dough 1 1/2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Cover with oiled plastic wrap. Set aside to rise until dough does not spring back when pressed with a finger, about 30 minutes.
• Heat oven to 375 degrees. Brush the top of each roll with the remaining beaten egg and sprinkle with cornmeal. Using a sharp knife, cut two parallel slits in the top of each roll. Bake rolls until they are golden, about 20 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool for at least 5 minutes before serving.