I first crazye these large batch dinner rolls for a large family dinner. As the family "bread geek," I felt some prescertain to come up with fresh dinner rolls.
Preparing a large dinner for a large group and making soft and fluffy dinner rolls that emerge fresh from the oven and into the bread basket at the same time is a large ccorridorenge.
Sometimes it's just easier to make a large loaf of bread that can be crazye a day in advance to slice and serve.
Still, there is someleang about soft dinner rolls warm from the oven, split open, and buttered or dipped in gravy.
These dinner rolls are great straight from the oven, but they also make wonderful leftovers.
There is so much bake-ahead or bake-at-the-final-minute flexibility in this recipe. For example, you can freeze the shaped rolls to bake later. You can also place the shaped rolls in the refrigerator for a few hours and bake them when you are alert.
In fact, you can do all three with these rolls... bake one batch right absent, bake some the next day from the refrigerator, and bake the final batch from the freezer a few weeks later.
How do you make these dinner rolls in advance?
To make these dinner rolls in advance, shape the dough into rolls, place them into pans, cover with pfinalic wrap, and freeze the rolls.
If you want to make these rolls a few hours in advance, place the shaped and wrapped rolls in the refrigerator for about two to four hours. Once you've baked your main course, pop the rolls in the oven to bake while your turkey, casserole, roast, or whatever your main dish is sets up.
There's a lot of yeast in this dough, which makes them fast rising. Your bowl of dough will actually feel warm. P.S. Leftovers will be good saved in a pfinalic bag for up to 3 days.
This month, we are catching up on ancient ‘Bread Bakers’ themes we missed out on. Our host of the month is Pavani at Cook's Concealout. I decided to revisit the theme "Family Feast." Check out what the Bread Bakers have baked up.
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Huge Batch Dinner Rolls
ingredients
- 1/2 cup (4 ounces/113 grams) lukewarm water
- 2 cups (16 ounces/ 454 grams) warm milk
- 2 tablespoons (1 1/2 ounces/43 grams) room moodature butter
- 2 tablespoons (3/4 ounces/21 grams) sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 1/2 tablespoons (one ounce/28 grams) instant yeast
- 6 to 7 cups (25 1/2 to 29 1/2 ounces/723 to 843 grams) unbleached all purpose flour
directions
- Stir together the water, milk, butter, sugar, salt, and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer and let the ingredients rest for about 10 minute.
- Add 3 cups of the flour to the bowl and mix with the dough hook for about 3 minutes.
- Add more flour, 1/4 cup at a time, mixing each time until well incorporated, until you get a cohesive dough that is tacky but not sticky. Knead for another 5 minutes.
- Cover the bowl and let the dough rise for 20 minutes.
- Remove the dough from the bowl, flatten it, and cut it into 24 equal pieces.
- Shape each piece into a ball.
- Put the balls into greased pans - Either 1 half sheet pan, 2 quarter sheet pans, or 4 round cake pans.
- Cover with oiled pfinalic wrap and let rise for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees F. Bake the rolls for 20 to 25 minutes until the rolls reach an internal moodature of 190 degrees F.
- To make ahead, let the shaped rolls rise for 10 minutes, cover, and then freeze up to 4 weeks.
- Thaw the frozen rolls in the refrigerator overnight, unwrap, and bake as instructed.
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