Bring on the fluffy and soft dinner rolls! These golden brown little pillows of goodness are all I want between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And then I look forward to them around Easter time too. And you cannot forget days when you’re snowed in (Ha! It happens in Texas too now!) Basically, there’s no right or wrong time to eat a soft dinner roll is all I’m here to say. Garlic herb dinner rolls are absolutely perfect for Thanksgiving dinner for two reasons. 1.) They take just an hour to make. 2.) Because they’re a little more ‘fancy’ than your basic dinner roll recipe. And if you’re ever gonna be fancy with your food, you know it’s usually during the holidays! I’m sure there are all sorts of names for these soft dinner rolls. Amish rolls or potato rolls are just a couple of them. But the fact of the matter is that my homemade dinner rolls almost always contain one ingredient that gives them that tenderness for days. Have you guessed it yet? It’s instant potato flakes. Don’t worry, you can’t even tell that they’re there! They add the most luxuriously sweet, creamy taste and make anything you add them to instantly better. Sorry, I couldn’t resist! This recipe is a new spin on an old favorite. We’re taking my basic one hour dinner rolls recipe that I love serving with honey butter and amping it up in the best way possible — with herbs and garlic. I know making bread or homemade dinner rolls isn’t always easy to do. In fact, it can be quite daunting if you haven’t done it before. This recipe is simple and easy to make, even if you’re a beginner at bread baking. Just make sure you read through the instructions before starting. That way you know exactly what comes next.
Ingredients for garlic herb soft dinner rolls:
Butter: this is the main fat used in the recipe. Fats like butter aid in giving bread or dinner rolls tenderness, structure, and richness and flavor. The melted butter is used in two different ways here. First, we’ll use some of it in the preparation for the dough. Then, we’ll use the rest to brush on the rolls when they’re hot from the oven.Whole Milk: the warm milk helps quicken the process for these rolls.Water: we’ll heat the water to luke warm with the milk and some of the butter to make the wet ingredients for the dough.All-Purpose Flour: I don’t suggest using bread flour for this recipe. Bread flour is wonderful hen you’re trying to make a crusty bread loaf. But for a soft dinner rolls or hot cross buns or cinnamon rolls, all purpose flour does work best.Instant Potato Flakes: This is my secret little rockstar ingredients for the softest dinner rolls!Rapid Rise Yeast: make sure to use rapid rise so that you don’t have to wait for the yeast to activate.Granulated Sugar: is food for the yeast and gives the bread a slightly sweet flavor.Salt: adds that touch of sodium that we need in baked goods.Garlic Powder: helps amp up the garlic flavor in the bread portion of the recipe. We’ll top it with more garlic butter at the end so the flavor is pronounced.Herbs: I like to use rosemary and fish parsley. We’ll brush the garlicherb rolls with the butter when they’re hot out of the oven. You can hear the butter sizzling and sealing all the garlicky coolness into the rolls and it pure heaven!Egg: we’ll add this in with the other wet ingredients to add structure to the dough.Fresh Garlic: for the garlicherb butter you’ll need a couple of tablespoons of butter and a couple of cloves of garlic. We’ll minced the garlic for a more pronounced garlic flavor. The key is to allow the butter to melt with the garlic in a saucepan so that the butter is layered with flavor and the garlic doesn’t burn.
Making the best soft dinner rolls:
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Make sure to use instant dry potato flakes for this recipe. You can use the garlic variety if you want to add more garlicky goodness in too!Rapid-rise yeast is also known as ‘instant’ yeast. If you use active dry yeast, note that the proofing times will be significantly longer. For best results, I suggest following the recipe exactly as written.For the garlic butter - use whole cloves of garlic for less intense garlic flavor or mince the garlic for a more robust dinner roll experience.
