One Hour Garlic Herb Soft Dinner Rolls Recipe | Little Spice Jar (2024)

Garlic HerbSoft Dinner Rolls delivered in one hour! I brush these with garlic herb butter when they’re hot out of the oven and they’re perfect to serve with all your holiday meals and yet easy enough for weeknights! So soft and fluffy!

Bring on the fluffy and soft dinner rolls!

These golden brown little pillows of goodness are all I want between Thanksgiving and Christmas. And then I look forward to them around Easter time too. And you cannot forget days when you’re snowed in (Ha! It happens in Texas too now!) Basically, there’s no right or wrong time to eat a soft dinner roll is all I’m here to say.

Garlic herb dinner rolls are absolutely perfect for Thanksgiving dinner for two reasons. 1.) They take just an hour to make. 2.) Because they’re a little more ‘fancy’ than your basic dinner roll recipe. And if you’re ever gonna be fancy with your food, you know it’s usually during the holidays!

I’m sure there are all sorts of names for these soft dinner rolls. Amish rolls or potato rolls are just a couple of them. But the fact of the matter is that my homemade dinner rolls almost always contain one ingredient that gives them that tenderness for days. Have you guessed it yet? It’s instant potato flakes. Don’t worry, you can’t even tell that they’re there! They add the most luxuriously sweet, creamy taste and make anything you add them toinstantlybetter. Sorry, I couldn’t resist!

This recipe is a new spin on an old favorite. We’re taking mybasic one hour dinner rollsrecipe that I love serving with honey butter and amping it up in the best way possible — with herbs and garlic.

I know making bread or homemade dinner rolls isn’t always easy to do. In fact, it can be quite daunting if you haven’t done it before. This recipe is simple and easy to make, even if you’re a beginner at bread baking.

Just make sure you read through the instructions before starting. That way you know exactly what comes next.

Ingredients for garlic herb soft dinner rolls:

• Butter:this is the main fat used in the recipe. Fats like butter aid in giving bread or dinner rolls tenderness, structure, and richness and flavor. The melted butter is used in two different ways here. First, we’ll use some of it in the preparation for the dough. Then, we’ll use the rest to brush on the rolls when they’re hot from the oven.
• Whole Milk:the warm milk helps quicken the process for these rolls.
• Water:we’ll heat the water to luke warm with the milk and some of the butter to make the wet ingredients for the dough.
• All-Purpose Flour:I don’t suggest using bread flour for this recipe. Bread flour is wonderful hen you’re trying to make a crusty bread loaf. But for a soft dinner rolls or hot cross buns or cinnamon rolls, all purpose flour does work best.
• Instant Potato Flakes:This is my secret little rockstar ingredients for the softest dinner rolls!
• Rapid Rise Yeast:make sure to use rapid rise so that you don’t have to wait for the yeast to activate.
• Granulated Sugar:is food for the yeast and gives the bread a slightly sweet flavor.
• Salt:adds that touch of sodium that we need in baked goods.
• Garlic Powder:helps amp up the garlic flavor in the bread portion of the recipe. We’ll top it with more garlic butter at the end so the flavor is pronounced.
• Herbs:I like to use rosemary and fish parsley. We’ll brush the garlicherb rolls with the butter when they’re hot out of the oven. You can hear the butter sizzling and sealing all the garlicky coolness into the rolls and it pure heaven!
• Egg:we’ll add this in with the other wet ingredients to add structure to the dough.
• Fresh Garlic:for the garlicherb butter you’ll need a couple of tablespoons of butter and a couple of cloves of garlic. We’ll minced the garlic for a more pronounced garlic flavor. The key is to allow the butter to melt with the garlic in a saucepan so that the butter is layered with flavor and the garlic doesn’t burn.

Making the best soft dinner rolls:

1. Heat it up.In a microwave-safe measure cup, combine 4 tablespoons butter with the milk and water and zap it in the microwave until it’s warm to the touch. If at any point, it gets too hot, allow the it to cool.
2. Get out the stand mixer.In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook attachment, combine the flour, potato flakes, yeast, salt, sugar, garlic powder, rosemary, and parsley and just stir to mix.
3. Make the dough.with the machine on the stir setting, slowly stream in the warm milkmixture, then add the egg. Let the machine run on low speed until the dough comes together. You’ll notice and the machine is kneading the dough, it starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl. If the dough doesn’t do this, add a bit more flour until a ball forms.
4. Let it rest.Remove the dough from the hook. Cover the bowl of the stand mixer or grab a clean, lightly greased bowl, and add the dough ball. Cover with plastic wrap. Allow the dough to sit at room temperature. You want to also preheat your oven to 180ºF at this point and spray a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray.
5. Shape and rest.Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. With a flour rolling pin, roll the dough out. Divide the dough into 12 to 16 equal pieces. If you want to be super accurate, you can weigh the dough, I just eyeball it. Fold the seams in and roll into a smooth ball. Place the dough balls in the baking pan with the seam side down. Continue to roll the dough the same way on a floured work surface.
6. Let the rise.Using a pastry brush, brush the dough balls with roughly a teaspoon of water on each roll to keep them from drying out in the oven. Turn the oven off and place the rolls inside the one to rise.
7. Bake until golden.Take the dish out of the oven and preheat the oven to 375ºF. Once the oven is hot, bake the soft dinner rolls until they’re golden brown and spring back to the touch. You’ll want to make the garlic butter sauce during the last 5 minutes of baking time.
8. Make and brush with sauce.In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the garlic and the remaining butter. When the butter melts and you can smell the garlic, add the remaining parsley to the saucepan along with some salt. Stir to combine. Brush the soft dinner rolls with the garlic butter when they’re hot out of the oven. I love serving this with gravy, a pear salad, you favorite side dish. and a delicious turkey dinner!

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originally published on Dec 2, 2016 (last updated Nov 9, 2023)

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