Delicious and easy Sourdough Dinner Rolls made with active starter, touch of honey , flour and salt. Excellent with a bowl of soup .
If you are looking for a perfect sourdough dinner rolls recipe then here it is. This is only naturally leavened dough without any addition of yeast. It takes time to rise but tastes delicious with only a hint of sourdough. Best part is that you do not need to work hard, just mix and leave it at room temperature and next day bake. These Easy sourdough dinner rolls are excellent for your Thanksgiving dinner table or with your favorite soup.
How to make Soft Sourdough Dinner Rolls
If you are looking for a chewy dinner rolls go for bread flour otherwise all-purpose flour is the best choice. Whole wheat dinner rolls are good, but they can be dense.
Instead of water try to use whole milk. Milk adds extra creaminess and is richer and has a velvety texture. Milk makes a softer crust even in crusty sourdough bread due to its sugar and butterfat content. Milk also improves the keeping quality of breads and contributes nutrients.
Honey is used as sweetener in this dinner rolls. Usually 0-10% for the sugar is used in Sourdough bread. Here I have used around 8%. More than that will disturb the balance of organisms in the sourdough culture.
Eggs are known to add richer flavor, build structure, as fat in egg yolks helps shorten the gluten strands in bread dough, increasing the gluten's elasticity. This results in a more tender crumb and softer crust in the finished bread. Additionally, the coagulating property of eggs, due to their proteins helps create a more tender and even texture and helps in the Caramelization of bread.
Butter softened room temperature butter is used in the recipe which creates a more even distribution of fat throughout the dough yielding a tender final product.
Salt works to tighten the gluten strands that are formed, which makes them stronger. By strengthening these gluten strands, salt enables the dough to hold carbon dioxide more efficiently. You need to use around 1.2 % of salt.
Leaven: You need to use young leaven to make less sour sourdough dinner rolls and they are the peak of activity.
Timeline to make this Easy sourdough dinner rolls
You can either bake everything on a single day starting from making dough, then shape and bake if you made leaven night before.
Second option will be you can make leaven and mix the dough leave it room temperature for overnight and next morning shape and bake.
Third option will be making leaven, mix the dough and keep at room temperature for 4 hours and then refrigerate overnight and next morning shape and bake.
While baking this sourdough dinner rolls, you do not need to brush them with egg wash. But when it comes out of the oven it will be nice if you brush with butter that will keep the bread moist.
These sourdough dinner rolls are great on the bake so if you are planning to make for Thanksgiving, prepare day before and bake it in the morning or make them ahead and freeze them. Later just warm it in the oven.
Here is other Sourodough Dinner rolls recipes you want to take a look at it.
Sourdough Cornmeal dinner rolls
Sourdough Holiday Dinner Roll Wreath
These dinner rolls taste great with simple butter, if you have honey butter in hand it will more delicious.
If you made this recipe please tag me @nidhinikhil and Zesty South Indian Kitchen.
Easy Sourdough Dinner Rolls
Ingredients
Leaven
- 25 g Active Sourdough starter
- 100 g bread flour
- 100 g water
Dough
- 400 g All purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 40 g Honey
- 206 g Leaven
- 130 g milk I used full fat milk
- 6 g salt
- 30 g butter
Instructions
Levaen
- Mix bread flour, active starter and water and mix well. Set aside at room temperature for 5 hours.
Dough
- In a kitchen aid stand mixer add all the ingredients except the butter knead with dough hook to form a cohesive, sticky mass, 2 to 3 minutes on low speed of a stand mixer.
- Gradually add butter and incorporate about 1 minute on low speed. Once all
- the butter is incorporated, turn the mixer up one speed and knead the dough until it is smooth and supple though still somewhat soft and tacky, about 2 to 3 minutes.
- Cover the dough and let it rest in a warm (75°F) place for 8 to 12 hours. To develop strength in the dough, stretch and fold it in the bowl three to four times during the rest. This will increase the elasticity of the dough.
- Shape and Bake
- Next morning divide 849g the dough into 15 pieces of 56.6 g each. Shape it into small round ball and place it in a parchment lined baking pan.
- Set aside for proof of about 2 hours or until it becomes puffy.
- Bake it in 375°F for 25- 30 minutes or until golden in color.
- Enjoy, with bowl of soup, or as dinner rolls in Thanksgiving dinner table.
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Nutrition
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Audrey says
These were so good! My family loved them!
Elizabeth says
My family loved this! Such a yummy and easy recipe, our new favorite!
Ve says
I'm always looking for new sour dough recipes, and I gotta say; the whole milk really elevated these!
DK says
If you're obsessed with sourdough like me but looking for an easy recipe, try this one! Because I did and loved it! These Sourdough Dinner rolls are so soft and tasty!
Nicole Kendrick says
These were so nice and fluffy. I love the slight sweetness from the honey and the tang of the sourdough.
ramona says
I love sourdough and i cant wait to make this, thank you for sharing this recipe!
Mitch says
They look so soft and tender. Do you have any recommendations for egg substitutes? I really want to make this recipe!
Swathi says
you can add tangzhong to the dough that makes soft
Melinda says
These rolls are a great way to enjoy fresh-baked sourdough alongside soups and stews. The rolls are so much easier to prepare than baking a large loaf of bread, and leftovers stored easily!
Giangi Townsend says
I love dinner rolls and your recipe here is just amazing. On my list to be made again for the holidays. I am sure everyone will love them as much as we did.
Audrey says
I love sourdough rolls! And I love how your recipe calls for pantry staple ingredients, so it makes it easier and more accessible to make them.
Gloria says
Homemade dinner rolls are the best. Perfect for holiday tables. Great with soup, chili and stew too.
Ice Cream n Sticky Fingers says
I love dinner rolls but I haven’t tried making my own. I’ll have to give this sourdough roll recipe a try. They sound delicious.
Natalie says
These rolls look amazing. SO fluffy and delicious. I never used a sourdough starter to make rolls before. But you just convinced me to give it a try. Yum!
Cathy Mini says
This is something I wanted to try and this is it. Freshly bake and really delicious fresh and hot from the oven.
Catalina says
These dinner rolls look amazing! I would like to try it!
Lynndee says
Nothing is more satisfying than freshly baked bread. They are so delicious and they smell good too.
Crizel Ibarra says
I love to try this Sourdough Dinner....very excited if my families want this for dinner... We are rice lover alternative this.
Capri says
These rolls are so perfect! Omg! I could eat these everyday!
Robyn H. says
These look so good and sound easy to make! Another recipe I'm adding to my try list!
Nikki Wayne says
This sounds amazing. I love dinner rolls. Thanks for sharing.
Mama Maggie's Kitchen says
This dish looks SO deliciously good. I wish I could eat that right now!
Chef Dennis says
I am soooo excited to try making these Sourdough Dinner Rolls ! My wife will surely love this
Bri says
LOVE sourdough! These look so easy to make to! Can't wait to try them!
Ben says
I love how simple these are. Sourdough is such a great flavor, and you don't need a lot of fancy ingredients to make delicious bread with it.
Audrey says
I love sourdough but I haven't thought to make sourdough rolls before!
Emily Flint says
I can't wait to make these sourdough rolls, they look so good!
Sue says
I was looking for a good dinner roll recipe, so glad I found this one!