If you are looking for an easy recipe for some homemade dinner rolls to serve at your next meal, then this Easy Dinner Rolls recipe is the answer. Baked to golden brown perfection, these rolls are a perfect addition to your table for any special occasion or as a part of weeknight dinner.
❤️ Why you'll love it
Easy homemade rolls: these soft dinner rolls are a great recipe for a someone making bread for the first time and don't require a lot of bread-baking skills.
Simple ingredients: you need just the basic ingredients to make these buttery dinner rolls!
Quick bread solution: this easy recipe is ready fairly quickly and delicious warm out of the oven!
🥘 Ingredients
Granulated sugar: sugar helps the yeast grow and aids in the rising of the dough. You can substitute honey or maple syrup if desired.
Active dry yeast: can use instant yeast, rise time may be a little quicker.
Warm water: can use warmed whole milk for a richer roll.
Unsalted butter, melted
All purpose flour: bread flour can be used, however due to its higher protein content you may need to adjust the liquid or use less flour.
Salt
Cooking spray
🔪 How to Make Easy Dinner Rolls
- In a small bowl, dissolve sugar in warm water. Sprinkle with yeast and stir to combine. Let stand 3 minutes. Stir in melted butter.
- In a large bowl, combine 1-½ cups of flour and salt using a hand whisk.
- Add yeast mixture to flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until a soft dough forms. Turn roll dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (about 4 minutes).
- Knead in remaining flour as needed, 1 tablespoon at a time, kneading into a smooth ball and dough is no longer sticky.
- Coat a large bowl with cooking spray or olive oil. Place dough in bowl and turn to coat. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in warm place for 1 hour for the first rise, until dough has doubled in size.
- Deflate dough, then cover with towel and let rest 5 minutes.
- Remove dough from Divide dough into 12 equal pieces, shaping into dough balls. Place 1 dough ball in each of 12 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Cover and let rise 20 minutes or until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 13 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and serve warm.
🥄 Equipment
Large mixing bowl
Small bowl
Wooden spoon
12 cup muffin pan
Wire rack
🥫Storage
Room temperature: store dinner rolls in an airtight container up to 4 days.
Freezer: store in an airtight freezer bag up to 3 months.
Reheat: warm dinner rolls in an air fryer or oven at 350 degrees until warmed through.
📖 Variations
Herb rolls: Knead some of your favorite fresh herbs into the roll dough to infuse some aromatic flavors into the bread dough.
💭 Tips
- For a richer dinner roll, use warm milk in place of warm water.
- Use a square baking pan instead of a muffin pan.
- Use a food scale for a precise sizing of each dinner roll.
📚 Related Recipes
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Butternut Squash Rolls are another beautiful, soft, and fluffy dinner roll recipe!
Looking for a dinner roll similar to the flavor of Hawaiian Sweet Rolls? Then you must try this Homemade Sweet Dinner Roll recipe!
🍽 Serve with..
Serve this easy dinner roll recipe warm with butter. These rolls are great for every day or any holiday meal.
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📖 Recipe
Easy Dinner Rolls: The Best Beginner Roll Recipe
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Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2½ teaspoons active dry yeast
- ⅔ cup warm water (100 – 110 degrees)
- 3 tablespoons butter , melted
- 1¾ cups all purpose flour divided
- ½ teaspoon salt
- cooking spray
Instructions
- In a small bowl, dissolve sugar in warm water. Sprinkle with yeast and stir to combine. Let stand 3 minutes. Stir in melted butter.
- In a large bowl, combine 1-½ cups of flour and salt using a hand whisk.
- Add yeast mixture to flour mixture and stir with a wooden spoon until a soft dough forms. Turn roll dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic (about 4 minutes).
- Knead in remaining flour as needed, 1 tablespoon at a time, kneading into a smooth ball and dough is no longer sticky.
- Coat a large bowl with cooking spray or olive oil. Place dough in bowl and turn to coat. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let dough rise in warm place for 1 hour for the first rise, until dough has doubled in size.
- Deflate dough, then cover with towel and let rest 5 minutes.
- Remove dough from Divide dough into 12 equal pieces, shaping into dough balls. Place 1 dough ball in each of 12 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Cover and let rise 20 minutes or until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 13 minutes, until golden brown. Remove from oven and cool on wire rack for 10 minutes. Remove from pan and serve warm.
Bobby
these dinner rolls look amazing. I have never tried to make them myself but I wouldn't mind trying it sometime.
Katy
i need a recipe just like this -- those rolls look amazing!
Robin Sue
I had stopped taking Cooking Light as I had too many recipes but now I am rethinking this as you have highlighted some great recipes from them. It looks like you had a lovely Thanksgiving and I still am keeping your MIL I my thoughts. Hope all is well.
Pam
I just made my first batch of rolls (my mom's recipe). Your recipe looks wonderful and the rolls turned out perfectly.
creative one
The dinner rolls look awesome! This is another recipe I will be trying.
Foong
I really must learn to make rolls and bread...
Medena
I can never have enough of these recipes. Great rolls!
Mari at Once Upon a Plate
Perfection!
I wish I could have one right now.
Great job Honey! ~m.
noble pig
These are beautiful, I love how puffy they look...just gorgeous. And some cranberry in the sandwich too.
hanne
These look great, and you're right-- there's something wonderful about turkey on a roll in the days after Thanksgiving.
Shari@Whisk: a food blog
I love homemade rolls!
Laura
These look great. Rolls are the most important part of Thanksiving to me (perhaps because I don't like turkey). 🙂
Clumbsy Cookie
There are very few things better than homemade rolls! And yours look wonderful!
Jude
Nice recipe! Always great to have freshly baked dinner rolls at the dining table.
Di
Those look delicious! You can never have too many good roll recipes. =) The one I've been making lately is the Rustic Rolls from the most recent Cooks Illustrated. I've made them three times already, and still haven't managed to get them up on my blog.
Megan
I've been on a dinner roll roll. Ha, that was funny. Anyway, my last batch was terrible and ended up in the garbage. 🙁 I'll try your recipe.
BTW- The potatos were a big, I mean really big hit at our Thanksgiving table! 🙂
Jo
Ohhh these look excellent Honey B! Yummy!
Bellini Valli
These trigger so many memories of all the delicious rolls my dad used to bake. I can still smell the warmth they left all over our home:D By the way, how is your MIL?
Christy
These look great and I've been looking for a simple roll recipe. Thanks for the post!! I may have to make these today to make turkey sandwiches. 🙂
Cristine
YUM! I love rolls and I love using them with my turkey leftovers!