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These are the BEST Homemade Garlic Rolls! They’re quick dinner rolls done in no time because they’re so simple – and they taste so good topped with a garlic herb butter!
It should come as no surprise that dinner rolls reign supreme in my house. If I can find a way to make homemade dinner rolls and serve them with any meal, I will. Whether we’re having soup or salad or just chicken, I always want some sort of soft dinner roll side dish.
Even on Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter when we’re hosting a huge meal with tons of side dishes, I have to make homemade rolls. Dinner isn’t complete without a soft and buttery roll on every plate.
Ingredient Notes
- All-Purpose Flour – I always use this but bread flour can be substituted
- Instant Yeast – this recipe is written for Instant Yeast (depending on the brand it might be called RapidRise or similar)
- Milk – You can use any kind of milk, even nondairy
- Garlic Powder – for topping You can also use freshly minced garlic.
How to make Garlic Rolls
- Whisk together the dry ingredients (2 cups flour with sugar, salt, and yeast) in a large bowl.
- Heat your wet ingredients (milk, water, and butter) to between 120°-130°F. It’s best to use an instant read thermometer to test your temperature but you can also use the “feels like hot bathwater” test. This takes about 60-90 seconds in the microwave.
- The dough will be slightly sticky to the touch when it’s done mixing.
- Knead your dough on a floured surface for 8-10 minutes, until it’s nice and elastic, then let the instant yeast work it’s magic while it rests for just 10 minutes.
- This recipe makes 18 dinner rolls.
- Brush the herb butter over the bread dough. Let it rise again, then bake.
Expert Tips
- This recipe is modeled after Parker House Rolls, a famous kind of dinner roll. Basically, each rectangle is brushed with butter and rolled into a tight spiral for baking.
- Once the rolls are baked, brush them with more butter. These end up being the perfect garlic bread rolls!
- If you want a more traditional roll shape, roll the strips into balls instead of folding them.
Homemade Garlic Rolls Recipe
Learn how to make easy homemade dinner rolls with garlic and herbs! These are our favorite easy dinner rolls because they have so much flavor from the butter and garlic and herbs.
Recipe Video
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Rise Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 4 ¾ to 5 ¼ cups (589-651g) all-purpose flour
- ⅓ cup (67g) granulated sugar
- 2 envelopes instant yeast
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- ¾ cup (177ml) milk
- ¾ cup (177ml) water
- ¼ cup (57g) unsalted butter
- 1 large egg
For the filling:
- ¼ cup (57g) unsalted butter melted
- 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
Instructions
- Place 2 cups flour, sugar, yeast and salt in a large mixer bowl. Whisk to combine.
- Place milk, water, and 1/4 cup butter in a measuring cup. Heat in the microwave until very warm (120° to 130°F). Measure the temperature with an instant read thermometer or think hot bathwater if you don’t have a thermometer.
- Pour wet ingredients into flour mixture. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed of electric mixer, scraping bowl occasionally. Add egg and 1/2 cup flour; beat 2 minutes at high speed.
- Stir in enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Dough will be slightly sticky to the touch.
- Place dough on a floured surface. Knead on until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes. You’ll know it’s done kneading when the dough will spring back when touched with two fingers.
- Cover; let rest 10 minutes.
- At this point, if you want to make the rolls ahead, place dough in a greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and allow to rise in refrigerator for 12 to 24 hours.
- Divide dough in half; roll each half to a 12-inch square, about 1/4-inch thick.
- Cut each into 6 strips. Cut each strip into 3 rectangles.
- Stir together filling ingredients in a small bowl.
- Brush each rectangle with melted butter mixture. Fold the dough over once and roll into a spiral. Arrange in rows, slightly overlapping, on greased baking sheets, with shorter seam of each roll facing down. Allow 1/4-inch of space between each row. Reserve any leftover butter mixture for after baking.
- Cover; let rise in warm, draft-free place until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until done. Remove from sheets; cool on wire rack. Brush hot rolls with remaining butter mixture.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 2 days.
Recipe Nutrition
Serving: 1roll | Calories: 98kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 27mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 94IU | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
Other recipes using yeast:
- Buttery Homemade Rolls (4 shapes)
- Pumpkin Spice Cinnamon Rolls
- Easy White Bread
- Cinnamon Swirl Bread
- Breakfast Pizza
- Check out all my bread recipes!
Serve these homemade dinner rolls with:
This recipe is slightly adapted from the Breadworld website.
These are absolutely delicious. Next time, I’m going to roll mozzarella cheese in the rolls. Yum!
Hi, How much normal instant yeast should i use. I cant find the rapid instant yeast here. Thanks!
These are absolutely amazing!!! I didn’t have any Italian seasoning so I mixed my unsalted butter with salt, garlic powder oregano and thyme. Seriously easy! We will make these over and over!
These are so delicious and easy
These are wonderful Thank you so much
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