Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls Recipe
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Serves: 15 dinner rolls
 
Ingredients
  • Whole milk – 240 ml / 1 cup
  • Active dry yeast – 1 tbsp
  • Sugar – 2 tbsp
  • All-purpose flour – 400 gms / 3 & ¼ cups
  • Salt – 1 tsp
  • Egg – 1
  • Unsalted butter – 50 gms / 3 tbsp, softened
  • Melted butter – 2 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Take the whole milk in a microwave safe measuring cup and warm it to 110 F – 115 F. It should feel warm to touch but not too hot.
  2. Add the active dry yeast and 1 tablespoon of sugar to the warm milk and give a quick stir. Let the milk sit for 5 minutes until the yeast becomes frothy.
  3. Take the all-purpose flour in a large bowl and add salt, sugar and egg to it. Stir it with a spatula to give a good mix.
  4. Then make a well in the middle of the bowl and pour the milk-yeast mixture in between. Also add the softened unsalted butter to it.
  5. Now start mixing the dry and wet ingredients with the spatula until they come together. Once the dough starts to form, scrape all the flour from spatula and start kneading the dough with hand. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes until it becomes smooth and supple. It will still remain somewhat sticky but will look quite smooth.
  6. Drizzle about a tablespoon of olive oil into the bowl and coat the dough with oil on all sides. Then let the dough rest in that bowl, covered with a plastic wrap & preferably in a warm spot, for 90 minutes or until the dough is risen and doubled in size. This is called proofing.
  7. During the proofing time, prepare a 9x13 baking dish by lining it with parchment paper. Set it aside.
  8. Once the dough is appropriately proofed, un-wrap and degas the dough. Dust the work-surface with little flour and place the dough on it.
  9. Shape the dough in a long log and cut out 15 portions of dinner rolls as shown in the video. Shape each portion into dinner rolls and place it on the prepared baking dish leaving some gap between 2 rolls.
  10. Once all the rolls are shaped and arranged, cover the baking dish with a greased plastic wrap to avoid sticking.
  11. Again, proof the shaped dinner rolls for another 1 hour or until they become double in size. While the second proofing is in progress, preheat your oven to 190 C / 375 F and place the wire rack at lowest level.
  12. Bake the proofed dinner rolls for about 15-20 minutes or until the top of the dinner rolls turn golden brown.
  13. Remove the golden dinner rolls from oven and brush the top with melted butter. Serve the rolls warm with butter. Enjoy!
Recipe by Flavor Quotient at http://www.flavorquotient.com/2018/01/easy-homemade-dinner-rolls-recipe/