Onion hotdog rolls

[Katiej]

Onion Hotdog Rolls

My DH has been asking me for ages if I could make him a gourmet hotdog.  I found Dan Lepard's “onion seed hotdog roll” recipe online and thought it looked interesting.  I really wanted to convert the recipe to make it in my TMX (but after the Dan Lepard saga earlier in the year I wasn’t really sure if I really wanted to do one of his recipes), but I decided to try it anyway.

They are nice served with German or Italian continental sausages, onions, mustard and sauce.  More a sausage in a roll than a gourmet hotdog, but my DH was happy 

Dan Lepard’s recipe is readily available online on The Guardian website.


Ingredients:

About 400g onions, cut in quarters
A little olive oil
2 teaspoons Nigella seeds (or fennel seeds)
75ml cold milk
1 large egg
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons dry yeast
500g strong white bakers flour
100g strong wholemeal flour
200ml warm water


Chop the onions, 2 seconds speed 5

Heat the olive oil in a frypan and gently cook the onions for 10-15 minutes until they're soft, golden brown and have lost most of their moisture.

Clean and dry the TMX bowl.

Let the onions cool slightly, then scrape into the TMX bowl along with the other ingredients and knead for 4 minutes. Add a little more water if necessary.

Leave in the TMX bowl until it has doubled in size.

Remove the dough to a floured silpat mat, then divide the dough into eight (don’t cut with a knife as you will damage the mat).  Shape into balls, roll each up into a tight sausage and place seam-side down and touching on two oven trays lined with baking paper. 

Cover and leave for an hour and a half.  Spray with water and sprinkle top with nigella and/or sesame seeds. 

Bake at 200C for 20 to 25 minutes.

[judydawn]

Nice to see you post your first bread conversion recipe Katie, it looks & sounds like a winner to me.  Wonder what DH's next request will be   

[Aussie Brenda]

Katie they look awsome, I bet they taste even better.

[achookwoman]

Katie,  this is an OUTSTANDING conversion of this recipe to Tmx.  Hope there are many more to come.. 

[Katiej]

Thanks for the kind words and encouragement 

[chrissa]

Wow Katie, they look great.

I might give those a go when summer arrives and DH wants sausages on the BBQ just to be a little bit fancy

[meganjane]

What's the texture like Katie? Is it soft and dry or quite moist? They certainly look lovely.

[Katiej]

The texture was quite soft and not unlike a normal hotdog type bread roll.  The onions add more to the taste and not the texture, they don't make the bread overly moist.

I would have preferred mine weren't quite so brown on top.

[JulieO]

Lovely looking rolls Katie, well done for your first conversion!  You've made me want to make these. 

[EmeraldSue]

Thanks for this conversion. I made these rolls for dinner tonight, and they were delicious. Mine browned a lot on top too.

[Frozzie]

Yum katie

[Katiej]

They looked great ES 
I'm glad you enjoyed them!

[cookie1]

I think it is time to have hot dogs again.

[obbie]

hot dogs look good.

[Katiej]

Some years my DH gets together with his Crows mates on AFL Grand Final day, but this year he didn't so I decided to make him a footy hotdog for lunch.

I started making the dough and was surprised there was milk and an egg in the dough (gee I hope the person who wrote the recipe knows what she's doing I thought to myself he he).  They turned out really nice. DH was very pleased with his hotdog and washed it down with a beer!