Dinner Rolls

My homemade dinner rolls are so irresistible. Warm and fresh from the oven, so soft and delicious. You too can make this simple recipe, it does not take long to prepare. Ingredients are just in your pantry; flour, milk, sugar, yeast, egg are just the main ingredients that I'm sure are always available in your kitchen. This recipe yields 9 pieces of regular size rolls. I double or triple the recipe if I have plenty of people to serve. We are just three at home so this recipe is just enough for a small family. 

Bread needs good kneading to develop the gluten that is the very base of bread to stretch and expand. Gluten makes the bread trap air and makes easier for the dough to rise to make your bread soft and fluffy. There are plenty of guides if you want to know more about breadmaking and the science of it.This dough mixture is sticky so be careful in adding flour to the dough to make it manageable. Adding too much flour on the dough when kneading dries up the dough and will result in heavy and tough bread. Let's get started...

Ingredients:
3/4 cup warm milk
1 teaspoon yeast
1 teaspoon sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoon butter or oil
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 egg

Method:

• In a deep bowl place your warm milk, add the yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar, stir and set aside to foam for 3 to 5 minutes. 
• Once the yeast mixture is ready add beaten egg, butter or oil, flour, 2 tablespoons sugar and salt. 
• Mix all ingredients then knead by hand 7 to 10 minutes if you have no kneading machine. 
• Oil or grease the deep bowl then place your dough formed into a ball to rise covered with cling film or cloth for 1 to 2 hours. 
• Punch down dough to release gas then form it again into a ball leave it inside the bowl to rest for 30 minutes covering loosely with cling film or cloth. 
• Now your dough is ready for shaping. Form your dough into a log then cut into 9 equal pieces. 
• Roll each piece into small balls then place them in your baking pan, let rise for final proofing for 1 hour. 

• Brush with butter or eggwash then bakes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 18 minutes. 

Remove from the oven let cool then brush with melted butter to have the gloss and buttery flavor. Enjoy your homemade dinner rolls.