# Soft Homemade Dinner Rolls

This recipe provides instructions for making soft and fluffy dinner rolls, with a focus on how to freeze the dough for later use.

- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2.5 cups warm water
- 2 Tbsp active dry yeast
- 0.5 cup salted butter, melted
- 2 tsp salt
- 0.5 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 7 cups all-purpose flour

## Instructions

1. Combine warm water and yeast.
2. Add butter, salt, sugar, egg, and flour; mix and knead for 10 minutes.
3. Place dough in a greased bowl, cover, and let rise for 40 minutes.
4. Punch down the dough and divide it into rolls.
5. Cover the rolls and let them rise for 30 minutes.
6. Bake at 350°F for 22–25 minutes.
7. Form dough into 55 gram balls.
8. Place the formed dough balls on parchment paper, ensuring nothing is touching, and put them into the freezer for three hours until firm.
9. After freezing for three hours, take the dough out and put it into a Ziploc bag.
10. To bake later, place the frozen rolls in a casserole dish or on a plate and let them thaw and rise for about four hours until soft, puffy, and doubled.

## Equipment

- parchment paper
- Ziploc bag
- casserole dish
- plate
- baking sheet
- greased bowl

## Tips

- Freeze shaped dough balls until firm (about 3 hours) on a baking sheet before transferring to a freezer bag.
- To bake later, place frozen rolls on a greased baking sheet and let them thaw and rise for about 4 hours until soft, puffy, and doubled.
- The frozen dough works just as well as fresh dough.

## Source

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- Extracted: 2026-01-28

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