Easy White Dinner Rolls
Soft, fluffy, quick and easy these white dinner rolls are delicious as a snack or perfect as a side with dinner. They also make great buns for sandwiches and burgers if you make them a little larger. They make the perfect dinner rolls every time!
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 12 min
- Yield
- 24 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup warm water
- 3/4 tbsp instant yeast
- 2 tbsp white sugar (see recipe notes)
- 2 tbsp olive oil (or any neutral oil)
- 2 tsp salt
- 3.5-4 cup bread flour (see recipe notes)
Instructions
- 1
To a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, mix together warm water, instant yeast, sugar, olive oil, salt and 3 cups of flour. As you add in your final cup of flour, check the dough. If it’s overly sticky, keep adding flour a tablespoon at a time. The dough should be able to roll into a ball in your hand but will feel a little bit tacky.
- 2
Continue mixing the dough (mixer with dough hook or attachment) about 8 minutes. Add more flour as needed, it should feel tacky--not sticky.
- 3
Put a teaspoon of oil in a bowl and place the dough in the bowl. Coat the dough with the small amount of oil (this keeps the dough from sticking to the bowl). Cover the dough with plastic wrap or a kitchen towel. Let rise in a warm place about an hour or until doubled in size.
- 4
Turn risen dough out onto your workspace and portion into 24 pieces. I eyeball the dough and use my dough cutter (or a sharp knife). If you use a kitchen scale each ball should be about 1.4 ounces.
- 5
Shape each piece of dough into a round ball and place on parchment-lined (this keeps the bottoms from burning) baking sheet. Your baking sheet should be able to fit 24 of these rolls.
- 6
Cover the baking sheet with a kitchen towel and let rolls rise until doubled in size.
- 7
Preheat oven to 400ºFahrenheit. Once rolls have doubled in size bake for about 10-12 minutes, rotating the pan halfway through if possible. Once the rolls brown on top, pull them out of the oven and brush melted butter on the tops. For convenience I take a stick of cold butter from my fridge and lightly touch the tops of the hot rolls for the perfect shine.
- 8
Enjoy warm with a little bit of jam or butter. Enjoy!