Homemade Dinner Rolls
Just in time for the holidays, ya girl decided to try her hand at homemade dinner rolls for the first time ever. Let it be known: I am VERY nervous around dough. I don’t LOVE baking because everything is so damn precise and it stresses me the fuck out, honestly. BUT, I figured dinner rolls would be easy enough. And ya know what? They really are! My two mistakes were a) being a little too shy with the flour and not creating a legit BALL of dough in the Kitchen Aid standing mixer (which if you don’t have one of these, you are doing cooking/baking wrong) and b) not being able to get the sizing of the rolls down pat so they were all the same. Other than that, though, these turned out really wonderfully and delicious.
The entire process takes about 90 minutes all in, but an hour of that is letting the dough rise. So it’s very set and forget for most of the recipe.
The BEST Dinner Rolls by Mom On Timeout
INGREDIENTS
4 -5 cups all purpose flour
2 tbsp rapid rise, instant yeast
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 cups warm milk , 110 degrees
5 tbsp butter, softened
1 egg , room temperature
2 tbsp melted butter
DIRECTIONS
Combine 3 cups of flour, yeast, sugar, salt, warm milk, butter, and egg in the bowl of a stand mixer.
Attach the dough hook and turn the mixer on to the lowest speed and mix until flour is incorporated, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary.
Increase speed to medium and beat for 2 minutes.
Add 1/2 cup flour and blend with the dough hook until incorporated. And another 1/2 cup flour and repeat, mixing at medium speed for another 2 minutes until a ball of dough is formed.
Add additional flour as necessary. The dough should be slightly sticky and soft and pulling away from the edge of the bowl.
Transfer the dough to a lightly greased bowl and cover with a towel or plastic wrap. Let rise for 30 minutes at room temperature.
Remove the towel or plastic wrap and deflate the dough by punching down lightly.
Pinch off pieces of the dough and form 24 rolls. You can weigh them to keep the rolls close to the same size. Mine were about 2 ounces each but this will vary depending on how much flour you added.
Transfer the rolls to a lightly greased quarter baking sheet or 9 x 13 baking dish. Cover with a towel or plastic wrap and let rise for an additional 30 minutes at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake the rolls for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. If the rolls are getting too brown, just tent the rolls with foil.
Remove rolls and brush hot rolls with the melted butter. Serve immediately or store cooled rolls in a plastic bag for up to 3 days.
