Dinner Rolls

Freshly baked homemade dinner rolls are fabulous for any dinner table. With pillowy insides and crusty golden outsides.

It's nice to make home made bread. I love the whole process; I love creating the dough, seeing it rise (so much satisfaction), then moulding them into little balls and then baking them into golden-brown crunchy-fluffy pillows which fill the home with that 'bakery' smell.

The only problem is, everyone tends to overeat freshly baked dinner rolls because they are just so good and then you have to bake some more. Oh well, I guess there are worse problems.

Tips for making these bread Rolls

I highly recommend setting up your mis en place; measure everything out before hand as putting this recipe together is super easy

Don't skimp on the kneading or rising, this dramatically affects the result of the bread roll. Knead your dough with love to activate the gluten. I use my KitchenAid mixer* to do this.

Seek out a warm place (not hot) to allow your covered dough to rise. If your oven has a bread rising function, use it.

Create even dough balls, do this by weighing the dough (use a kitchen scale) and then evenly distributing into eight portions. Uneven dough balls will create uneven baking of the dinner rolls.

Make sure the top of the bread rolls has no seams, do this by rubbing your hand across the top of the balls and pull down on the edges so you can tuck any seams under.

When placing your dough balls onto the baking tray, place them close to each other just touching to allow them to bake into each other. The dough will swell whilst baking.

Brush dough balls with melted coconut oil. Do not drench, light brush them evenly. Side note; here's a quick read on vegan egg wash.

Check in on your dinner rolls as they bake, if they have reached your desired golden brown colour around the 15 minute mark, pull them out and allow them to rest.

Serve fresh or allow them to completely cool before covering them to store.

Dough balls are lightly coated into coconut oil ready to bake into dinner rolls

Dinner rolls are great to have with a soup, try one of my favourite soups to dunk these freshly baked bread rolls -lentil and carrot soup, easy butternut squash soup or potato and carrot soup.

For a little bit of Macedonian yumminess try dipping your bread in Tavce Gravce a wholesome kidney bean and vegetable in tomato dish.

Here's another bread recipe you want to try, it requires only 3 ingredients, it's called Australian Damper, and it's iconic for being semi-crumbly and crunchy.

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