Description
Old family recipe that my family made for me when I was a little girl back in Samoa.
Ingredients
- 1 (12 ounce) package frozen dinner rolls dough, thawed
- 15 ounces water, divided
- 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
Instructions
- Arrange rolls in a 9×13-inch baking dish
- cover the dish with plastic wrap
- and let rise until doubled in size
- about 30 minutes.
- Combine 14 ounces water
- coconut milk
- and sugar in a saucepan. Whisk remaining water and cornstarch together in a small bowl. Bring coconut milk mixture to a boil
- whisk in cornstarch mixture
- reduce heat to medium-low
- and simmer
- stirring occasionally
- until sauce thickens
- about 3 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove plastic wrap from rolls.
- Bake rolls in the preheated oven for 10 minutes. Pour coconut sauce over rolls until at least half of each roll is covered in sauce. Return rolls to oven; continue baking until rolls are golden brown
- 5 to 10 minutes more. Cool in the baking dish
- 3 to 5 minutes
- before serving warm.
Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 20 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 12