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Brown and Serve Dinner Rolls

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Prep a batch or two of these delicious and easy brown and serve dinner rolls with your bread maker and freeze them for up to 3 weeks ahead of your holiday meal. You could enjoy half the dinner rolls with dinner tonight and save the other half for another night, too.
PREP TIME 1 hour 45 minutes
PRE-BAKE TIME: 15 minutes
COOK TIME 10 minutes
TOTAL TIME 2 hours 10 minutes
YIELD 16 dinner rolls

Ingredients
  

For the Bread Dough:

  • 1 cup + 1 tablespoon milk I used 2%
  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 2 eggs
  • 6 tablespoons softened butter diced
  • 4 1/4 cups (616g) all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

For the Finished Dinner Rolls:

  • 4 tablespoons butter melted

Instructions

Prepare the Dinner Rolls:

  • Add all the ingredients for the bread dough to the bread machine pan fitted with the paddle attachment in the order they are listed, starting with the liquid ingredients and ending with the dry ingredients right on top.
  • Add the bread pan to the bread maker and select the DOUGH program. Press start.
  • The dough should be ready to work with in about 1 1/2 hours. Meanwhile, set out the cake pans or aluminum foil pans you plan to bake the dinner rolls in. You can use 1 9x13-inch pan, 2 11x7-inch pans, 2 9-inch pans, or 2 cake pans.
  • Transfer the dough to a lightly floured surface and divide it in half. Then divide each half into 8 equal portions, making a total of 16 dinner roll portions.
  • Shape the dinner rolls and place in your pans. Let them rise for 30 minutes or until they have doubled in size.
  • Preheat the oven to 300°F. Bake the dinner rolls in the center of the oven for just 15 - 20 minutes. They should bake through but should not get golden brown.
  • Remove the dinner rolls from the oven and let cool completely.

Storage Instructions:

  • Place the pans of rolls in a freezer-friendly storage bag or wrap them in heavy-duty freezer foil. You can refrigerate them for up to 3 days or freeze them for up to 3 weeks.

Brown and Serve:

  • Thaw frozen dinner rolls on the counter or in the refrigerator overnight.
  • Preheat the oven to 375°F. Meanwhile, brush the dinner rolls with the melted butter.
  • Bake the rolls for 10 - 14 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.
COURSEBread
CUISINEAmerican
AUTHORTiffany Dahle