Grammy's Kitchen · Dinner Rolls · The Best Dinner Rolls
One of 42 dinner rolls recipes we measured
from houseofnasheats.com
4 cooks on houseofnasheats.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 42.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| liquid | 60% | 63% |
| fat | 9% | 18% |
| total sugar | 6% | 12% |
| egg | 8% | 12% |
| yeast | 2% | 2% |
| salt | 1% | 2% |
| dairy | 50% | 51% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 305 g | 1 1/4 cups whole milk |
| 59 g | 1/4 cup water |
| 57 g | 1/4 cup (57g) salted butter (softened) |
| 38 g | 3 Tablespoons granulated sugar |
| 9 g | 1 Tablespoon instant or active dry yeast |
| 50 g | 1 large egg |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon table salt |
| 604 g | 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 cups (604g to 639g) all-purpose flour |
| Additional butter for brushing finished rolls |
Method: 9 steps, published by houseofnasheats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“I followed the recipe and they turned out well. This was my first time making dinner rolls from scratch. The rolls are huge and can be deceiving that you’ll never be able to eat one by itself. Highly recommend the butter as the final step as the recipe su” — a cook, 5.0★
“These came out great! I divided the dough into 15 pieces (to accommodate the number of people at the dinner table) and arranged them in five rows in the recommended 9x13 pan. They rose and baked beautifully and were still plenty big to satisfy.” — a cook, 5.0★