See my multi-grain hoagie roll recipe, too!
We love French dips and meatball sandwiches and sub sandwiches around here, but the price of hoagie rolls is ridiculous. $3 for a pack of 6 smaller rolls – and there are 4 of us, so I’d have to buy two packs and have 4 left for lunch the next day. It really made a frugal meal like meatball subs into an expensive treat.
I love baking bread, so I don’t know why it took me so long to figure out that I could make my own sandwich rolls, but for some reason, it did. A couple months ago, I decided to try. The first recipe I tried was super-tasty but a little too chewy for us for sandwiches, but then I found one and (of course) adapted it. Here you go:
Homemade Hoagie Rolls
(Or sandwich rolls, or sandwich buns, or submarine rolls)
Hoagie rolls, ready for meatball subs
2 teaspoons yeast
1 cup of water
3 cups flour (for hoagies, I use all purpose, but use up to half whole wheat, if you’d like)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup powdered milk
1/2 cup instant potato flakes
3 tablespoons butterIf you are using regular yeast, dissolve it in the water (with the water being lukewarm) with a pinch of the sugar. Let it sit and get bubbly, about 5-10 minutes. I use instant yeast, so I just dump it in with the rest of the ingredients.
Combine all the ingredients in the bowl of your stand mixer, and knead with the dough hook for about 5 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic. It’ll still be somewhat sticky. Remove it from the bowl just long enough to grease the bowl, and put the dough back in and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Let it rise for about an hour or until it’s almost double.
Gently dump the dough on a lightly floured counter and divide it in half, and then each half in half, and then each of THOSE portions in half. Now you’ve got eight portions. Shape each into a thick log of dough – keep in mind that these are going to get a lot thicker as they rise and then again in the first few minutes in the oven.
Put your logs onto a greased cookie sheet or half sheet (or use parchment), trying to keep them from touching. Cover with that same dish towel and let rise for another hour. They’ll be really puffy and touching one another. When they are close to being done rising, pre-heat your oven to 350°. Bake the sandwhich rolls until they are golden brown on top and lighter on the sides, about 15-20 minutes.
Remove from the oven and brush the tops with the butter. After a few minutes, transfer them to a cooling rack.
Makes 8.
This post is linked to:
- Frugal Friday
- Foodie Friday
- Food on Fridays
- Hooked on…
- Family Recipe Fridays
- Grocery Cart Challenge Recipe Swap
October 9th, 2009 | 
Tags: 
Category: 
Thanks! Good tip. I love these kind of sandwiches, and I like making my own bread but often it’s too dense for sandwiches. Do you make hamburger buns with this too?
I haven’t made hamburger buns with this recipe yet, but the texture would be very good for them.
Sounds great!
Happy Foodie Friday…
XO,
Sheila
Thanks for sharing the recipe! It’s difficult to get a good hoagie roll unless you live in Philly! We’re only little over an hour away and still have trouble finding the GOOD rolls!
I have not had a real hoagie roll from Philly! I hope these are at least close.
This is a really good idea. I’ve made hamburger buns for years, but never thought of hoagie rolls. I also like your recipe. Thanks for sharing it with us. Have a great day.
I thought maybe you were nearby Philly since you use the term HOAGIE!
Funny, my aunt brought us hoagies yesterday from NEW JERSEY! They are really more of a Philly thing, but we can’t really find good ones here and we’re not that far!
I’ll have to try your rolls when I am brave enough to attempt homemade bread!
My family is from upstate New York, so I don’t know WHY we use that term, but we always have.
Don’t be afraid of bread! So many people are, but it’s really easy, and let’s face it, the ingredients are cheap if for some reason it doesn’t go well.
I think I need to do a step-by-step photo tutorial soon.
[...] 4. Hoosier Homemade( Pumpkin Cookies) 5. Yvonne@ Stone Gable 6. e- Mom (Crockpot Meatball Chili) 7. Odd Mom (hoagie rolls, sandwich rolls, whatever you call them) 8. Prudent and Practical (Kettle Corn!) 9. Kristia@ Family Balance Sheet (Cranberry Acorn Squash [...]
Ah, now around here, we call sandwiches like that “heroes.”
Or, at least that’s what we called them when I was growing up in NY.
No subs, no hoagies. Heroes.
These look extra delicious!
Cass
Heroes! I was thinking I was leaving one name for them out, but I couldn’t think of what it was. I bet if I’d called my mom, she’d have told me!