Best Dinner Rolls | Homemade Yeast Rolls

Best Dinner Rolls or Homemade yeast rolls for Thanksgiving, Christmas dinner, or Easter brunch.

5 from 51 votes

Best Dinner Rolls | Homemade Yeast Rolls

Classic and Best Dinner Rolls Recipe. These homemade yeast rolls are soft and light, fluffy and buttery, easy to make. You need only six ingredients to make these mini dinner rolls. The best rolls to serve for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, and Easter brunch.

Prep Time15

Cook Time25

Resting Time2

Total Time2 40

Course: Bread, Dinner, Lunch

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegetarian

Servings: Rolls

Calories: 169kcal

Author: Kushi

Equipment

9 * 13 inch baking pan

Ingredients

1 cup Whole Milk
½ cup Butter
1 tablespoon Sugar
2 ¼ teaspoon Active dry yeast
1 teaspoon Salt
3 cups All purpose flour , more if needed
Egg , for brushing (use milk or cream for vegetarian/vegan version)
Coarse Salt , to sprinkle (optional)

Instructions

Activate the yeast

In a pan, combine milk and butter and heat on low flame till the butter melts for about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat.
1 cup Whole Milk, ½ cup Butter
When the mixture is lukewarm, add sugar. Sprinkle yeast.
1 tablespoon Sugar, 2 ¼ teaspoon Active dry yeast
Cover and keep this aside. Let the yeast activate. This may take about 10 to 15 minutes.

Make the dough and knead; let it rise

Now add flour, salt and mix it using wooden spatula.
3 cups All purpose flour, 1 teaspoon Salt
Transfer this to the working surface and knead it until soft and smooth ball of dough is formed.
Transfer the dough to greased bowl. Cover and keep it aside for 1 hour or until doubled in size.

Shape into rolls and let it rise

Transfer the dough onto the working surface and shape it into rectangle.
Divide it into 30 equal portions for mini dinner rolls or 15 big dinner rolls.
Form each piece into a ball, pinching the seam side down to get a smooth round top.
Arrange this in a greased 9-inch by 13-inch baking pan with 5 rows of 6, placing close to each other but not touching.
Cover this and let it rise in warm place for 30 minutes or until doubled.

Bake the best dinner rolls

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
Brush the rolls with egg wash and sprinkle coarse salt.
Egg, Coarse Salt
Bake for about 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown in color.
Brush the warm rolls with melted butter before serving if desired.

Notes

The amount of flour required may vary depending on weather conditions and the brand of flour used.
Dinner rolls are one of the best make-ahead recipes for your Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas dinner, or Easter brunch. Check out the detailed make-ahead, storage, reheat, and freezer instructions on yeast rolls given below in the post.

What to serve with dinner rolls?

Dinner rolls just go well with anything. We love to have it for all three meals with a spread of butter. You can serve it with any pasta, thanksgiving turkey, or Christmas chicken roast to soak up the gravy instead of buttermilk biscuits, with hot chicken wings during your Super Bowl game night.

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