Are you like me? When the rolls come around do you take more than one or two or three??? That soft pillowy dough is heavenly. It’s a carb lovers dream! I could eat that soft dough for breakfast, and lunch, and dinner…and snacks and…just about any old time!!!
I stumbled on this recipe while on Pinterest at kleinworthco.com. The recipe looked pretty easy and straightforward enough, so I decided to give them a try. For years I never attempted recipes that called for yeast. It was just too intimidating, all the proofing and punching of dough. What the heck was that all about? It all sounded a bit violent and much too complicated and for me to be able to do.
Over the last several months I have gotten pretty comfortable baking bread on a regular basis. Through trial and error I have become more familiar with how yeast and dough behaves. You just have to get in there and try it. You will start to get a feel for the dough once you start working with it.
If you want to get your feet wet with baking bread I recommend this recipe below for how to bake bread. It’s virtually fool proof and will get you used to working with yeast and bread dough. I am legend among my family and friends for baking beautiful loaves of bread using this basic recipe and technique.
This dinner roll recipe is perfect if you are a beginner bread baker but looking for a soft roll instead of a loaf with a great chewy crust. It’s a very straight forward recipe and almost fool proof. They have a consistency very similar to the breadsticks at Olive Garden, only, in my humble opinion, a thousand times better. I kid you not! Do you like King’s Hawaiian rolls? Then you will adore these! These are actually so much better!!!
If you follow the directions below, I promise you will end up with the softest, pillowy rolls you have ever eaten. Slather on some butter and you will think you have died and gone to bread heaven!
By bread baking standards, this is a quick bread to make. It took me just under 3 hours from getting the ingredients together to pulling the baked rolls out of the oven. I recommend letting them cool for about 20-30 minutes before devouring them.
I know that 3 hours sounds like a long time but there is actually very little “hands on” time. Mixing the dough is super easy. The stand mixer does all the hard work for you. The only other “work” is rolling the dough into balls. Most of the time is spent letting the dough rest and letting it do its thing.
Lets get going with making these rolls already! Gather together the ingredients to make the dough.
Stir together 2 tablespoons sugar with 1 tablespoon yeast in 3/4 cup warm water. Make sure it’s not too hot or you risk killing the yeast. Allow this to sit for about 5 minutes until it’s frothy and bubbly.
Add this to 3 cups flour and 3/4 teaspoon salt in the bowl of your stand mixer. Use the dough hook attachment and begin mixing the yeast/sugar/water with the flour and salt.
Add flour a little at a time while mixing the dough. Add up to 1 cup of flour if needed. Continue kneading for about 3-5 minutes or until dough forms a ball and comes away from the sides of the bowl.
Be careful not to add too much flour, you want the dough to form a ball but you also want a rather sticky dough.
Once you have a smooth but sticky dough, remove the dough hook and cover bowl with plastic wrap. Allow the dough to rest for 20 minutes in a warm spot. Dough will double in size.
Preheat oven to 400° F. Spray a 13X9 inch pan with non-stick cooking spray.
Remove plastic wrap and remove the dough from the mixing bowl, gently pulling it away from the sides of the bowl and onto a very lightly floured surface.
Using a dough scraper or sharp knife, divide the dough into 20 equal sized pieces. Shape each piece of dough into a ball and place in the prepared baking dish.
Brush rolls with melted butter.
Add a generous sprinkle of course salt to the top of each roll.
Allow dough to rest for another 20 minutes while oven is preheating.
Bake rolls for 13-15 minutes until a light golden brown. Turn on broiler and brown the tops for 1-2 minutes.
Keep a close eye on them so that they don’t burn. They go from golden brown to burnt in 10 seconds flat, so don’t walk away from the oven for this last step.
Remove rolls from the oven and brush the tops with more melted butter and sprinkle with additional coarse salt.
Allow rolls to cool down before snarfing them all up!!! Yah, good luck with that!
These rolls are the soft as air pillows of carb that you know you are craving! They are as close to heaven as you will ever get while here on earth!
An insanely easy recipe that produces insanely delicious rolls. Trust me, you must give these a try. Start about 3 hours prior to when you want to serve them so they will be nice and warm and will melt the butter you slather on them. Irresistible! I bet you can’t eat just one!!!
Quick & Easy Dinner Rolls
Equipment
- Stand mixer with dough hook.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups warm water
- 1 tbsp yeast
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 cups flour
- 4 tbsp melted butter
- Course salt, for sprinking on top of the rolls
Instructions
- Add sugar and yeast to warm water, stir to combine and allow to rest for 5 minutes, or until foamy and bubbly.
- In the mixing bowl of your stand mixer combine 3 cups flour with 1 teaspoon salt. Pour in water/yeast/sugar mixture.
- Attach dough hook to mixer and let mixer knead for 3-5 minutes. Add addtional flour a ¼ cup at a time, until the dough pulls away from the sides of the mixing bowl. Dough will be sticky but smooth.
- Remove dough hook and cover bowl with plastic wrap. Allow dough to rest for 20 minutes in a warm spot.
- Preheat oven to 400° F. Spray a 13X9 inch pan with non-stick cooking spray.
- Punch down dough and remove from mixing bowl onto a lightly floured surface.
- Divide dough into 20 equal sized pieces.
- Roll each piece of dough into a ball and place in prepared pan.
- Brush rolls with melted butter and sprinkle with course salt.
- Allow dough to rest for 20 minutes while oven is preheating.
- Bake for 13-15 minutes until a light golden brown. Turn on broiler and brown the tops for 1-2 minutes.
- Remove rolls from the oven and brush with more melted butter.
- Allow rolls to cool slightly before serving.
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