How to Form Homemade Dinner Rolls

Dinner roll served with butter.

Create homemade dinner rolls with a few simple ingredients. This easy recipe suits people new to using yeast. Dress up the recipe by adding some of your favorite spices. Dill, garlic, and oregano would work well in these rolls. Or roll the dough in sesame seeds or poppy seeds before baking. Make the rolls savory by stirring cheese and/or bacon into the dough.

Things You'll Need

• 1 cup milk, warm
• 3 tbsp. butter, melted
• 1 package active yeast
• 1/4 cup water, warm
• 2 eggs, lightly beaten
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• 4 cups all-purpose flour
• Pinch kosher salt
• Cookie sheet
• Plastic wrap

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, add the packet of yeast to the warm water. Stir in milk, eggs, and sugar. Combine well. Add half of the flour and a pinch of salt and combine. Add in the remaining flour. Combine until the dough takes on a smooth, elastic texture.

2. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, pushing the wrap down so that it touches the surface of the dough. Place the bowl in the refrigerator and wait for the dough to rise to twice its original size. This only takes a couple of hours.

3. Grease, or line with parchment paper, a cookie sheet pan. Remove the risen dough from the refrigerator. Pull off pieces of dough and roll into balls with your hand. Place the balls on the cookie sheet with a two inch gap between them to allow for the expansion of the rolls. Cover the cookie sheet with plastic wrap and set to the side for an hour to allow the dough to rise more.

4. Place the cookie sheet into a preheated oven at 350 degrees. Bake until rolls are brown. Start checking the rolls for doneness at the 10-minute mark and keep an eye that they turn brown but don't burn. Remove the rolls from the oven and serve with butter.

References

• Better Homes and Gardens: Classic Dinner Rolls Recipe
• Big Oven: Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe