Fluffy butternut squash rolls with sage

Homemade butternut squash rolls recipe! Pillowy soft and fluffy dinner rolls made with butternut squash and sage. Perfect for your Thanksgiving table or holiday dinner.

Course bread, Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword holiday, thanksgiving

Prep Time 45

Cook Time 25

Rising time 40

Total Time 1 50

Servings rolls

Calories 116.3kcal

Author Trish Bozeman

Ingredients

1 ½ cups finely cubed butternut squash
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoon sugar
1 packet Fleischmann's® RapidRise Yeast (2-¼ tsp.)
½ teaspoon salt
½ cup milk
¼ cup water
2 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 teaspoon ground sage

Instructions

Place the butternut squash in a medium microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Stir and microwave for another 3 minutes or until very soft and easy to mash. Mash with a fork until well mashed.
Combine ¾ cup flour, sugar, dry yeast and salt in a large mixer bowl and stir until blended.
Combine milk, water and butter in a small microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on HIGH in 15 second increments until very warm but not hot to the touch (120° to 130°F. Butter won’t melt completely).
Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture along with the butternut squash mash and the sage.
Beat 2 minutes at medium speed of electric mixer, scraping bowl occasionally. Add ¼ cup flour; beat 2 minutes at high speed. Stir in just enough of the remaining flour (1 to 1-¼ cups) so that the dough will form into a ball.
Knead on lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic and springs back when lightly pressed with 2 fingers, about 6 to 8 minutes. Cover with a towel; let rest for 10 minutes.
Cut dough into 12 equal pieces; shape into balls using your hands. Place in greased 8-inch round or square pan. Cover with towel; let rise in warm place until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
Bake in preheated 375ºF oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pan by running a knife around the edges and invert onto wire rack; brush with additional melted butter, if desired. Serve warm.

Notes

The milk mixture took us 4, 15-second increments in the microwave until it was warm enough.

It took us 1 cup of flour to make the dough form into a ball.

We used butter to grease the pan for baking.

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