Telera rolls

In a large bowl or the bowl of your mixer, weigh out and add your all-purpose flour, salt, sugar, and instant yeast and stir to combine all of your dry ingredients, making sure there are no clumps. 

Weigh the rest of your ingredients and add them to the bowl. 

If using a stand mixer, knead for 8 minutes on medium speed. If you are kneading by hand, you will need about 15 minutes of kneading after all the ingredients are incorporated. The dough will be a bit sticky. 

Place your dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover. Let the dough rise in a warm place for 1 to 1.5 hours. The dough should be doubled in size. 

Remove dough from bowl to a lightly oiled counter and divide into 6 to 7 pieces. I like to weigh my dough portions at this point to keep them all fairly consistently sized. If you choose to make 7 rolls, they will yield slightly smaller sandwiches.

Roll each of your six pieces of dough on the counter into tight balls and allow them to rest under a clean kitchen towel for 10 or 15 minutes. After that period of time has elapsed, press and shape each ball into a roughly flat 5-inch by 3-inch oval and place each dough oval on a parchment lined sheet pan.

Using a clean chopstick, the handle of a clean wooden kitchen spoon, or even a clean wooden dowel, press two deep parallel indentations in each dough oval similar to what you see here.  

Once you have indented each dough oval, cover them with lightly greased plastic wrap or a second sheet pan flipped over on top of the sheet pan you're using. 

Let the shaped dough rise for another hour or an hour and a half until they are nearly doubled in size.

Near the end of your final proofing time, preheat your oven to 400 degrees F (205 °C). 

Bake your rolls for 15 to 20 minutes, rotating the sheet pan halfway through the baking time. I typically bake for 10 minutes and then rotate and come back in another 8 to 10 minutes to see what my level of brownness looks like. At that point, your rolls should be done all the way through, you're just trying to get them to the color you prefer. 

Remove rolls from the oven, allow to cool for at least an hour before slicing.