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Honey Spent Grain Dinner Rolls

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Spent grains, or leftover grains from beer making, make a delicious flour for baking. These honey spent grain dinner rolls are dense, chewy and so flavorful!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup spent grain flour (from 2 cups dehydrated spent grain)
  • 2 1/4 tsp quick rise yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2/3 cup cow’s milk (or soy milk)
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 TBS each: honey and melted butter
  • 1 1/3 cups bread flour
  • Splash olive oil
  • 1 TBS butter, melted

Instructions

  1. Mix together spent grain flour, yeast, and salt in a large bowl.
  2. In a liquid measuring cup, mix together milk and water. Heat in a microwave until the mixture is 125 F, checking frequently. If the mixture gets too hot, let it sit until the temperature comes down to 125 F. If it is too hot, it will kill your yeast, and if it’s too cold, the yeast won’t be activated.
  3. Mix the warm water mixture into the spent grain flour mixture with the melted butter and honey. Stir to completely combine and let this rest for 10 minutes so the grains will soak up the liquid.
  4. Mix in 1 cup bread flour, and stir until a shaggy dough forms.
  5. Dust a clean working surface (counter top) with 1 TBS flour, and place the shaggy dough in the flour. Dust another TBS flour on the top of the dough and use your hands to knead the dough (see notes), adding more flour as necessary (up to 1/3 cup flour) to keep the dough from sticking to you, or the counter.
  6. Knead for 10 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic. If you poke it with a floured finger, it should spring back slightly. (This is a dense dough and will not spring back as much as other dough recipes.)
  7. Pour a splash of olive oil into the dough bowl. Put your kneaded dough into the bowl and turn it to coat with oil. Place in the microwave (or another draft free, warm location) and let rise for 30 minutes.
  8. Punch down the risen dough and knead it until smooth again (about 1 minute). Divide the dough in half, and the halves into thirds. Cut each third in half, and you should have 12 relatively equal portions.
  9. Roll each portion into a smooth looking ball. Poke your thumb into the bottom of the roll, and pull the dough back down into a neat ball at the base. This will increase the tension on the surface of the roll, causing it to rise better.
  10. Place each roll on a parchment lined baking sheet so that they are just touching each other. Coat all the rolls with melted butter and set in a warm, draft free place to rise for 30 minutes.
  11. Preheat the oven to 350 F.
  12. Bake risen rolls in the oven for 25 minutes, or until golden, and starting to look dry on top.

Notes

To knead dough, press it out with your palm onto the working surface. Flip in back in over top of itself and press again. Continue this motion to stretch the gluten in the flour, and make an elastic dough.

Find it online: https://www.alisonsallspice.com/honey-spent-grain-dinner-rolls/