Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls are precisely what the name suggests. These are simple and unpretentious dinner rolls. But, oh my goodness. I promise you’ll find they oh-so-satisfying to your taste buds.
Using quick-rise yeast, you can have these homemade dinner rolls hot and on your table in around an hour.
You don’t need a bread machine. However, you can run this on the “mix only cycle” if you do have one. I use my KitchenAid Stand Mixer with the dough hooks. Personally, I have never tried to hand-mix this recipe. But if you want to try hand kneading, please do share the results on the DIY Home & Garden Facebook Page. I’d love to know how it worked.
It’s spring. My garden has just started to produce kale again, my earliest crop of the season. So I am longing to cook my garden-fresh recipes, but it’s still a touch early. Enter bread baking! It gets me in the kitchen, making something yummy and being productive. And, quite frankly, it’s fun to make homemade dinner rolls.
I adapted this recipe from a one hour bread recipe I found on Pinterest and adapted it until it worked for dinner rolls. The first couple of times, I had epic failures. With most of my recipes, you can wing the measurements. With this one, however (and anytime you bake goodies), please measure carefully!
These are great to serve alongside a meal in place of bread. I make them on the smaller side, like a slider roll, and serve them as tiny, cute sandwiches quite frequently. They pair great with my Sloppy Doe recipe. In fact, I didn’t intend to post this recipe, but within 5 minutes of posting my Sloppy Doe recipe, I received an email requesting this info.
Update: 03.23.2020
In the midst of the grocery shortages resulting from the recent Covid-19 or coronavirus (whichever you call it), it’s more important than EVER BEFORE to have an easy, quick rise bread recipe. I found it impossible to find bread, despite hitting up several local stores.
Therefore, I picked up flour and yeast and returned to my old habit of making homemade bread. I do apologize if I include shopping links to products that are sold out on Amazon. I checked stock before publishing this update. However, I see several “low inventory” flags.
I had not precisely stopped baking due to the convenience of purchasing bread. Instead, my shift occurred when I got serious about WW and lost 75 lbs. Let’s just say that this is NOT low points bread. However, I have not taken the time to do an exact point calculation. I plan to update this blog post again once I’ve calculated this data.
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EASY HOMEMADE DINNER ROLLS:
- 5 cups white bread flour
- 1 packet of Rapid Rise yeast. Some brands also call this fast rise or quick rise.
- 4 tbl sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Olive oil, about 1 1/4 tbl
- 1 3/4 cup warm water (about 110 degrees)
Directions:
- Place the packet of yeast, the sugar, and warm water in the bowl of your stand mixer. While it proofs, place the dough hooks in your stand mixer. Also, take a minute to spray a silicon mat and two baking pans or cookie sheets with non-stick cooking spray.
- After the yeast begins to proof (bubble), add the salt and olive oil.
- Start your stand mixer slowly, and begin to add your bread flour a little at a time. I go about 1 cup at a time.
- Turn up to medium speed, and let it mix for about four minutes. You should not have any dry bits in it. The texture should NOT be a dry feeling, it should be slightly sticky. If it’s not a little sticky, start your mixer and add water a tablespoon or two at a time until it is. This may vary depending on your altitude.
- After mixing, turn the bread onto the silicone mat, which I sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Hand-knead about six to eight turns.
- Divide dough into 24 equally sized balls. Shape them into little rolls and place them onto the prepared baking pans.
- Cover loosely with plastic wrap for thirty minutes in a draft-free place. They will rise and double in size. The sides will probably touch, but that’s just fine. They will pull apart after baking.
- Fire up the oven – 350, please.
- After 30 minutes of rising, bake the rolls for 20-25 minutes. They should be golden brown on top and bottom.
PRINTABLE RECIPE:
Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
Method
- 1. Place the packet of yeast, the sugar, and warm water in the bowl of your stand mixer. While it proofs, place the dough hooks in your stand mixer. Also, take a minute to spray a silicon mat and two baking pans or cookie sheets with non-stick cooking spray.
- 2. After the yeast begins to proof (bubble), add the salt and olive oil.
- 3. Start your stand mixer slowly, and begin to add your bread flour a little at a time. I go about 1 cup at a time.
- 4. Turn up to medium speed, and let it mix for about four minutes. You should not have any dry bits in it. The texture should NOT be dry feeling, it should be slightly sticky. If it's not a little sticky, start your mixer and add water 1-2 tbl at a time until it is. This may vary depending on your altitude.
- 5. After mixing, turn the bread onto the silicone mat, which sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Hand-knead about 6 to 8 turns.
- 6. Divide dough into 24 equally sized balls. Shape them into little rolls and place them onto the prepared baking pans.
- 7. Cover loosely with plastic wrap for 30 minutes in a draft-free place. They will rise and double in size. The sides will probably touch, but that's just fine. They will pull apart after baking.
- 8. Fire up the oven - 350, please.
- 9. After 30 minutes of rising, bake the rolls for 20-25 minutes. They should be golden brown on top and bottom.
Notes
I’d love to hear on Facebook how much you enjoyed making–and eating–your homemade dinner rolls. Bon Appetit!
