There’s nothing quite like a basket of warm, homemade dinner rolls fresh from the oven. These rolls are soft, fluffy, and lightly buttery, with a tender texture that makes them perfect alongside just about any dinner. And while homemade bread might sound intimidating, this is a wonderfully approachable recipe for anyone who wants to try making dinner rolls from scratch.
The dough comes together with simple ingredients including warm milk, yeast, butter, eggs, sugar, salt, and all-purpose flour. A stand mixer does much of the kneading work, making this a particularly friendly recipe if you’re new to baking bread. The dough should remain soft and slightly sticky rather than becoming stiff, which helps produce those tender, fluffy homemade dinner rolls.
A stand mixer with a dough hook is the one piece of equipment I’d recommend for this recipe. It makes mixing and kneading the soft dough much easier, especially when you’re making a full batch of 24 rolls. You can certainly make bread by hand, but a dough hook takes much of the work out of the process.
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The dough rises twice before baking. After the first rise, you’ll divide it into 24 pieces and shape them into rolls, then give them another hour to rise before they go into a 375°F oven. After about 12 to 14 minutes, the rolls should be lightly browned and ready for a generous brushing of melted butter.
These soft dinner rolls are perfect for holiday meals, Sunday dinners, or anytime you want freshly baked bread on the table. They’re especially good served warm alongside roasted meats, mashed potatoes, soups, or your favorite comfort-food dinner.
If you’ve always wanted to try making bread from scratch, these homemade dinner rolls are a great place to start. The process is straightforward, the ingredients are familiar, and the reward is a basket of warm, soft rolls that taste so much better than anything from a package.
Serve with a grilled pork chop + baked potato and Quick Southern-Style Baked Beans from Pioneer Woman, Sauteed Spinach & Garlic or Creamed Kale.
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Homemade Dinner Rolls
- Total Time: 3:12
- Yield: 12 1x
Ingredients
- 2 cups warm milk
- 2 tablespoons instant dry yeast
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, softened
- 2 large eggs
- 6 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine warm milk, yeast, sugar, salt, butter, and eggs.
- Add in 5½ cups of flour. Using a dough hook, turn the mixer on to a low speed. Once the flour starts to incorporate into the dough, increase the speed to a medium range. Slowly add the remaining ½ cup of flour until the dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl. The dough mixture should be slightly sticky and soft. Add more or less flour until the dough reaches the desired consistency. The amount of flour you add in bread making is always an approximation and you should go by feel.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly greased mixing bowl. Cover with a towel and let rise 90 minutes.
- Lightly grease a baking sheet. Punch down the dough and form into 24 rolls. Place on the greased baking sheet in six rows of four.
- Cover and let rise 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Bake the rolls for 12 to 14 minutes, until lightly browned.
- Remove rolls from oven and brush with melted butter.
- Serve the rolls warm, or to cool, let rest on the pan for 15 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack. Once cooled completely, store in a plastic bag.
- Prep Time: 3:00
- Cook Time: :12
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baked