Olive Rosemary Spiral Rolls

I made these last year for Thanksgiving and the wonderful thing about them is that you can leave out ingreadents and they still come out wonderful. I'll write the orginal recipe and then my own I use.

Olive Rosemary Spiral Rolls

Things needed

1/2 cup pitted green olives, chopped, (about 2 oz)

1/4 cup fresh chopped parsely

1/2 tsp. dried crushed rosemary

1 pkg (16 oz) hot roll mix ( such as Pillsbury's)

1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese

1/4 tsp. coarse ground pepper

1 cup hot water
(120 to 130 degrees)

2 eggs divided

2 tbs. butter or margarine at room temperature


Preheat oven to 375. Coat 12 muffin pan cups with cooking spray.

Combine olives, parsley, and rosemary. Reserve.

In a large bowl, combine mix with yeast packet from mix, Parmesan and pepper. Stir in hot water, 1 egg and butter until dough forms.

On lightly floured surface, knead dough until smooth and elastic, 5 minutes. Cover and let rest for 5 minutes.



On a lightly floured surface, roll dough into 15"x 10" rectangle; sprinkle with reserved olive mixture to within 1/2" of edges.

Starting from long side, roll up dough.

Using a serrated knife cut dough roll in half. Cut each half into six slices.

Place rolls spiral side up in muffing cups. Cover with plastic wrap. Let rise in warm place until doubled, 30 minutes. Remove plastic.

Beat remaining egg, brush over rolls. Bake 18 minutes until golden.


Now my way I revised this is great if you have people in your family, like mine, that don't like olives. And are pressed for time as well.

Instead of getting the hot roll mix. Purchase the spiral dinner roll dough ( comes in the same packaging as premade bisquits.). This omits the yeast. While you have to unroll each individual roll to put the mix in, it's worth the extra time if you have those that don't like olives but can have the rest of the taste.

Unroll the rolls and place a small amount of mixture inside. Roll back up and place onto a cookie sheet. Cook the rolls as the package states. You also omit the egg part of the recipe but everything else is the same.

Doing it my way allows you to have both olive rolls and regular rolls. Just remember which ones are the olive. I do a mixure of black olives with green olives. Have fun and experiment.

This recipe can be used all year round.