Easy dinner rolls
Learn how to make these light and buttery dinner rolls in about an hour.
Prep Time: 50 minutes
Cook time: 13-15 minutes
Yield: 24 rolls
Recipe source:Inquiring Chef,you can find the original recipe here.
Ingredients:
- Luke warm water- 1 and 1/2 cups
- Instant yeast-1 tbsp
- Granulated sugar-2 tbsp
- Unsalted butter,softened-2 tbsp
- All purpose flour,lightly spooned into measuring cup and leveled off-4 cups
- Salt-to taste
For topping
- Butter,melted- 2 to 3 tbsp
- Salt- to taste
Instructions:
Add butter,salt and 2 cups flour, mix until combined.
Add remaining flour and mix well.Knead to form a soft dough for about 10 minutes.( you can use a stand mixer ,if desired)
Cover the dough using a kitchen towel.Let the dough rise in a warm place until doubled in volume ,for about 20 minutes.
Punch down the dough and turn it on to a lightly floured surface.
Cover using a kitchen towel and let them rise in a warm place until doubled,for about 20 minutes.
Preheat oven to 180 Deg C.
Notes:
- I halved the recipe,and used 1.5 tbsp of sugar and it tasted perfect.Adjust the quantity of sugar according to your taste.
17 Comments
Sumee
November 11, 2013 at 4:40 pmNice recipe.. Loved all teh clicks
Swati
May 23, 2014 at 12:58 pmWow, these look amazing. Your step by step pics do give me encouragement: perhaps I too can venture into 'bread' making!
Wendy
August 19, 2014 at 6:43 pmIt is a good thing I referred back to the original recipe before making these. Your instructions made no reference to the measuring of flour, which is pretty important in this recipe. The original recipe says to "lightly spoon" flour into cup and level off. That is a pretty big difference from how you normally measure flour– which is scoop the measuring cup into flour and level off. That would give the recipe too much flour and the ratio would be off. Not everyone is a skilled enough baker to even the ratio back out.
Kurryleaves
August 20, 2014 at 8:10 amThank you for pointing out the mistake….
yes!! as you mentioned ..measuring the flour accurately is very important in this recipe,in order to obtain the perfect results.Too much flour can make the end product tough and dry.
I have updated the recipe..Thank You once again….and im sorry:) okie!!!
Happy Baking
Regards
Vidya
Unknown
March 17, 2015 at 1:23 amHi Wendy!
Well, as a pro at baking(and I tell people I am modest!) ok, well as someone with quite an experience with baking, I must tell you that for any, I repeat ANY recipe that uses flour, you always, I repeat ALWAYS have to spoon flour and never scoop it with a cup. This is very essential measuring 101 that very few sites mention. But the sites that do mention it, they make sure they emphasize it, like sallysbakingaddiction.com and Martha Stewart never forget to rub that spooning bit in.
So NEVER scoop your flour unless the recipe asks for it.
Happy baking!
Unknown
March 17, 2015 at 1:26 amHi Vidya! I have a question, for this recipe, what size cup did you use? Standard American(240 ml)? Or Indian(200ml)?
Thanks
Kurryleaves
March 30, 2015 at 6:19 pmHi Meera! i use 250 ml (metric) cup.
Thanks a lot for your detailed comment,im sure ..this will help the readers as well.Thank You!!
Regards
Vidya
Unknown
November 22, 2015 at 6:21 pmIs it possible to use active dry yeast instead of instant? If so, are the amounts used still the same? I do not and never have used instant yeast. Thank you very much!
Kurryleaves
November 23, 2015 at 4:44 pmyou may use 1 and 1/2 tbsp of active dry yeast
Unknown
November 26, 2015 at 3:56 ammine turned out like biscuits 🙁
Unknown
February 15, 2016 at 12:59 amToo much flour love. Try to use a spoon to fill your cup of flour next time and level it off with a butter knife. Should work out better if you do such, or only do about 3 cups of flour and use only as much as you need to kneed the dough in the last 4th cup of flour that's what I did. Best of luck 🙂
Unknown
November 26, 2015 at 3:57 amMine turned out like biscuits 🙁
Unknown
November 24, 2016 at 6:40 amIm not sure if my last comment posted but what if I only have salted butter?
Unknown
December 26, 2016 at 7:03 amAmazing!!!! Thanks so much from Canada. All the advices in the comments helped me too I made the perfect dinner rolls!
Unknown
April 11, 2017 at 12:24 amcan these be made ahead and frozen until ready to use?
Kurryleaves
April 27, 2017 at 6:04 pmyes you can…..make sure you bring it to room temperature before baking.
Unknown
January 16, 2019 at 5:25 pmThis is my favorite bread roll recipe! It's the only one I use. Spooning in the flour into cup is definitely the best way. Dough comes out soft and beautiful to work with although if u allow to rise a little longer it's even more lighter. Thanks for an awesome recipe. Trisha