You only need 7 simple ingredients to create the most fluffy, buttery, tender and the best homemade dinner rolls!
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I am a sides loving person. I mean who can resist the comfort of warm and fresh from oven dinner rolls! Our easy dinner roll recipe today easily outruns the main dishes on table.
Buttery, soft and oh-so-puffy in the centers!
Does the thought of baking bread from scratch haunts you?
Seems like you are about to feel super confident after baking these rolls.
Even if you are a beginner. These best homemade dinner rolls are that easy. I guarantee!
Dinner rolls ingredients
- Flour- All purpose flour. You can also use bread flour, it will produce chewier rolls
- Yeast- You can use Active dry yeast or instant
- Milk- Full fat milk works best in dinner rolls and it creates a rich dough
- Sugar- To lightly sweeten the rolls. It also feed the yeast and increases its capacity to work
- Butter- To create soft, tender and flavor rich rolls
- Egg- To give structure to the dough
- Salt- For flavor
These are truly the simplest and super easy dinner rolls. No mixer, few pantry ingredients, easy to follow steps. And you are rewarded with the most flavorful and texture rich dinner rolls in under 2 hours.
Most of which is resting and baking time by the way! You will only be active for 20 min tops!
How to make dinner rolls?
- Let the yeast activate by adding it in warm milk and sugar
- Knead the dough
- Cover your dough and let it rise until double in volume
- Punch it down and shape into rolls
- Let the rolls rise to double again and bake till golden on top. Or till they sound hollow when tapped
- Top the rolls with melted salted butter
Pan to make dinner rolls
If you want your rolls to have crust on all sides, use a glass pan. A light colored pan works best for soft and golden crust rolls. I had dark colored ones, so ended up baking these in Chipotle lid! 😀
It worked so well! Love Mexican food and their lids. Oh and also Tres Leches!
How long do you knead yeast rolls?
About 6-8 minutes with hands. You can also make your dough in a stand mixer, bread machine or even a food processor.
What happens if you over knead dough?
Because dough will develop unnecessary gluten, the outcome of your bread can by dry. And not so fluffy on the inside. In case you over work the dough, let it rise for a longer period of time.
Dinner rolls need not be limited to dinner, enjoy them as breakfast, lunch. Or slathered with some blueberry jam. Yum!
How do you make dinner rolls rise faster?
By using the WARM OVEN METHOD. Heat your oven at 350 deg F for 2 minutes and turn it off. Place your oven proof dough bowl (covered with a damp towel) in the oven and close it. The dough is sure to rise quickly this way!
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Best Homemade Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 ½ Cup Milk (warmed to about 110°F)
- 4 Tbsp Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Active Dry Yeast (I used Red Star)
- 6 Tbsp Butter (melted)
- 1 Large Egg (room temperature, lightly beaten)
- 1 ½ tsp Salt
- 3-4 Cup All purpose flour
- 1 Tbsp Butter (for brushing on top)
Instructions
PROVING THE YEAST:
- Mix warm milk, yeast and 2 Tbsp sugar in a large mixing bowl and set aside for 5 minutes or until foamy.
MAKING THE DOUGH:
- 1. Melt and cool the butter completely. Add the remaining sugar, egg, butter, 3 cups of flour and salt to the bowl. Mix them all to combine well and develop gluten for 3-4 mins.
- 2. Now knead the dough and add flour in small increments as required to form a soft and pliable dough. The dough shouldn't be sticky but still be moist to touch. (You can make the dough in a stand mixer on medium speed, if you own one for 5-6 minutes, or until it comes together and pulls away from the sides.)
FIRST RISE:
- 1. Coat the dough in some oil, also oil the sides of bowl. Cover it with a kitchen towel or foil and let it rise in a warm environment until double in size.
- 2. Grease a baking 9x13" pan or 2 9 inches square/round pans and set them aside.
- 3. Punch the dough down after it is doubled.
SHAPING THE ROLLS:
- Divide the dough into 12-14 portions eyeballing it. Shape them into balls using your hands until smooth.
SECOND RISE:
- Place them in the prepared pan and cover with a damp towel. Again let them rise until double for about 30-45 minutes) in some place warm.
BAKING THE ROLLS:
- When you notice your rolls have risen halfway, preheat your oven to 375°F. Bake the well risen rolls for 25-30 minutes or until they are golden on the outside and sound hollow when tapped on top with a spoon/spatula.
- Remove the rolls from oven and brush with butter. Serve warm!
Notes
- How do you store dinner rolls overnight?
- How to freeze Dinner Rolls?
- Baked rolls can be frozen in a plastic bag foiled individually for upto a month.
- Unbaked rolls can be frozen after rolling individually. Place rolled balls in greased baking tray for 2-3 hours in freezer. Now you can store them in a freezer bag for 2 months.
- When ready to bake, thaw and let them rise in baking pan and bake as directed.
- How do you unfreeze a roll?
- How do you reheat bread rolls?
- How do you moisten dry dinner rolls?
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Thank you for good recipes that you are sharing. Keep up the good work.
If you are going to freeze the rolls unbaked, do you put the dough balls on a tray until the balls are frozen, then put the balls in plastic bag?? I'm assuming you don't put the balls and the tray in the baggie, right?
Yes Adele, you will freeze the balls on a tray until frozen and then transfer them into a plastic bag. 🙂
I made these tonight for Thanksgiving they were incredible! Simple healthy ingredients & they turned out so delicious!!! This will be my new go to recipe just make sure you allow plenty of time! So worth it!
Wow!! Forget picking them up at the grocery store.. these are so tender and fluffy and extremely easy to make. Homemade bread is alwasy the best!!
How soft and fluffy these homemade rolls are! Perfect for my Pav Bhaji 🙂
The pictures of these rolls just made me so hungry! They look so SO tasty and amazingly fluffy! Thank you for sharing this recipe!
Oh my gosh these look like they came from a restaurant! So light and fluffy. And I LOVE that you used the Chipotle lid 🙂 Genius hack move
Homemade dinner rolls are the best! They are so much better than store bought. I lost a family recipe years ago and have been trying to find the perfect recipe to make since then. I'm going to try this for a dinner party next week.
I love homemade bread and you make it sound easy to make. Thanks for sharing.
These look insanely soft and fluffy and delicious. Have you ever let them rise in the refrigerator to slow down the process a bit? Just wondering how that might work on those days when you really want fresh bread in the evening, but have to be out of the house during the day.
Oh sure it works perfectly well that way. I just make my dough in the night using a tsp of yeast. And keep the dough covered in refrigerator for 8-10 hours and shape the rolls for second rise when ready to bake!
Those dinner rolls look so fluffy and perfect! I feel like I don't have enough dinner rolls in my life so I need to make these!
I can't believe how easy they are too make! They're super fluffy and delicious right out of the oven. Yum!
These look just like the dinner rolls my grandma used to make when I was little! Can't wait to try this recipe for our upcoming Memorial Day celebration. Thanks for sharing such a great recipe!
I can't believe how fluffy and light these rolls look! They can be a wonderful edition to pretty much anything - be it savory dinner or sweet brunch. Yum!
These rolls are so fluffy! Can't wait to try this recipe!
So perfect and fluffy!! I love an easy homemade bread, and will definitely be trying out your suggestion of some warm berries as a topping!
I have yet to master dinner rolls. These look so fluffy. I have to give your recipe a try!
These dinner rolls remind me of some from my child hold! Making these soon.
Very soft and fluffy! Homemade bread is just unbeatable.
I love that these are done with only 8 ingredients, it makes them so easy to do!!