Quick Dinner Rolls/buns Recipe / Soft and Fluffy Dinner Rolls in 4 simple steps

HOW TO MAKE QUICK DINNER ROLLS

We can make quick dinner rolls in 4 simple steps.

1.Prepare the dough

2.Divide and shape the dough

3.Proof the dough

4.Bake the dinner rolls

INGREDIENTS NEEDED TO MAKE QUICK DINNER ROLLS

1. Flour :325 g (2 1/2 cups)
2. Slightly warm milk (not hot) :150 ml (1/2 cup +2 tbsp)
3. 1 Egg
4. Butter :50g (3 1/2 tbsp)
5. Yeast (instant/active dried yeast):1 tsp
6. Sugar :2 1/2 tbsp (30g)
7. Salt:1 1/4 tsp(7g)

1.PREPARE THE QUICK DINNER ROLL DOUGH

Into a bowl,lets add all our ingredients together and mix them to form a shaggy mass of dough.

Add the milk,sugar,yeast,egg,salt ,butter and flour and mix them together.

Transfer the dough onto a clean work surface and knead the dough until the dough become soft and elastic.Only a well kneaded dough can produce soft and fluffy dinner rolls .

How should i know my dough is kneaded well?

We can test the doneness of dinner roll dough :If properly kneaded, the dough should stretch, without tearing or breaking, into a thin membrane that you can see through.

If we are using bread flour it is easy to attain this stage of dough(it may take around 10 minutes of kneading);As bread dough contains more proteins than all purpose flour.

But if we are using all purpose flour,it may take longer to attain this stage of perfection.

Our bread would still be good and soft even if our dough didn’t pass this window pane test.But if the dough passes the window pane test ,and the one hour proofing,then it is guaranteed that your bread will be super soft and fluffy.

It will be so much easier if you are using a mixer to prepare the dough.In a stand mixer,just knead the dough for 8-10 minutes using the dough hook attachment

2.DIVIDE AND SHAPE THE DOUGH

Once our quick dinner roll dough is ready,divide the dough into 15 equal pieces.For more precision,i weighed each of them and they were 40-41 g in weight.

Roll each piece of dough into small balls.tuck in the edges towards the centre and roll the balls into small round balls.

Place the rolls into a nonstick baking tray or on to parchment lined baking tray or on to a well greased baking tray.

3.PROOF THE DINNER ROLL DOUGH

Let the dough ball sit in a warm environment for about 60 minutes or until they puff up and get doubled in size.

After an hour,brush the top of those rolls with an egg wash to make our rolls shiny and golden brown in colour when they are baked.

Now they are ready to to go into the oven.

4 BAKE THE DINNER ROLLS

Bake the rolls in a 375 F preheated oven for 18-20 minutes.

top get burned too fast,

How to prevent the top of rolls from over browning ?

1. Place an aluminum foil on top to prevent over browning,whenever you feel so
2. You can place the baking tray way from the heating coils to prevent this issue..(i placed my baking tray in the lowest rack of the oven as the heating coils were on the upside)

If the dinner rolls are underbaked, the inside will be doughy and they smell yeasty. So bake sufficiently for 17-20 minutes.