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Soft Dinner Rolls “No Egg”

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Recipe notes for Soft Dinner Rolls “Without Egg”

• I’ve never noticed a difference when making dinner rolls with vs. without eggs, but as even crappy eggs are currently $5/dozen, it’s definitely a “no egg” time of year.
  • Yes, I know eggs are eleventy billion dollars Canadian.
  • Yes, I know you’ll make this with plant based “butter” and plant based “milk” because you’re vegan. We all know you’re vegan.
  • Yes, you can grind up your own wheat berries to make flour for the dinner rolls recipe, you little suburban homesteader who just wants us to know she owns a fancy food mill.
  • Do you see why I don’t take comments on the blog?
• I use all-purpose flour to make the rolls.
• If you use active dry yeast, this recipe will take a long time. If you make the rolls with instant yeast, you can get them into the oven within one hour. I live in Phoenix, so I can let the dough rise in my hot little house super fast for 10 months out of the year. When it’s very cold; i.e., under 70 degrees, I microwave a mug of water, then put the covered dough in the microwave with the mug of hot water and close the door. The dough rises to doubled in less than 30 minutes.
• I use avocado oil for the oil, because olive oil leaves a noticeable flavor in the rolls. You could also just use 6 Tbsp of butter and skip the oil but the rolls turn out softer with oil than without oil, and the butter is for flavor.
• I use round 9″ cake pans for the rolls, and arrange 12, 1.5 oz rolls in each pan. I put 3 dough balls in a triangle in the middle of the pan (not touching), and arrange the other 9 dough balls around the edge of the pan. I’m a nerd, so I make sure all of the dough balls are equidistant from each other, and from the side of the pan.
• You can also fit this batch of rolls into a 10″ x 15″ Pyrex dish in a 4×6 array, but I think the rolls turn out better when baked in a thin metal pan than in glass.
• Yes, you can make your rolls larger or smaller. For larger rolls, you’ll bake a bit longer. For smaller rolls, you’ll bake for a bit shorter time. Use your oven light and common sense.
• I slather these dinner rolls with freshly minced garlic, garlic powder, salt, and butter. You can just use plain butter but the garlic version is better:

GARLIC BUTTER FOR AMAZING DINNER ROLLS:

• • 1/4 cup raw garlic, minced (if you use jarred garlic, don’t bother—just use extra garlic powder. Also, stop using jarred garlic. Also, look up “Asians biting ends off garlic for USA consumption”). Just buy Christopher Ranch garlic. It’s grown in California, nobody bites the garlic, and it isn’t grown in sewers. Winco sells a pound of Christopher Ranch garlic (about 13 garlic heads) for $2.98, even in 2025.
  • 4 Tbsp butter, softened.
  • 1 Tbsp garlic powder.
  • 1 tsp salt.
  • Mix and use a basting brush to slather the rolls with the garlic butter after baking for 10 minutes, and after removing from the oven.
• For amazing herb dinner rolls, knead 1/4 cup each minced fresh parsley and minced green onion (green tops only, not the white part) into the dough. Definitely top with the garlic butter.
  • If you only have dried parsley and dried chives, heat the dry herbs with the liquid mixture to soften them or you might get crunchy bits in your rolls. Also, dried herbs might make your rolls green, depending on how aggressively you knead the dough. Fresh herbs work better.
• Here come the Amazon links:
  • 2 pack of Wilton 9″ cake pans
  • Enough Pam cooking spray to make 1,492 batches of rolls
  • If you hate Costco like I hate Costco, but like Costco things, you can buy the Kirkland cling wrap on Amazon. A two-years’ supply works out to be much cheaper than the sale price at normal grocery stores for Saran Wrap without the neat little slider thingy.
  • Chosen avocado oil is the only avocado oil I trust. The Sam’s Club Olivari olive oil is for sure mixed with other oils; it gets super sticky when you’re trying to fry or even saute. Buy real Chosen avocado oil on Amazon here if you don’t have a Smart & Final near you (Smart & Final sells Chosen avocado oil for $25.49 for 67.6 ounce. That’s $0.38 per ounce.)
  • Instant yeast on Amazon.

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Make soft dinner rolls without eggs in less than 2 hours.