Sweet clay oven rolls

Clay oven roll is one of the traditional foods in Taiwan. It is a variety of baked flat and crispy bread with sesame on the top, often served with fried breadsticks or egg inside as breakfast. Some people like the sweet flavor one has a thin crispy layer and slight sweetness center. It’s also popular because of the aroma of freshly baked bread and crisp texture. Everyone should try this tasty recipe.

YIELD: 15~20 servings  | PREP TIME: 40 minutes | COOK TIME: 20 minutes

Ingredients

Sweet clay oven rolls Ingredients

Dough

  1. All-purpose flour (Plain flour) 470 g
  2. Salt 3 g
  3. Hot water 100 ml (90°C / 195°F)
  4. Water 200 ml
  5. Vegetable oil 20 ml
Pastry dough Ingredients

Pastry dough

  1. All-purpose flour (Plain flour) 160 g
  2. Vegetable oil 80 ml
sugar and sesame

Other

  1. A little sesame seeds
  2. Sugar

Tools & Equipment

Oven

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Rolling Pin

Rolling Pin
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Instructions

1. To make the dough. Add all-purpose flour, salt, and hot water in a mixing bowl. Roughly stir the flour quickly with chopsticks.

Add all-purpose flour
add salt
add hot water
Roughly stir the flour quickly with chopsticks

2. Add water and oil to the mixing bowl and stir by hand until the mixture forms a dough. Cover the surface with cling wrap and rest the dough for 30 minutes.

Add water
add oil
stir by hand
stir by hand until the mixture forms a dough
forms a dough
Cover the surface with cling wrap

3. While waiting time, we can make pastry dough. Add vegetable oil to a nonstick frying pan on medium heat. Add all-purpose flour and mix until combined. Place aside.

Add vegetable oil to a nonstick frying pan on medium heat
Add all-purpose flour
mix until combined
mix until combined
pastry dough Place aside

4. After the dough rests for 30 minutes, divide the dough into small pieces (about 35 g) and cut pastry dough into equal parts (about 7 g). Knead the dough into a small circle, place a pastry dough filling in the middle, and wrap the dough around the filling. Repeat the same with the rest of the dough and pastry dough.

divide the dough into small pieces part 1
divide the dough into small pieces part 2
cut pastry dough into equal parts
Knead the dough into a small circle
wrap the dough around the filling
wrap the dough around the filling
Repeat the same with the rest of the dough and pastry dough

5. Flatten the pastry dough and roll it up. Flatten and roll up again. Repeat these two steps for each small dough.

Flatten the dough
Flatten the dough
roll it up
roll it up
again
Flatten again
roll up again
Repeat these two steps for each small dough

6. Preheat the oven to 250°C/480°F.

7. Roll the dough into a small circle. Place one teaspoon of sugar filling in the center of a piece of dough. Fold in the edges to cover the filling and dip the top into sesame seeds.

Knead the dough into a small circle
Place one teaspoon of sugar filling in the center of a piece of dough
Fold in the edges to cover the filling
Fold in the edges to cover the filling
form a ball
dip the top into sesame seeds

8. Use a rolling pin to plate the sesame dough into half-inch thick and place on the baking sheet. (Sesame face up).

Use a rolling pin to plate the sesame dough into half-inch thick
Use a rolling pin to plate the sesame dough into half-inch thick
Sesame face up
place on the baking sheet

9. Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven.

Bake for 12 minutes in the preheated oven

10. Serve the Sweet Clay Oven Rolls. 

Finish and enjoy

Note: Generally, you don’t need to keep in the fridge. But if your country has a warm and wet climate, I suggest storing it in the fridge and toast it before you eat.

Serve the sweet clay oven rolls