Making soft and fluffy 'No knead dinner rolls' that anybody can make at home. Super easy and quick recipe for bread rolls lovers to try. Add all the ingredients to a bowl and mix with a spatula and keep a warm place to rise. Make rolls and bake. Voila!

These dinner rolls are extremely soft and light in weight. Making is so easy as you don't need any special tool to knead. Beginners and bachelors can also try this recipe and you will get a super soft dinner roll on your dinner table.
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What is No Knead?
"No knead" is basically a bread making technique that requires a long fermentation time. Here in this recipe, I kept the flour to rise for 2 hours. Kneading helps to form the gluten strands that make a perfect bread texture but here we only use ingredients and mixed with the spatula. So it's a world's easiest and soft bread making that everyone can make as it does not require any special skills to make.
Life is so fast and we are all engage with so many assignments so it's super easy idea to make these homemade dinners rolls that you can serve at dinner and breakfast as well. I personally like with butter stuffing at breakfast with cappuccino. It's enough to make my day!
What's Special In This Dinner Rolls?
These dinner rolls are light weight and so extremely soft and fluffy to eat. It will just melt in your mouth. The creamy flavor of these rolls will add value to every bite.
More, the making is easy and quick even beginners can make these rolls with perfection. No skills required to make the dough. Didn't use any electrical appliance. Just a spatula will work for it. The end result was absolutely divine and I believe it will be finished in no time. Give a try to this super fluffy and soft no knead dinner rolls and share with your friends and family.
Many people will be thinking about the difference of taste with knead and no knead dinner rolls. For me, it's hard to make a difference as it will give you same texture and smoothness that you get with knead dough. I personally adopt this method whenever I have to make quick bread rolls.
Before making this, I personally tried different recipes but I become fan of NYT no knead bread rolls and Martha Stewart so it's a inspired version that comes out so well.
10 Tips to Make Soft Rolls
- Always use warm water in yeast to rise. Avoid cold or hot water otherwise, yeast will not rise and sit on the bottom that will not make an influence on the dough.
- Don't skip the sugar at all! It basically adds to improve the rising or ferment process of yeast. It will not create a sugary taste.
- Properly use the number of ingredients to make the dough.
- Don't make the dough runny or thin. It should be semi-soft in texture.
- Always place the dough to rise in a warm place. I prefer microwave or oven to place (turned off).
- Don't open the rising dough again and again. Properly give it 2 hours to rise.
- When making dough balls make sure there should not be any crack.
- Preheat the oven before 10 minutes of baking.
- Add a cup of water to the oven can make the dough more soft and fluffy.
- Note the proper baking time. Overtime can make the rolls hard in texture.
How to Make It?
It's simple and easy to make! only require few ingredients from pantry to prepare these super soft rolls.
Ingredients:
Instant Yeast: Take the good quality instant yeast as it will help to rise the flour and make the bread roll soft and fluffy.
Sugar: It will work as a catalyst and accelerate the rising process of instant yeast so don't skip it.
Water: Used to dilute the yeast and sugar mixture.
Oil/butter: You can use oil or butter as per your preference. I used cooking oil but it can be replaced with butter in the same quantity.
Baking Powder (Optional): It's not compulsory to add baking powder but the addition will make the end result more smooth, soft, and fluffy.
Milk: Used to make the dough.
All Purpose Flour: Strain the flour before adding it to the dough.
Salt: Add salt according to taste. I used 1 teaspoon which was well adjusted.
Method:
In a bowl, add yeast, sugar, and water. Mix well! Leave it for 10 minutes to get a rise. Now add salt, oil, and milk. Also, add all-purpose flour. Mix all the ingredients using a spatula. Cover and keep in a warm place for 2 hours to get a rise. Now take it out. Punch the dough to release air and make small balls. Set the baking tray by lining foil/butter paper. Apply oil on the baking sheet. Place the dough ball with some distance. Apply milk layer on top of the balls. Again cover with a cotton cloth and leave it to rise for 10 minutes. Preheat the oven at 220C or 428F Bake the dinner rolls for about 10 to 15 minutes. Take it out.. and enjoy!
Recipe Video
It's been easy to watch the video recipe of no knead dinner rolls as it will help my lovely readers to follow the quick direction. My entire kitchen was full of baking aroma that compelled us to crave for it.
Happy cooking and happy eating!!
No Knead Dinner Rolls
Equipment
- Baking tray
Materials
- Yeast - 1 Tbsp
- Sugar - 2 Tsp
- Warm Water - ½ Cup
- Oil - 1 Tbsp
- Milk - ½ Cup
- Salt - 1 Tsp
- All Purpose Flour - 3 Cups
- Milk for Topping - 1 Tbsp
Instructions
- Preparation of Yeast
- Make a mixture of instant yeast, sugar and water in a deep bowl.
- Leave it for 10 minutes to rise. It will be frothy after that.
- Preparation of Dough
- Now add oil/butter, salt, milk and all purpose flour in same bowl of yeast mixture.
- Mix well using the spatula.
- Now cover the bowl and keep it in warm place to ferment the dough. It will almost take 2 hours to rise the dough.
- Dough will be ripe after 2 hours showing bubbles and stretchy.
- Punch the dough to release air and make a big ball.
- Now take out small portion from dough and give it a shape of small ball.
- Setting Up Baking Tray:
- Lineup the tray with foil or parchment paper.
- Brush the oil at bottom.
- Now place the dough balls with some distance.
- Proofing
- After setting the dough balls in baking tray.
- Cover it with cotton cloth and leave it for 30 minutes to rise.
- After that, the dough balls will be double tripple in size.
- Apply the milk topping using brush at the top of dough balls.
- Baking
- Preheat the oven before 10 minutes of baking.
- Maintain the temperature to 220°C or 428°F
- Place the baking tray in oven.
- Bake for 15 minutes.
- Take it out and serve!
Notes
- To properly ferment the yeast, it's always recommended to use warm water. Never use cold or hot water to dissolve yeast. It will not work out.
- Always choose the yeast wisely, like for normal bread making dry yeast is recommended due to long ferment time while the instant yeast will ruin the dough if you keep it for a long time.
- Sugar is the catalyst in yeast that improves the fermenting process rather than adding the sugary taste.
- Properly use the number of ingredients to make the dough. Increasing the quantity of yeast will not improve fermentation or make an impact on the rising dough. In fact, it will add yeast odor to the dough.
- Don't make the dough runny or thin. It should be semi-soft in texture.
- Always place the dough to rise in a warm place. I prefer microwave or oven to place (turned off).
- Don't open the rising dough again and again. Properly give it 2 hours to rise.
- When making dough balls make sure there should not be any crack.
- Preheat the oven before 10 minutes of baking.
- Add a cup of water to the oven can make the dough more soft and fluffy.
- Note the proper baking time. Overtime can make the rolls hard in texture.
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Quick and easy soft and fluffy no knead dinner rolls