My husband loves homemade ham salad so on Monday I took out the ham, the food processor, the Victorinox knife and all the other items needed to get this done. It was quick and very easy.
Homemade Ham Salad
1/2 lb. leftover ham - cut ham into 1 inch cubes or if you have sliced ham, cut it into 1 inch strips.
1 Tablespoon mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon relish
In the bowl of your food processor add all ingredients, pulse for only a few seconds until you achieve the consistency that you like for ham salad. If you over pulse, you will end up with ham spread, which will still taste good if that's what you like.
Adjust the amounts to taste. I like my ham salad on the dry side, so I don't use much mayo.
Rough chop & done! |
On this same Monday, my sister in law was coming for lunch. I thought I'd attempt some freshly baked Kaiser rolls to go with the ham salad. The rolls came out smaller than I expected, but were amazingly delicious non the less. I found a couple recipes I liked and took the best from each recipe and came up with this:
Mini Kaiser Rolls
Bread Machine & Manual Instructions
Bread Machine & Manual Instructions
This was my first attempt at making these rolls. A few of them "unknotted", but they tasted delicious and I will be making them again! So very much better than store bought.
Makes: 16 mini rolls
If you have a bread machine, put the below ingredients in your machine and select the Dough cycle. When the dough is ready, follow the remainder of the instructions shown in the photos below.
1 large egg (whisked well)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter (softened)
3/4 cup water
3 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 1/2 teaspoons instant yeast
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
If you do not have a bread machine:
In a large bowl, or the bowl of your electric mixer, combine all of the ingredients, stirring till the dough forms a cohesive mass and begins to clear the sides of the bowl. Knead the dough for 5 minutes, then allow it to rest for 10 minutes (which gives the dough a chance to absorb the liquid, and the gluten in the flour a chance to relax.) Knead the dough for an additional 5 minutes, or until it's smooth and supple. The dough should be quite stiff, but not at all "gnarly;" adjust its consistency with additional flour or water, as necessary. Transfer the dough to a lightly greased bowl or dough-rising bucket, cover the bowl or bucket, and allow the dough to rise in a warm area to rise until it's noticeably puffy, about 35 min. or so.
After the dough has risen, place it on a cutting board and follow the below instructions.
Optional: Brush tops with egg wash (one beaten egg) and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Bake at 400 for 10 - 12 minutes.
There are many bread machines to choose from. They are not all created equal. Many end up at thrift shops or yard sales. I've tried a few, and these are affordable and work extremely well.
For this recipe, I used my Sunbeam Bread Machine.
There are many bread machines to choose from. They are not all created equal. Many end up at thrift shops or yard sales. I've tried a few, and these are affordable and work extremely well.
For this recipe, I used my Sunbeam Bread Machine.
This Oster bread machine is another one of my gadgets. I use both machines equally. It's handy to have two when I want to make two at the same time.
Dough after coming out of bread machine |
Cut dough in half. Then cut each half in half again until you have four quarters. |
Continue cutting the four quarters into sections of four. Ending up with 16 pieces of dough. |
Cross one end over the other. |
Make a knot. |
It sound harder than it actually is. Here is what it should look like. |
This is how they look after 30 min. Puffy. The tops got a tiny bit crusty, but it didn't effect the final baking. |
After baking this is how they looked. We "tested" four, that is why there are only 12 in this photo. |
Picture perfect and delicious dinner rolls. We put our ham salad in lettuce cups and had the rolls on the side. They were big enough to cut in half, but we ate them "as is". |
Hey Cheryl,
ReplyDeleteThose rolls look great! And the ham salad sounds so good I think I'll make it for dinner tonight.
~Kay
Kay, I was revisiting this page to see if I could use this recipe to make "kolaches" and was curious to know if you ever did make these and how they came out.
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