The best Homemade Dinner Rolls recipe! These easy, soft & fluffy dinner rolls are, slightly sweet and salty, irresistibly buttery & moist and made from scratch. They turn out perfectly every single time and are a must-make holiday side dish.
Line a 9x13” baking pan with parchment paper, set aside.
Proof the Yeast
Add sugar, water and yeast to the bowl of your standing mixer fitted with the dough hook. Let the mixture sit for 5-10 minutes until foamy.
Make the Dough
Once yeast is foamy, and the butter, milk and egg and stir to combine.
Add 3 cups of flour and ½ tablespoon salt and knead with dough hook. Add more flour gradually, as needed until a slightly-tacky ball forms.
Grease a large bowl and transfer the dough to the bowl. Cover with a damp cloth and set in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
Once dough has doubled, flour your hands and squeeze it to remove the gas.
With floured hands, form 12, equally-sized dough balls. (use a food scale to weight full batch of dough, then divide that number by 12 and make sure every dough ball is the same weight).
Roll them until they’re smooth balls.
Place the dough balls into the prepared baking sheet evenly spaced into 4 rows of 3.
Cover with a damp towel and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size (about 30-60 minutes) - do not let the towel touch the top of the rolls.
Bake
When the rolls have risen about halfway, preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
Bake the risen rolls in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, until the rolls are golden-brown on the top and sound hollow when tapped with a wooden spoon, or reach an internal temperature of 185-190 degrees F when measured with an instant read thermometer.
Remove the dinner rolls from the oven and immediately brush them with melted butter and sprinkle with sea salt.
Let cool slightly, then serve warm.
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Notes
Ingredient Substituions
Whole Milk. I suggest whole, 2% or half and half for the best rolls.
All-purpose flour. I don't recommend substitutions. Try these whole wheat dinner rolls if you'd like to use whole wheat flour..
Granulated sugar. white or organic cane sugar are the best choices. You could replace the sugar with honey, if desired.
Salted Butter. unsalted butter is a great choice.
Make Ahead & FreezePortion out the dough, roll it into balls and place them in the baking pan. Then, cover the pan tightly with plastic wrap and aluminum foil or a lid (before the second rise). Freeze for up to 1 month before bakingTo bake the rolls after freezing: remove the baking pan from the freezer and let the rolls come to room temperature and rise fully before baking according to the recipe instructions,.Or you can bake the dinner rolls from frozen by baking at 325 degrees F for 25 minutes, then increasing the baking temperature to 375 and baking for 10 additional minutes (so a total of 35 minutes baking).StoreStore leftover rolls in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Or, you can freeze baked rolls in an airtight container or ziplock bag for up to 2 months.