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Easy One-Hour Dinner Rolls
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Easy One-Hour Dinner Rolls

Easy One-Hour Dinner Rolls produce soft, slightly sweet small rolls made from a yeast-leavened dough that is kneaded and shaped into 16 portions. The dough combines flour, sugar, rapid-rise yeast, salt, liquids, butter, and lemon juice to achieve a tender crumb and light texture. Baking at a low temperature helps rise and bake the dough thoroughly within an hour.

Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
1 hr
Servings: 15 rolls
Course: Bread
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 3 1/2 cups (17.5 oz) to 4 cups all-purpose flour (scooped and leveled)
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 Tbsp Rapid Rise Yeast
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup water cool
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 4 Tbsp unsalted butter diced into 1 Tbsp pieces, plus more for tops
  • 1 1/2 tsp lemon juice

Instructions

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  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Fahrenheit. In the bowl of an electric stand mixer whisk together 3 1/2 cups flour, the sugar, yeast and salt.
  2. To a medium bowl add water, milk and butter and heat in microwave on HIGH power until it reaches 120 degrees on a thermometer, about 1 minute 15 seconds. Stir to partially melt butter (you just want to make sure it's softened through).
  3. Pour milk mixture into dry mixture in bowl of electric stand mixer along with lemon juice.
  4. Set mixer with a hook attachment then set mixer on low speed and gradually increase to medium-low, knead about 3 minutes until smooth and elastic while adding additional flour as necessary (dough should be lightly sticky but manageable).
  5. Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap and rest 5 minutes. Meanwhile butter a 13 by 9-inch baking dish.
  6. Drop dough onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into an evenly level square, about 9 by 9-inches. Cut into 16 equal portions (don't have to be exact)
  7. Shape dough into 15 balls, while using excess dough from the 16th portion to add to smaller rounds as needed, and place shaped dough portions into prepared baking dish.
  8. Dampen hands with water and brush tops of dough with the water (just so they don't dry while rising in oven). Transfer to oven, close oven and turn oven off, allow rolls to rise 20 minutes (don't open oven door).
  9. Remove from oven and preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit (this should take about 5 minutes, so just allow rolls to rest on counter while oven preheats).
  10. Bake in preheated oven 14 - 16 minutes until tops are golden brown. Remove from oven and run the top of a stick of butter along tops of rolls just to coat. Serve warm. Store in an airtight container (I recommend rewarming cool rolls in microwave for best results.