Easy White Dinner Rolls
Soft, fluffy, quick and easy these white dinner rolls are delicious as a snack or perfect as a side with dinner. They also make great buns for sandwiches and burgers if you make them a little larger. They make the perfect dinner rolls every time!
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups warm water
- ¾ Tablespoon instant yeast
- 2 Tablespoons white sugar see recipe notes
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil or any neutral oil
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 3.5-4 cups bread flour see recipe notes
Instructions
- To a bowl fitted with a dough hook, mix together warm water, instant yeast, sugar, olive oil, salt and 3 cups of flour. As you add in your final cup of flour, check the dough. If it’s overly sticky, keep adding flour a tablespoon at a time. The dough should be able to roll into a ball in your hand but should still be a little sticky.
- Continue mixing the dough (mixer with dough hook or attachment) about 8 minutes. Add more flour as needed, it should feel tacky--not sticky.
- Put a teaspoon of oil in a bowl and place the dough in the bowl. Coat the dough with the small amount of oil (this keeps the dough from sticking to the bowl). Cover the dough with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel. Let rise in a warm place about an hour or until doubled in size.
- Turn risen dough out onto your workspace and portion into 24 pieces. I eyeball the dough and use my dough cutter (or a sharp knife). If you use a kitchen scale each ball should be about 1.4 ounces.
- Shape each piece of dough into a round ball and place on parchment-lined (this keeps the bottoms from burning) baking sheet. Your baking sheet should be able to fit 24 of these rolls. Check out my Instagram tutorial "Easiest Rolls" for shaping help.
- Cover the baking sheet with a kitchen towel and let rolls rise until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Once rolls have doubled in size bake for about 10-12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through if possible. Once the rolls brown on top, pull them out of the oven and brush melted butter on the tops. For convenience I take a stick of cold butter from my fridge and lightly touch the tops of the hot rolls for the perfect shine.
- Enjoy warm with a little bit of jam or butter. Enjoy!
Notes
Sugar: You can substitute honey or a different sweetener if desired.
Bread Flour: If you don’t have bread flour, you can add 1 Tablespoon vital wheat gluten to the all purpose flour. I have also had success making them with whole wheat flour. They won't be quite as fluffy. A combination of half whole wheat flour and half white bread flour will yield best results.
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