It’s easy to make delicious, fluffy, soft dinner rolls at home for a perfect side dish to any meal. In about an hour, they are warm and ready.
Jump to RecipeHaving a delicious side dish can make or break a dinner. I love bread, any type of bread, so it was finally time to make my own dinner rolls. These came out so fluffy and soft. They reminded us of the rolls that are thrown to you at a restaurant called Lamberts in Missouri.
I also love that these can be made pretty quickly. We had them done in just over an hour, but only half of that is hands-on time. When they came out of the oven I immediately brushed the rolls with a bit of butter. Justin and Tyler liked them with honey on the rolls. We also had a few leftover dinner rolls that I saved for breakfast in the morning. I added some jelly to them and it made a great morning meal.
Dinner Rolls Step by Step
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup milk
- 4 tbsp butter
- 3/4 cup hot water, at least 100F
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
Preparation
Put milk and butter in a microwaveable dish and microwave for 1 minute, until the butter has melted.
Preheat oven to 170F.
Add dough hook to stand mixer and combine milk/butter, water, sugar, salt, and 1 cup flour and mix on setting 2 for one minute.
Add yeast and mix in for 30 seconds.
Add the rest of the flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until dough scrapes bowl clean.
Mix on medium, setting 4, for 5 minutes.
Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 5 minutes.
Grease 9×13 pan with butter.
Cut dough into 12 chunks, forming into dough balls.
Place dough balls in the greased pan.
Bake for 20 minutes or until they have risen about 1 inch.
Increase oven temp to 350F and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove from the oven.
Brush with softened butter (optional).
Dinner Rolls Leftovers
If you have any leftover dinner rolls, they can be stored in a sealed container at room temperature. The rolls make a great breakfast in the morning with some honey or jelly. You can eat them at room temperature or warm them slightly in a hot oven until just warmed through. You don’t want to cook too long or they will start to get crispy.
Recipe
Originally Published On: April 18, 2022
Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup milk
- 4 tbsp butter
- 3/4 cup hot water (at least 100F)
- 4 tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 cups flour
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
Recommended Equipment
Instructions
- Put milk and butter in a microwaveable dish and microwave for 1 minute, until the butter has melted
- Preheat oven to 170F
- Add dough hook to stand mixer and combine milk/butter, water, sugar, salt, and 1 cup flour and mix on setting 2 for one minute
- Add yeast and mix in for 30 seconds
- Add the rest of the flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until dough scrapes bowl clean
- Mix on medium, setting 4, for 5 minutes
- Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for 5 minutes
- Grease 9×13 pan with butter
- Cut dough into 12 chunks, forming into dough balls
- Place dough balls in the greased pan
- Bake for 20 minutes or until they have risen about 1 inch
- Increase oven temp to 350F and bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown
- Remove from the oven
- Brush with softened butter (optional)
All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutrition content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
Dinner rolls are such a staple at any event. Thank you for this delicious at-home recipe.
My kids are all about the dinner rolls! This sounds delicious. I haven’t made fresh dinner rolls and I’m sure it would be a nice change from the store-bought ones.
Yummo! These are the kinds of rolls I have to be careful with. I’ll end up eating so many, I don’t have room for anything else.
Really lovely, but I imagined as much as they are good. This is a type of bread that I love to eat!
Those look like the most perfect and delicious dinner rolls. I am a bread lover so I will have to try. I usually just purchase frozen rolls and make them that way but I will be trying this instead.
Incredible rolls! I love them hot, right out of the oven!
Yum! I love all things bread! I enjoy a warm dinner roll with butter. I can’t wait to make these. Thank you!
It does look very fluffy indeed. My hubby likes to eat bread rolls in the morning, so I might make this for him.
How are you so good at these? A good dinner roll always makes me happy.
I love my dinner rolls paired with a steaming hot broth. This is so soft and fluffy, which i love as well.
You are such an amazing baker. Your dinner rolls look ditto to the ones you get in the market. Will try them out.
These rolls are actually easy when I tried making them. I enjoyed making them and the kids love it too. It is a must-try again recipe
looks like a pretty easy recipe to get right.. thanks for sharing!
I can eat this everyday! thanks for the recipe. To be honest, to me – this dinner roll goes well with everything plus, its easy to make! I am printng this
Good thing I saw this recipe. I am planning of baking some bread and now I have an idea what to do. Thank you for the recipe! Hopefully, I can successfully make this.
Oh I love me some dinner rolls! I have never tried to make them though!
I usually only make bread in the bread maker, but I think I can handle this one! They look so tasty and fluffy. Yum!!
I know that a lot of people avoid foods like these because of the carbs, but I love dinner rolls! They make any meal more memorable.
These look amazing and so, so fluffy! I love rolls like this. I can’t stand them when they’re too hard and flaky.
These look so good and would love to try them. First time to know about them. Thank for sharing this lovely recipe!
Wow! These fluffy rolls look absolutely delicious and yummy! Perfect for an afternoon snack. The best part is it’s easy to prepare and bake!
The rolls looks so fluffy that anyone can gobble up within few seconds. Easy recipes with few common ingredients really attract me to try. And this is one of them. Thanks for sharing.
I’ve been wanting to try my hand at making my own dinner rolls. I’m not the best at making bread but I’m sure that I can follow these instructions easily. They look so good!!!!!!!!!
I would love to try to make rolls from scratch! I think my kids would be so excited!
When the rolls are the best, the dinner is an experience for my teen. He has always thought the bread makes the meal, lol. He’s the biggest bread lover I know. These sound fluffy, good, delicious.
Mmm…a good dinner roll is so delicious! I do love one with my supper too.
Your Dinner Roll recipe is so delicious! My family loved it and wanted more than I have baked. Thanks for the share!
I have never tried making fluffy dinner rolls at home. I will definitely give it a go.