Bread Machine Sweet Potato Rolls

More success with the bread machine! Yeah! I mixed this roll dough in the bread machine and then baked them in the oven. They were super easy (though they did take some time to rise). These sweet potato rolls have a great texture and orange-ish color, but they do not have a strong sweet potato flavor. Their flavor is very subtle.

Mmm, homemade sweet potato rolls!

Ingredients: 

1/2 c warm water

1 medium cooked and mashed sweet potato (I cut mine up and boiled it)

4 tbsp brown sugar

3 tbsp softened butter

2 eggs

1 + 1/8 c whole wheat flour

2 + 1/2 c all-purpose flour
2 tbsp vital wheat gluten (not necessary if you're using bread flour)

2 tsp salt

1.5 tsp bread machine yeast

You want this dough to be pretty dry. It should be easy to handle, because you're going to create little balls out of the dough and then put them in a greased baking pan to rise and bake. I used pie pans, and my dough balls looked like this:

After rising for about 45 minutes, they looked like this:

Stick em in the oven at 375 for 15 or 20 minutes, and you've got some awesome rolls for fall and winter! Great rolls for a soup or stew. I served mine with roasted chicken and vegetables.

For these rolls, I adapted a recipe from Allrecipes. It provides instructions for preparing the rolls without a bread machine, using slightly different ingredients.