Homemade Dinner Rolls
Homemade Dinner Rolls are fluffy and so delicious! These classic dinner rolls will be your Holiday roll go-to, or an easy every day bread roll.
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Servings: 15
Calories: 166kcal
Equipment
- Mixing Bowls
- Wooden Spoon
- 13"x9" Glass/Ceramic Baking Dish
- Stand Mixer (optional)
Ingredients
- ½ cup Whole Milk
- ½ cup Sugar
- 1 ¼ teaspoons Salt
- ¼ cup Melted Butter, (Plus additional for coating bowls & brushing tops of the freshly baked rolls)
- ½ cup Warm Water (100° F - 110° F)
- 2 packages Active Dry Yeast*
- 2 Large Eggs, beaten
- 4 ½ cups All-Purpose Flour (possibly a little more or less, see directions)
Instructions
Make the Dough
- In a medium saucepan, scald milk (bring almost to a boil and remove from heat immediately). Stir in sugar, salt, and butter. Set aside and allow mixture to cool to lukewarm (100° F - 110° F).
- In a large mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, mix together warm water (100° F - 110° F) and yeast. Stir until dissolved. Let sit about 5-10 minutes.
- Stir in the lukewarm milk mixture, beaten eggs, and half of the flour. Mix until smooth.
- Add the remaining flour gradually, mixing as you go. You may need slightly more or less than 4 ½ cups called for in the recipe, depending on the humidity, etc. Your dough should be elastic and slightly stiff, but not dry.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead the dough until smooth and very elastic (or use the dough hook or paddle attachment on your stand mixer). This usually takes 7-10 minutes by hand.
- Butter the inside of a large mixing bowl. Put the dough in bowl and turn dough over a few of times to coat all sides with the butter.
- Cover the bowl with a kitchen tea towel and place in a warm place to rise. It will take about 1 hour to double in size. Then punch the dough down and turn out onto a lightly floured surface.
Make the Dinner Rolls
- Pinch off 2-3 tablespoons of dough and shape into a ball and place each dough ball into a buttered baking pan, barely touching each other, do not crowd them. Repeat until all of the dough is used (you should get about 15 rolls).
- Cover the dough balls with a kitchen tea towel or plastic wrap and place in a warm area until they rise and are doubled in size, about 1 hour. The dough balls will touch each other.
- After the dough balls have been rising for 45 minutes. Preheat oven to 375° F.
- Bake rolls for 20-25 minutes, until browned on top and smell fragrant of yeast!
- Brush the tops of the rolls with melted butter immediately after removing from the oven.
- Allow the rolls to sit for about 5 minutes before serving.
Notes
*To use instant yeast in place of active dry, skip the step of dissolving the yeast in water and add it directly to your dry ingredients. Add the water that was meant for activating to the milk mixture, so you are retaining the same total amount of liquid.
Nutrition
Calories: 166kcal