Last week I saw a pizza roll recipe on YouTube and knew I have to make some pizza at some point, so saving the recipe seemed like a smart thing to do. I have my own recipe, but when it comes to pizza, I'm ready to try out new recipes. Today I finally had time to do magics in the kitchen, so I thought why not try out these pizza rolls for lunch. (Not exactly the typical lunch around here, but i couldn't care less.)
You probably know me by now, I'm most likely never following the original recipe to the letter as it's better to tailor it to my taste, rather than blindly follow it. It was the case this time as well. Not because the original recipe was not good, but because I liked my version better. The original recipe has too much pepper, which can make the rolls wet and can have a bitter taste too. Been there, done that, no thanks.
So the recipe that caught my eye was this one. I remember I watched the video, bookmarked it with the intention of finding it when I have the time. Today I dug it out, looked at the recipe in the description and started putting together the ingredients. My recipe is a double quantity as I knew one will not be enough, so if you want to compare my recipe with the original, please keep this in mind.
Ingredients
- 200ml lukewarm milk,
- 200ml lukewarm water,
- 120ml olive oil,
- 14g dry yeast (the recipe says 20g, but trust me, 14g is more than enough),
- 8g salt,
- 2tbs sugar,
- 840g flour (I used type 650, which is bread flour).
Ingredients For The Topping
- pizza sauce,
- grated cheese,
- diced ham.
Method
The method is very simple, you don't need any previous experience, but it's good to have some, as in my case it serves me well. Otherwise I would have been in trouble.
Start with adding the liquid ingredients to the mixing bowl. Add the salt, sugar, dry yeast and mix well.
Here you should slowly add the flour and start kneading, but I used the easy way and added the whole quantity of flour and made the mixer knead the dough. This is called smart working 😁.
After 10 minutes of kneading, the dough was ready. Covered with a plastic wrap, I let it rest for about an hour (recipe says 40 minutes, but one hour is fine).
After one hour rest, this was how my dough looked like. It doubled basically, which was the purpose.
After that, on a floured surface, I knead the dough a bit, then divided it in two.
I tried my best to roll it out nicely, to get a rectangle shape, but I suppose that needs more practicing.
This is when I went rogue again. The original recipe doesn't have pizza sauce, but as I have my own, homemade sauce, I thought why not use it. So I spread the sauce on the dough. It looks awful as it has veggies in it and spices, but it tastes heavenly good.
The next step was to spread the ham and grated cheese on the dough, evenly.
After rolling it up, I got a 20 inch long roll.
I used my plastic spatula (or whatever you call that white plastic thing), and sliced it to 2mm slices.
The rolls look awful as I did not spend half an hour shaping them nicely. I'm guilty of that.
And this is where I went rogue again as did not follow the original recipe. What you see on the video is nice, golden brown as the author brushed the rolls with an egg yolk-oil mix, but I skipped that. The truth is, I saw no point in adding more calories to the rolls, just so they look better at the end. So I skipped that step.
In a preheated oven, I baked the rolls for about 40 minutes at 150°C.
My rolls are not exactly golden brown, but I couldn't care less as the taste is what counts. The photo shoot was not for a cooking magazine anyway.
So here's my roll, filled with ham and cheese.
And now let me tell you the adventure I had to go through today. As I mentioned above, I knew the process already as have watched the video before, so today I only checked the recipe at the description section, I thought that will be enough for me.
This is the screenshot of the recipe. As you can see, the first two positions are the same. I thought it's a mistake and only prepared the milk. It seemed a bit odd as 320ml liquid for 840g flour is not enough, but I trusted the recipe. (You usually need 300ml to 500g flour.)
When I added the ingredients to the mixer and after 3 minutes of kneading I saw there's no way of getting a soft dough out of the mix, I need to check the video again.
Turns out one of the first two ingredients should be water. So I needed to add 200ml warm water, then the dough was just perfect.
I'm mentioning this in case you want to make these pizza rolls, to save you from the trouble :) So as I said, no necessary skills are required here, but wouldn't hurt to have a bit of experience.
Soooo, pizza rolls anyone? 😏
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