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Dough Balls – Nicky’s Kitchen Sanctuary


Mushy, fluffy dough balls baked tear-and-share type within the oven. Serve along with your favorite dip (see my favourites under, together with my beer cheese dip), make mini sliders (roast beef and gravy makes an amazing filling!), brush them with garlic butter, or use to swipe up the pasta sauce on the backside of your bowl.

A round cast iron pan filled with golden-brown dough balls, garnished with chopped parsley and salt. The pan is set on a wooden table beside a bowl of beer cheese dip and a dark cloth serviette.

These Dough Balls come along with a number of substances you’ll find in your pantry (solely six substances, to be precise)! And belief me, that comfortable, fluffy inside is SO price it.

I take advantage of milk within the dough (as a substitute of water) to complement the bread, making it richer and fluffier than common bread rolls.

You received’t imagine how rapidly 30 of those dough balls disappear!

📋 Components

Overhead view of baking ingredients for dough balls on a wooden table: a bowl of flour, a jar of milk, blocks of butter, small dishes of sugar and salt, measuring jug with oil, and two packets of yeast. Overhead view of baking ingredients for dough balls on a wooden table: a bowl of flour, a jar of milk, blocks of butter, small dishes of sugar and salt, measuring jug with oil, and two packets of yeast.

Dry Components – Robust white bread flour, salt, caster sugar and instantaneous yeast.

Moist Components – Unsalted butter, heat milk, and slightly oil.

make it:

***Full recipe with detailed steps within the recipe card on the finish of this put up***

  1. First we add the dry substances to the blending bowl – being certain to maintain the salt and yeast on reverse sides of the bowl. Salt inhibits yeast, so it’s finest to maintain them separate after they’re of their strongest type (earlier than mixing). As soon as blended, the yeast really helps the yeast – by controlling the speed of fermentation and strengthening the gluten (in addition to including flavour).
  2. Add within the moist substances and blend utilizing the dough hook attachment till mixed, then proceed to run the mixer on low for 10 minutes to knead the dough. Alternatively, knead by hand, with an oiled board and palms. The dough will probably be sticky, and the oil prevents it from sticking. That is preferable to kneading it with a floured board (you’d want various flour to cease it from being sticky, and this is able to make the dough balls harder).
  3. Switch the dough into an oiled bowl, cowl and let it show till it’s doubled in measurement. As soon as doubled in measurement, fold it on a floured floor to knock the surplus air bubbles out of it.
  4. Divide the dough into equal, small balls, organize them in an oven-proof dish so every ball has slightly little bit of house away from the opposite. Cowl and let show for an additional half an hour.
  5. Uncover and bake within the oven till golden brown on high. As soon as cooked, take them out of the oven and brush with slightly melted butter and also you’re able to serve!

Professional Tip

Brush melted butter on the dough balls while nonetheless heat to offer the dough balls a pleasant sheen and to maintain them additional comfortable.

That golden buttery exterior and the fluffy, barely candy inside make the right appetiser or facet dish.

A hand holding a soft, golden-brown dough ball with a fluffy interior. In the background, a dish is filled with more dough balls, that are topped with chopped parsley.A hand holding a soft, golden-brown dough ball with a fluffy interior. In the background, a dish is filled with more dough balls, that are topped with chopped parsley.

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🍽️ What to serve it with


A close-up of a dough ball, on a green plate topped with creamy orange beer-cheese sauce and garnished with parsley. More dough balls are visible in the background, in a white dish. A bowl of cheese sauce sits beside it on a wooden table.A close-up of a dough ball, on a green plate topped with creamy orange beer-cheese sauce and garnished with parsley. More dough balls are visible in the background, in a white dish. A bowl of cheese sauce sits beside it on a wooden table.

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? Regularly Requested Questions

Can I make this forward?

I like serving these recent out of the oven, while they’re nonetheless recent, fluffy, and heat. Nevertheless, they keep good and comfortable for a day or two, saved in an hermetic container at room temperature.

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  • Place the flour in a meals mixer bowl with dough hook attachment. Add the salt and sugar to 1 facet of the bowl, and the moment yeast to the opposite facet (yeast and salt don’t wish to be in direct contact).

    500 g (4 cup + 1 tbsp) sturdy white bread flour, 2 tsp salt, 25 g (3 tbsp) caster sugar, 10 g (3 tsp) instantaneous yeast

  • Add within the butter and milk. Flip the mixer on to a medium velocity and let it combine the dough substances, then let run for 7-8 minutes. The dough will probably be moist and sticky at first, however will probably be comfortable and clean in direction of the tip.

    30 g (2 tbsp) unsalted butter, 330 ml (1 1/2 cups) heat (however not scorching) milk

  • Wipe slightly oil across the inside of a big bowl and switch the dough to the bowl. Cowl with clingfilm and permit to show in a heat room for about an hour, till doubled in measurement.

    1 tbsp oil

  • As soon as the dough has doubled in measurement, flip it out onto a calmly floured floor and knock the air again out of it by folding it in on itself repeatedly.

  • Divide the dough into small, equal measurement items, weighing roughly 30g every. Roll every portion right into a ball. Organize the dough balls in a big oven-proof dish. Depart slightly little bit of house between every ball to allow them to increase. Cowl the dish in clingfilm and depart to show for an additional 30-40 minutes.

  • Preheat the oven to 190C/375F (fan).

  • As soon as the dough has proved, take away the clingfilm and place the dish within the oven within the oven for 20-25 minutes till the dough balls are golden.

    1 tbsp unsalted butter

  • Take out of the oven and brush the melted butter on the rolls while they’re nonetheless scorching. Depart the dough balls to chill for 10 minutes earlier than serving.

Can I make dough balls forward?

I like serving these recent out of the oven, while they’re nonetheless recent, fluffy, and heat. Nevertheless, they keep good and comfortable for a day or two, saved in an hermetic container at room temperature.
Dietary data is approximate, per dough ball, (based mostly 30 dough balls on this recipe).

Energy: 86kcal | Carbohydrates: 14g | Protein: 3g | Fats: 2g | Saturated Fats: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 0.3g | Monounsaturated Fats: 1g | Trans Fats: 0.1g | Ldl cholesterol: 5mg | Sodium: 163mg | Potassium: 37mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 55IU | Vitamin C: 0.001mg | Calcium: 17mg | Iron: 0.2mg

Diet data is routinely calculated, so ought to solely be used as an approximation.

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