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Easy Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe in a Bread Machine
Soft dinner rolls are comforting, soft, fluffy, and buttery. Fresh and homemade soft buns are always a favorite for dinner.
Easy dinner rolls go for any main or side dish. Homemade bread is a staple at the dinner table! This sweet dinner rolls recipe is perfect for Thanksgiving, family dinners, or any night of the week. Baking bread isn’t a hard task to master!
Bread machine dinner rolls make the process so much easier. Instead of kneading the dough, using a mixing bowl, or any other difficult process, combine the ingredients in a bread machine. This simplifies the process for homemade dinner rolls!
Soft, doughy, and pillowy treats are the best. Whether you enjoy them as sweet cinnamon rolls or these savory bread rolls, you know that spreading a pat of butter on top is the best way to enjoy them!
Table of Contents
Key Ingredients
Dry ingredients
Dry Active Yeast: This easy recipe calls for just 2 tsp of active dry yeast. If you buy the little packets, 1 will be enough.
Sugar: Gives the rolls a hint of sweetness.
Flour: I usually use Canadian flour, which I get at Costco when visiting my in-laws. I have only tried this recipe with the all-purpose flour, Canadian flour, and baking flour. I haven’t tried others, so I can’t say if all kinds of flour would work. But make sure the flour you use is unbleached!
Salt: To bring out the flavors.
Wet Ingredients
Warm Water and Warm Milk: These serve as our liquids for the bread dough, and make sure it’s warm, not hot.
Eggs: You will need two eggs plus one more for brushing the tops of the buns to give them a golden color.
Melted Butter: Make sure it’s unsalted.
Find the full printable recipe with specific measurements below.
How to Make Easy Soft Dinner Rolls at Home
I used a bread machine for this recipe. You could also use a hand mixer for the following steps. You can use a stand mixer and follow the steps.
Step 1: Mix the yeast first
Into a small bowl add yeast, 2 teaspoons of sugar, and ½ cup of warm water. Let it rise for 15 minutes.
Step 2: Add to the bread machine
In a bread machine bowl add the rest of the sugar and warm water. Combine with the rest of the ingredients.
Step 3: Make the dough
Turn on the DOUGH setting on your bread machine, and let it do the job. My bread machine takes 2 hours and 20 minutes. This can vary depending on your machine.
Step 4: Prep the pan
Spray a rectangular 18″ X 13″ baking sheet. (If your pan is not a nonstick type, then you should put a sheet of parchment paper.)
Step 5: Form the balls
The dough will be easy to work with. Use unbleached flour to form the dough into 24 balls and lay them on the baking sheet.
Step 6: Rise
Let rise for 35 minutes.
Step 7: Preheat the oven
Preheat the oven to 360F.
Step 8: Brush the egg
For the nice golden color of the soft buns, whisk the egg and brush on the tops of the buns.
Step 9: Bake
Place in the oven for 20 minutes.
Step 10: Enjoy
Let it cool down and enjoy!
Expert Tips
- Check the yeast so that is not expired (it happens)!
- Use a kitchen scale to measure out ingredients accurately.
- Let the dinner rolls rise before placing them in the oven (35 minutes).
- Make sure you have a clean work surface when working with the dough.
- Make sure you chose “dough” setting for the bread machine.
Recipe FAQs
Store rolls in an airtight container in a warm place to keep bread rolls fresh the next day.
Using bread flour, this one is my favorite Bob’s Red Mill. My favorite flour to use is Canadian flour all-purpose flour.
Yes, after shaping the rolls, cover and refrigerate overnight. Bring to room temperature before baking.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to two days or freeze for longer storage.
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Easy Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe in a Bread Machine
Equipment
- Bread machine
- parchment paper
- small bowl
Ingredients
- 2 tsp yeast
- ⅓ cup sugar
- 1½ cups warm water
- 2 large eggs
- ½ cup unsalted butter, melted
- ¼ cup warm milk, I used organic 2%
- 1 tsp salt
- 5 cups unbleached flour, + a handful for shaping buns
- 1 large egg, for brushing the tops of the buns, optional
Instructions
- I used a bread machine for this recipe. You could also use a hand mixer for the following steps. you can use a stand mixer and follow the steps.
- Into a small bowl add yeast, 2 teaspoons of sugar, and ½ cup of warm water. Let it rise for 15 minutes.2 tsp yeast, ⅓ cup sugar, 1½ cups warm water
- In bread machine bowl add the rest of the sugar and warm water. Combine with the rest of the ingredients.⅓ cup sugar, 1½ cups warm water, 2 large eggs, ½ cup unsalted butter,, ¼ cup warm milk,, 1 tsp salt, 5 cups unbleached flour,
- Turn on the DOUGH setting on your bread machine, and let it do the job. My bread machine takes 2 hours and 20 minutes. This can vary depending on your machine.
- Spray a rectangular 18″ X 13″ baking sheet. (If your pan is not a nonstick type, then you should put a sheet of parchment paper.)
- The dough will be easy to work with. Use unbleached flour to form the dough into 24 balls and lay them on the baking sheet.
- Let rise for 35 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 360F.
- For the nice golden color of the soft buns, whisk 1 large egg and brush on the tops of the buns.1 large egg,
- Place in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Let it cool down and enjoy!
Notes
- Make sure the yeast is not expired before starting to make this recipe.
- Use a really good quality unbleached all purpose flour.