Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls

In a small saucepan, bring the 1 cup water and the coaches oats to a boil. Then turn the heat down to medium low and simmer for about 6 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to lukewarm.

Dissolve the yeast in the medium sized bowl of your stand mixer. Add 1/3 cup warm water and the sugar. Stir together then let it sit for 10 minutes.

Add the oats mixture into the yeast mixture along with the butter, salt, molasses, honey, wheat germ and milk. Use your electric mixer with the paddle attachment and mix everything together to combine.

Add one cup of whole wheat flour and two cups of all purpose flour. Mix until well combined. Clean off the paddle attachment, scrape the sides of the bowl and add the dough attachment to the mixer.

With the mixer going on low speed, add the remaining whole wheat flour a little at a time until the dough starts coming together.

After the remaining two cups of whole wheat flour are added, let the mixer knead the dough for a minute or so. If it is still sticking to the sides of the bowl, add about 1/4 cup of additional flour and let it mix in. Keep adding a little flour at a time until the ball of dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl. Let it knead for 8-10 minutes on medium-low speed. Remove the bowl from the mixer.

Take the dough out of the bowl and spray it with cooking spray. Return the ball of dough to the bowl, cover it with a towel or plastic wrap and let sit in a warm, dry place for an hour until doubled in size.

Punch down the dough and make 2.50 ounce sized balls of dough—–you’ll get about 19 rolls. Set them on a baking sheet and cover with a tea towel. Let them rise for about 45 minutes.

During the last 20 minutes of rise time, preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Fill a Dutch oven or oven safe pot with water and place it on the lowest shelf of the oven. This will add steam in the oven.

Brush the top of each roll with egg wash. Bake the rolls in the preheated oven for 17-23 minutes. (You may have to do this in two batches unless you have a huge oven). When done, remove the rolls from the oven. Let the rolls sit on the baking sheet for a few minutes. Then remove rolls from pan and place on a wire rack to cool completely.