1 Hour Dinner Rolls

These soft and fluffy yeast rolls are quick and easy to make.
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Recipe for 1 Hour Dinner Rolls

These 1 Hour Dinner Rolls are your answer to fresh, homemade bread on even the busiest weeknights. Also called yeast rolls, these only require a quick rise. These yeast rolls are pillowy soft, slightly sweet, and irresistibly buttery. Perfect as a side for ham, roasts, or holiday meals, these rolls will quickly become a family favorite.

Breads

Side Dish

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Cook Time
1h

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Servings
9

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Difficulty
Moderate

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Ingredients

  • 3 1/2 cups flour
  • 1 Tbsp Sugar or honey
  • 1 package instant yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 3/4 cup warm water
  • 4 Tbsp melted butter
  • 1 egg for eggwash

Instructions

  1. Mix together warm milk, instant yeast, and sugar/honey. Set aside. 
  2. In a large mixer bowl add flour and salt.
  3. After 5 minutes your yeast should have produced some foam on top.
  4. Use a mixer with a dough hook slowly add milk yeast mixture to flour and the water.
  5. Add in melted butter.
  6. Continue mixing for 3-5 minutes until dough has climbed up the dough hook.
  7. Remove dough off hook, cover bowl with towel and set aside to proof for 15 minutes.
  8. As your dough proofs preheat an oven to 180 degrees and then turn it off when it reaches that temperature.
  9. Divide dough into equal sizes, form in to ball shape and set in pan touching.
  10. Place pan in oven to rise for 20 minutes.
  11. Brush with eggwash while you preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  12. Bake rolls for 20 minutes or until golden brown.
  13. Take out of oven and cover with aluminum foil and let sit for 15 minutes to soften even more and cool.

Cooking Tips

You can also use 2 1/2 cups white flour and 1 cup whole wheat for a healthier option.

To not kill the yeast make sure your milk is no hotter than very warm bath water and never add salt with the yeast.

If your yeast doesn't produce foam on top (bubbling) then your yeast is dead.

Letting your breads cool after baking for at least 15 minutes helps the crumb set and lets steam escape.