Easy Soft Dinner Rolls No Mixer Egg Free

Soft dinner rolls only need two sets of rising times and one handy trick to get your dough rising faster than usual. You’re going to love this bread recipe! So fluffy and soft on both the inside and the outside, with a perfect salt and sugar ratio, making these rolls 10 times better than any store-bought rolls. So many of our recipes, including our Pumpkin Soup, Beef and Guiness Stew and our Cream of Mushroom Soup, are begging for a soft piece of bread to help mop up the excess mouthwatering sauce. The softer and fluffier, the better.

DINNER ROLLS

I don’t even want to tell you how many batches of dinner rolls I went through to get this one right. How many hours and sleepless nights I spent on the internet researching all about yeast, flour and eggs or no eggs, milk or just water. SO. MUCH. WORK. Then came the testing. With eggs/without eggs, with regular milk or buttermilk, or perhaps a water mixture? Lord, help me. But fear not, because I hit the jackpot with this batch of dinner rolls. These rolls came out of the oven looking, smelling and feeling perfect. I honestly could have cried. You know what the best part is? Carb lovers, gather round now, I know you’re feeling me when I say this – that warm, fresh bread smell wafting from the kitchen into every room of the house – that’s what you’re going to get!

DO I NEED A MIXER?

Don’t get me wrong, I HAVE a mixer, but in the time it took to drag the 200 pound machine out (ok, minor exaggeration), and get the attachments set up, I had already mixed my flour through the activated yeast mixture. Throwing my mixer out the window.

HOW TO MAKE DINNER ROLLS

YEAST

DISSOLVING SUGAR IN A MILK/BUTTER MIXTURE

Warming your milk and butter in the microwave together is quicker than doing them seperate, plus adding your remaining sugar and salt into the warm milk/butter ensures your sugar dissolves before adding it to your mixing bowl. As soon as you’ve poured your butter/milk mixture into the yeast, add in your flour. This is where having everything handy and ready to use on your bench is going to be of benefit to you.

FLOUR

This is the only thing I’m going to ask you to buy that you may not already have in your kitchen pantries (besides maybe yeast). Bread flour. No, please don’t leave me! You can use all purpose or plain flour, but after vigorous testing, I found all purpose flour produced a slightly heavier, denser bread roll. Not to my liking. If you like super airy, fluffy and soft dinner rolls, go with bread flour.

KNEADING DINNER ROLLS

Now, as promised, not much kneading is necessary. First, mix your dough in your BIG bowl. When your dough starts to pull way from the bowl, it will still be sticky. I found rubbing your hands in a light coating of oil to get them ready for kneading helps you to handle the dough when it gets too sticky. Here are the two kneading options I tried:

Add a couple of tablespoons of flour to the dough while still in the bowl, giving it a light knead. I kneaded for about 4-5 minutes, not properly because the dough is not on a bench top, but it still did the trick!

Scraping the dough out onto a lightly floured surface to knead. Sprinkle with 2-3 tablespoons of flour, rub your hands in a touch of oil, and go to work for only about 3-4 minutes. The dough comes together so fast – wet and sticky.

PROOFING

PROOF TWO

Ah the aroma. The SWEET, sweet smells coming from your kitchen will be intoxicating. Once your dinner rolls have baked, brush them over with a light coating of melted butter. Most people use egg whites or an egg wash, and you can totally do this if you like! We have egg allergies over here, which is why this Easy Soft Dinner Rolls recipe has no egg!

Our dinner rolls are amazing the day of baking, but are equally as good the next day!

WHAT TO SERVE WITH DINNER ROLLS

Use your dinner rolls to mop up the sauce in our Crispy Skin Turkey and Gravy, Easy Baked Salmon with Lemon Butter Cream Sauce or our Easy Lobster Bisque.