Recipe: Spicy Cheesy Pinwheel Bread Rolls

A wee round of easy baking is a chance to serve up a simply scrumptious breakfast.
These rolls come out of the oven piping-hot, golden, melty with cheese, each swirl hiding a riot of flavours.
Recipe: Rama Muralidharan.

Ingredients

• 2 cups maida or all-purpose flour + extra for dusting rolling surface
• 1 cup aata or whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp salt

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• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp active dry yeast + ½ cup lukewarm water
• 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil + extra to grease the baking tray

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• ¼ cup mixed dry herbs like rosemary, parsley, basil, thyme, oregano
• 1 tbsp red chilly flakes
• Water

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• 2 tbsp flax seeds
• ¼ cup grated cheese

Method

• Add the sugar to the yeast-water mixture.
  Let it rest for 10 minutes till the mixture froths up.
• In a large bowl, mix the maida, aata, salt, yeast mixture.

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• Add a little water and make a smooth dough.
  Add in 2 tbsp of the olive oil and knead the dough well for 10 minutes.
• Cover and let rest 10 minutes.

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• Dust a flat surface with maida and roll out the dough into a large rectangle about ½ inch thick.
  Brush the surface with remaining 2 tbsp olive oil.
  Sprinkle the dried herbs, chilly flakes, flax seeds, evenly over the entire surface.

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• Roll up the dough into a log shape.
  Using a very sharp knife, cut 1-inch thick rounds off the log.
  Place each round, as it's cut, onto a greased baking tray, ½ inch apart.

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• Let the rounds rest on the tray in a warm place till they double in volume, about 1 hour.
  Do not poke the dough at this time.
• Bake the rolls for about 30 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 °C and serve hot, straight out of the oven.

Tips
Use the same maida-aata base, but instead of mixed spices and cheese, sprinkle the rolled-out rectangle with a mixture of brown sugar, cinnamon, raisins, other dried fruits, nuts and brush generously with butter and then roll up the dough into a log and follow the rest of the steps as per the recipe.