Hey everyone Sam here from Sugar Spun Run and today I'm showing you how to make my favorite soft dinner rolls.
Today I'm sharing a quick and easy dinner roll
recipe. This is my personal favorite because it makes such soft fluffy rolls.
I think you're really going to love this one.
So let's get started. Now the first thing you're going to want to do is pre-heat
your oven to just 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Now let's head over to our stand mixer
where you are going to need three cups of all-purpose flour. I'm just gonna add this into the bowl of our mixer
We're also adding just two tablespoons of
granulated sugar, and two and a half teaspoons of rapid rise yeast. Now one
ingredient I like to add to my bread recipe, that not everybody uses, is a
tablespoon of cornstarch. I have found this really helps make the rolls
extremely soft. I also use this technique, this ingredient, when I'm making my
cinnamon rolls for the same reason. Finally we're just going to add 1 and
1/4 teaspoons of salt and then we're just gonna stir all of our dry
ingredients together until they're nicely combined.
With your dry ingredients all nicely combined. We're going to go ahead and prepare our liquid
ingredients. So you're going to need a small saucepan, and in this saucepan
we're going to combine a 1/2 cup of water, 1/2 cup of whole milk,
And 4 tablespoons of unsalted butter, and as you can see I've gone ahead and cut this
into 4 pieces just going to help everything to melt together a little more easily.
Now let's head over to the stovetop where we're going to heat together our
butter, our milk, and our water until the butter is melted and the mixture is
between 110 and 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Now if this gets too hot, that's fine
just remove it from the stove top and let it cool back down to between 110 and 115 degrees.
So this got a little bit hotter than that 110 to 115 degrees
Fahrenheit range we're aiming for so I've let it cool for a couple minutes,
and now we're back in range. So what you're gonna do is you're going to turn
your mixer speed to low and while that's running you're just gonna gradually pour
this liquid mixture into the dry ingredients.
Once everything's combined there we're going to add our eggs. You'll need one
large egg and one large egg yolk for this recipe, and they should both be at
room temperature before adding them. I'm just gonna use a fork just lightly scramble the eggs.
And we'll just stir these in with the rest of our ingredients.
Now if your ingredients are having a tough time getting nicely incorporated
make sure you pause your mixer and use a spoon or a spatula to scrape the sides
and bottom of the bowl. What you want to do is you want to run your mixer on
medium speed until everything is nicely combined. Now at this point we're not
finished with our dough yet. Obviously it's much too wet, but what I like to do
is if you have it, I recommend swapping your paddle attachment on your mixer out
for a dough hook. This is not mandatory. You can still get great dinner rolls
using a paddle attachment. I just find this works with my dough a little bit better.
So what we're going to do is we're going to be adding more flour.
We're going to need about 1/2 cup more flour, but we're going to add this
sparingly; going to turn your mixer to low speed and gradually add this flour.
So at this point everything is actually looking pretty good. You can see that the
dough is pretty smooth and elastic and it's clinging to itself rather than
clinging to the sides of the bowl. Also, if I touch it my finger, it comes away clean.
There's a little bit of dough on it but it's mostly clean. I really don't think
I'd be adding any more flour at this point. Now for me I usually need to add
that full 1/2 cup of flour. If you do not need to add that much it's fine. If you
have to add another tablespoon or so, that's also fine. When you're making
yeast dough, or rolls, like today's recipe, it's more about the consistency of the
dough than it is about exactly how much flour you add. Now we're going to want to
let this dinner roll dough rise. It's only gonna need about 10 minutes to do so.
What I like to do is transfer it to a lightly oiled heatproof bowl. This is a
pretty large bowl. Cover your dough tightly with plastic wrap, and you're
just going to want to leave it in a warm draft-free place to rise. Now since my
oven is preheating to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, the top of my oven is
actually going to be pretty warm. So that's where I'm going to be leaving
mine. So while your dough is taking that 10 minutes to rise you can go ahead and
prepare a baking dish. We're going to be using a 9 by 13 glass baking dish and
what I like to do is I like to melt a little bit of butter on the bottom of
that. I'm just gonna need one and a half tablespoons of butter. This is unsalted
butter and what I like to do is rather than sticking this in the microwave,
which you can totally do that instead, I'm just going to drop this in my
oven that's preheating for a couple minutes until the butter is melted.
Set your prepared dish aside and at this point your dough should have finished
rising. So you're going to want to grab that. We're just going to transfer it to a lightly floured clean surface.
The easiest way that I found to portion out
the dough into even sized rolls is just to roll it into a log and then cut it into 15 equal sized pieces.
Now take each one of these pieces and we're going to roll it into a nice smooth ball.
Once you have all of your rolls formed we're just
gonna grab them and we're going to place them into our buttered pan.
Now cover your pan very tightly with foil and what we're gonna do is we're gonna head over
to our 200 degrees Fahrenheit preheated oven. We're gonna pop these rolls in the
oven and we're going to turn the oven off. You're going to let them rise in
that oven for 15 minutes with oven off. Once 15 minutes has passed you're gonna
want to grab these rolls out of the oven. Keep them tightly covered. Just set them
aside and you're going to pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. You're
going to let your rolls continue to rise covered until your oven reaches 350
degrees Fahrenheit. Once your oven is preheated we can go ahead and uncover
our rolls. Now that your rolls have risen and your oven is preheated you can
certainly go ahead and toss these in the oven as is, right now, but I like to
encourage a little bit of browning on top of my rolls. So to do this I like to
brush them lightly with just a little bit of milk. And just use a pastry brush
and gently brush that on each roll. Another option for doing this would be
to lightly brush the rolls with egg wash, which is just one egg lightly beaten
with one or two teaspoons of water. That works really well for giving you a shiny
brown topping but it also weighs down the rolls a little bit. So I prefer to
use milk, or to use nothing at all. Alright let's take these over to our 350
degree fahrenheit oven where they're going to need to bake for about 20 minutes.
Alright let's go ahead and dig in so I can show you how soft and fluffy these guys are.
And this is still really really hot it probably could use a couple more seconds
to cool, but I don't care I'm gonna go ahead and show you guys just how amazing this roll looks.
Can you guys see the steam or is that just me? anyway super soft and
Anyway super soft and fluffy dinner rolls ready in under an hour I really think you guys are gonna
love this recipe and if you try it out please let me know what you think. Thank
you so much for watching and I'll see you next time.
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