Light and fluffy homemade 30-Minute Dinner Rolls ready in just 30 minutes from start to finish with simple ingredients and cooked to golden brown perfect.
These are some of the easiest dinner rolls you’ll ever make from scratch and are perfect for first time breadmakers, you won’t even need bread flour to make these easy dinner rolls!
Make these homemade dinner rolls with only a few ingredients and you will have the best homemade bread to make for the perfect addition to any holiday meal, busy weeknights, or any other special occasion.
Recipe Ingredients:
- Water: using warm water is important. Be sure to check out the best water temperature to make sure not to kill the yeast
- Oil: Use vegetable oil for the recipe but melted butter or olive oil would work as well
- Yeast: you will need to use active dry yeast (more than your normal recipe to get those delicious perfect rolls) I like to use Red Star yeast from the jar
- Sugar: use white sugar to feed the yeast perfectly (honey can work as well)
- Salt: use kosher salt for the best results
- Egg: the egg can be straight from the fridge, no need to wait for it to come to room temperature with this easy dinner roll recipe
- Flour: we enjoy using regular all-purpose flour for this dinner roll dough
How To Make 30 Minute Dinner Rolls:
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine warm water, oil, yeast, and sugar; let rest for 5-10 minutes or until frothy and bubbly (you can also make this recipe without a stand mixer – just use a big bowl, a large wooden spoon, and all your arm strength).
- With a dough hook, mix in salt, egg, and 2 cups of flour to the yeast mixture until combined. Then add the remaining flour – ½ cup at a time (dough will be sticky). Sometimes I need the full 3 ½ cups, sometimes I need less, and sometimes I need even more.
- Spray your hands with cooking spray and shape the dough into 12 balls.
- After shaping the yeast rolls, place on a lightly greased cookie sheet and let them rest and rise for 10 minutes.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until tops are lightly golden.
Expert Tips:
Our 30-minute dinner rolls are pretty light and fluffy. If your rolls are dense, we would suggest three things to get the perfect texture.
- Next time, knead them more. Unlike cookies (where you want to mix them as little as possible), bread needs to be mixed well in order for the gluten to develop for nice, fluffy rolls.
- Make sure your yeast isn’t expired. If your yeast doesn’t start to froth (like in the picture above), it may be expired and your bread won’t rise.
- Don’t use too much flour. Your dough should still be sticky during step 4 (that’s why we suggest adding 1/2 cup of flour at a time). If you live in a lower elevation, or somewhere with more humidity, you probably won’t need as much flour. Don’t feel like you need to add in all the flour the recipe suggests. Use your judgment.
Frequently Asked Questions about Making Tasty Deviled Eggs:
Parmesan Cheese – We love adding Parmesan cheese to these rolls. Sprinkle over top of rolls when removed from the oven, similar to our parmesan rolls.
Garlic Rolls – Simply drizzle melted butter over the baked rolls and add a sprinkle of garlic salt on top of the melted butter.
Honey Butter – We love to serve warm rolls with honey butter. You could even drizzle some over the warm cooked rolls.
Mix 2 teaspoons of yeast with a bit of warm water and 1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar or honey. If after a few minutes, the mixture becomes foamy with bubbles, then you know you have active yeast for the fluffy dinner rolls.
Your rolls would not rise if you killed the yeast. This can happen when you use too hot of water with the instant yeast. You want to make sure your warm water is around 110 degrees F to avoid killing the yeast.
Yes! Follow the recipe through step 3, and then add in the flour as mentioned in step 4. Instead of shaping them into balls, roll out the dough and brush with butter, and sprinkle with cinnamon and brown sugar.
Roll up the dough into a jelly-roll shape, then slice and place in a greased 9 x 13 inch pan. Let them rise for 10 minutes, then bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes (or until lightly browned on top).
Top the cinnamon rolls with frosting. We like to use buttercream or cream cheese frosting.
Make Ahead & Storage Instructions
Counter: Once cooled store these 30-minute rolls in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Main dish recipe serving suggestions:
30 Minute Homemade Rolls
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Ingredients
- 1 ⅛ cups warm water, (see note below)
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- 2 Tablespoons active dry yeast, (yes, it really is 2 Tbls)
- ¼ cup sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 3 ½ cups flour, (more or less; see instructions below)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400℉.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, combine warm water, oil, yeast, and sugar; let rest for 5-10 minutes or until frothy and bubbly (you can also make this recipe without a stand mixer – just use a big bowl, a large wooden spoon, and all your arm strength).
- With a dough hook, mix in salt, egg and 2 cups of flour until combined. Then add remaining flour – ½ cup at a time (dough will be sticky). Sometimes I need the full 3 ½ cups, sometimes I need less, and sometimes I need even more.
- Spray your hands with cooking spray and shape the dough into 12 balls.
- After shaped, place on lightly greased cookie sheet and let rest and rise for 10 minutes.
- Bake for about 10 minutes or until tops are lightly golden.
Notes
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