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Soft, light and fluffy homemade dinner rolls are the perfect addition to your dinner table for any occasion. Easy to make, full of flavor, and are so much better than store-bought dinner rolls.
Perfectly baked and fluffy homemade dinner rolls that are so much better than the store-bought version. You will have a hard time stopping at only one dinner roll. These healthy homemade dinner rolls are made with whole wheat flour, a hint of honey, olive oil, milk, and some fresh herbs. Enjoy these easy-to-make rolls over breakfast or serve as a side on your dinner table.
Why you will love these dinner rolls
- Better than store-bought: these dinner rolls are out of this world. They taste so much better than the store-bought version. Especially when they come right out of the oven.
- Easy to make: It’s really easy to make these savory-sweet dinner rolls. If you don’t like the taste of the herbs, you may skip them and make simple wholewheat honey dinner rolls.
- Healthy and delicious: These easy dinner rolls are healthy, fluffy, and full of deliciousness. They are the perfect addition to your dinner table.
Ingredients you will need
low-fat milk, warm
instant yeast
honey
whole wheat flour
fresh parsley or rosemary- or dried
garlic powder
Salt and white pepper to taste
egg
olive oil
How to make homemade dinner rolls from scratch
Place the milk into a microwave-safe bowl and heat just until lukewarm. Add in the yeast, oil, honey, rosemary, parsley, and garlic, and mix until well combined.
Place the egg in a mixing bowl and slightly beat, then add it to the milk mixture and whisk well. Mix the flour with 1/4 tsp fine kosher salt.
Add the flour little by little, to the egg mixture and mix to incorporate. It will form into a crumbly dough; At this point, you can transfer it into a clean floured working surface.
Lightly grease your hands and knead the dough. Place dough into a bowl, cover, and allow it to sit until it doubled its size, about 1 hour. Once the dough has raised, divide it into 14-15 pieces and shape them into balls.
Line a large sheet pan with parchment paper and arrange the balls onto it, making sure you leave about 1-inch space in between. Cover the pan and allow them to rise for another 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 375F. Place the sheet pan into the preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes. Allow the rolls to cool before serving.
what to eat with dinner rolls
- Turkey Meatballs in Curry Sauce
- Vegetarian Meatballs
- Italian Baked Turkey Meatballs
- Creamy Chicken Stew
- Homemade Hummus
- Creamy Coconut Chicken
- Cabbage Roll Soup
Recipe notes and tips
- Makes 12-15 rolls
- Knead with your hand or use your dough mixer
- We used wheat flour, feel free to use bread flour or gluten-free flour.
- Honey or use regular sugar
- Herbs: we used fresh parsley and rosemary. You may use dried.
- Low-fat or full-fat milk.
- Do not rush, allow the recommended time to fully rise.
- You may brush on some olive oil or melted butter over the dough before you bake.
- Store any leftover dinner rolls in the fridge for up to 5 days. You may freeze baked dinner rolls for up to 3 months. Defrost and warm them in the microwave.
- If you want to make the dough ahead and freeze, you can do so before they rise. When ready, remove from the freezer, let them defrost in the fridge or counter. Then cover and let them rise before baking.
Frequently asked questions
Place leftover dinner rolls in a container or ziplock bag and store in the fridge for 5-7 days. You make freeze your homemade dinner rolls for up to 3 months.
If your dinner rolls are frozen, you may allow them to defrost in the fridge the night before or on your kitchen counter for a few hours. Then reheat in the microwave for 15-20 seconds. If you have a whole batch of dinner rolls you want to reheat, preheat the oven at 350F, cover dinner rolls with foil and place them in the oven for about 7-10 minutes until warmed through.
If you dinner rolls come out a bit hard and aren’t as fluffy as you expected its because you probably used too much flour or you over mixed it.
Yes! You can actually put your frozen dinner rolls right into a preheated oven. Preheat your oven at 325-350F and place the frozen dinner rolls right on your oven rack. Allow it to reheat for 10-12 minutes.
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- Cilantro Lime Chicken Bites
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Easy Homemade Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup low-fat milk, warm
- 2 tsp instant yeast
- 2 1/2 tbsp honey
- 3 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 1/2 tbsp finely chopped fresh rosemary, or 1 tsp dried
- 1 tbsp parsley , finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp Kosher salt, to taste
- 1/4 tsp white pepper
- 1 large egg , at room temperature
- 1/2 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Place the milk into n microwave-safe bowl and heat just until lukewarm
- Add in the yeast, honey, rosemary, parsley, and garlic, and mix until well combined.
- Place the egg and oil in a mixing bowl and slightly beat, then add it to the milk mixture and whisk well. Mix the flour with 1/4 tsp fine kosher salt.
- Add the flour little by little, to the egg mixture and mix to incorporate. It will form into a crumbly dough; At this point, you can transfer it into a clean floured working surface.
- Lightly grease your hands and knead the dough. Place dough into a bowl, cover, and allow it to sit until it doubled its size, about 1 hour.
- Once the dough has raised, divide it into 14-15 pieces and shape them into balls.
- Line a large sheet pan with parchment paper and arrange the balls onto it, making sure you leave about 1-inch space in between. Cover the pan and allow them to rise for another 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 375F. Place the sheet pan into the preheated oven and bake for 12-15 minutes.
- Allow the rolls to cool before serving.
Notes
- Makes 12-15 rolls
- Knead with your hand or use your dough mixer
- We used wheat flour, feel free to use bread flour or gluten-free flour.
- Honey or use regular sugar
- Herbs: we used fresh parsley and rosemary. You may use dried.
- Low-fat or full-fat milk.
- Do not rush, allow the recommended time to fully rise.
- You may brush on some olive oil or melted butter over the dough before you bake.
- Store any leftover dinner rolls in the fridge for up to 5 days. You may freeze baked dinner rolls for up to 3 months. Defrost and warm them in the microwave.
- If you want to make the dough ahead and freeze, you can do so before they rise. When ready, remove from the freezer, let them defrost in the fridge or counter. Then cover and let them rise before baking.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
When do you add the olive oil? Also, the ingredients say 1/4 tsp salt and the instructions say 1/2tsp?
Hi. It goes in with the egg mixture. the salt is 1/4 tsp
How long do you knead for? Until the dough is no longer sticky? This worried me because you mnentioned not overworking it but my dough was still so sticky. I used bread flour….
It shouldnt be sticky. Knead until you feel its right and not too sticky
These Dinner rolls are something I wanted to try and while searching for the steps I came across this post by you. It was all because of this post that I could make it so easily thank you so much for putting up this recipe.
The recipe is pretty interesting and i am willing to do those but i am not sure if i should keep the milk mixture settle before mixing it with the egg or not.
And when i mix those with the flour should i keep the dough rest for a bit or should i start working on the dough on a flat surface? And when i shape the dough, should it rest for a bit or can i put right into the oven?
Also, i would like to thank you for sharing this, love it!
Hi there. The milk mixture doesn’t have to settle, you can mix it right away into the beaten eggs. The dough needs to be worked on a floured surface, then when it all comes into a fluffy ball, transfer to an oiled bowl and allow it to rise for 1 hour. The shaped rolls also need to rise in the pan for about 30 min
Really really good and simple to make. Husband loves this. Definitely one to keep.