How to make easy and satisfying homemade dinner rolls!
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What’s dinner without a perfectly-paired bread to serve along with it? Incomplete! Really that depends on what you’re planning to serve for dinner, but most of the time you do want to serve a perfectly-paired bread to really bring the whole meal together. This is especially true if you’re having some guests over for a small dinner party.
Whether you’re hosting a dinner party or just making a wholesome weeknight meal for your family, freshly-baked dinner rolls are the perfect go-to small breads to serve just about any time! My recipe for these Easy Dinner Rolls turns out so perfect that your family or guests will think you picked them up at a restaurant!
It doesn’t take a whole lot to make perfect dinner rolls if you know what you’re doing. Luckily for you, I have broken my process down step by step so that you too can make a batch of these delicious dinner rolls easily, even if you’re a beginner baker. Here’s how I make hot and fresh Easy Dinner Rolls!
Roll Out the Equipment
First, let me go over my list of tools and equipment for this recipe. As with most other homemade bread recipes, this one includes several recipe phases which involve quite a few kitchen tools overall. Luckily though, most of these tools are quite common in households that like to bake often. Here’s what I use to make easy dinner rolls:
- Measuring spoons
- Measuring Cup
- Glass mixing bowl
- Blending whisk
- Plastic wrap or Disposable shower cap
- KitchenAid mixer
- Heat Mat
- 8×8 Baking Dish
- Dredge shaker
- Chop cutter
- Blending whisk
- Silicone pastry brush
Simple Dinner Roll Ingredients
Once you’ve rounded up the kitchen hardware, it’s time to gather up the ingredients. Lucky for us, this recipe doesn’t call for a lot of ingredients, just a handful of common ones. Here’s my ingredient list for easy and simple dinner rolls:
Dinner Rolls: ‘
- 2 ½ tsp Active Dry Yeast, or 1 envelope of dry yeast
- Here’s a simple tip on How to Test Yeast to make sure it’s still good to use.
- ¾ cup warm milk, temps about 120-130°F
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- Cooking spray oil
Roll Glaze:
- Milk
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour, to flour surface
How to Make Easy Dinner Rolls
Now let’s move on to the moment you’ve been waiting for: it’s time to make some perfectly scrumptious dinner rolls! This recipe makes 6 large rolls or 12 small rolls. One thing to keep in mind before getting started is that this recipe does require a lot of rise time for the bread dough. So just make sure you can set aside plenty of time before starting the recipe. Other than that, this is a simple and easy process, so let’s get started:
Prep:
- First, measure out all of the bread roll ingredients with the measuring cups and spoons.
- Then, in a glass mixing bowl, combine the warm milk, yeast, and sugar.
- Using a blending whisk, whisk the ingredients together until well combined and a little bubbly on top of the mixture.
- Then, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, or a disposable shower cap.
- Let the mixture sit for 10-15 minutes.
Bread dough:
- Next, prepare a standing mixer with a dough hook attachment.
- Pour the yeast mixture into the bowl of the standing mixer and add in the flour, salt, and melted butter. Mix the dough together on medium-low (2nd speed).
- Continue mixing until a big dough ball has formed.
- Next, spray another large glass bowl with some cooking oil spray.
- Place the dough ball in the greased bowl, and cover with plastic wrap or a disposable shower cap.
- Place the dough bowl on a heat pad, or in the warmest spot of your house. Cover the wrapped bowl with a kitchen towel, and let the dough rise for 1 to 1.5 hour. The dough is ready when it has doubled in size.
- Next, preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Then, use a dredge shaker to lightly flour a flat, even surface and use the chop cutter to cut the dough into 6 equal portions. Form the portions into 6 balls or rolls.
- For smaller dinner rolls, cut the dough into 12 portions. You may need 2 baking pans for 12 rolls.
- Lightly grease an 8×8 baking dish with cooking spray oil.
- Next, space the dough balls out evenly in the baking dish.
- Wrap the baking dish with plastic wrap or a disposable shower cap. Place the dish on the heat pad, or warmest spot of the house.
- Cover the wrapped dish with a kitchen towel.
- Let the rolls rise for another 30 minutes.
- Finally, bake the dinner rolls in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
Glaze:
- After removing the rolls from the oven, while they’re still hot, use a silicone brush to brush the freshly baked rolls with some milk. Enjoy!
How to Store Homemade Dinner Rolls
To store homemade dinner rolls: transfer the bread rolls to a Ziploc plastic bag, or wrap them in kitchen foil. Store the rolls at room temperature for about 5 days. Always remember to label the date on the outside of the bag or wrapping to keep up with freshness.
Simple Serving Ideas
These simple and scrumptious dinner rolls are perfect to pair with just about any meal idea you can think of! Here are some of my favorite simple dinner ideas and side suggestions, with a couple more bread recipes, so you can skip the dinner brainstorming for today:
- Quick Chicken Alfredo
- One-Pot Pasta
- Stuffed Peppers
- Stuffed Chili Peppers
- Grilled Chicken Breasts
- Baked Chicken Breasts
- Easy Coleslaw
- Shrimp on the Grill
- Summer Cucumber Salad
- Copycat Papa Murphy’s Mini Sweet Pizzas
Easy dinner rolls
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 ½ tsp Active Dry Yeast or 1 envolope of dry yeast
- ¾ cup milk about 120-130 °F
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter melted
- Cooking spray oil
Glaze
- Milk
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour to flour surface
Instructions
Starter
- First, measure out all of the bread roll ingredients with the measuring cups and spoons.
- Then, in a glass mixing bowl, combine the warm milk, yeast, and sugar.
- Using a blending whisk, whisk the ingredients together until well combined and a little bubbly on top of the mixture.
- Then, cover the bowl with plastic wrap, or a disposable shower cap.
- Let the mixture sit for 10-15 minutes.
Bread dough
- Next, prepare a standing mixer with a dough hook attachment.
- Pour the yeast mixture into the bowl of the standing mixer and add in the flour, salt, and melted butter. Mix the dough together on medium-low (2nd speed).
- Continue mixing until a big dough ball has formed.
- Next, spray another large glass bowl with some cooking oil spray.
- Place the dough ball in the greased bowl, and cover with plastic wrap or a disposable shower cap.
- Place the dough bowl on a heat pad, or in the warmest spot of your house. Cover the wrapped bowl with a kitchen towel, and let the dough rise for 1 to 1.5 hour. The dough is ready when it has doubled in size.
- Next, preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Then, use a dredge shaker to lightly flour a flat, even surface and use the chop cutter to cut the dough into 6 equal portions. Form the portions into 6 balls or rolls.For smaller dinner rolls, cut the dough into 12 portions. You may need 2 baking pans for 12 rolls.
- Lightly grease an 8×8 baking dish with cooking spray oil.
- Next, space the dough balls out evenly in the baking dish.
- Wrap the baking dish with plastic wrap or a disposable shower cap. Place the dish on the heat pad, or warmest spot of the house.
- Cover the wrapped dish with a kitchen towel.
- Let the rolls rise for another 30 minutes.
- Finally, bake the dinner rolls in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.
Glaze
- After removing the rolls from the oven, while they’re still hot, use a silicone brush to brush the freshly baked rolls with some milk. Enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
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