Homemade buttermilk dinner rolls are delicious, flavorful, and easy to make. They are perfect to make when you want to use up buttermilk. They can be served with meals and also great for making sliders.
Ingredients
The buttermilk rolls requires only a few basic ingredients, easily available in the pantry. Bread flour, sugar, salt, yeast, and oil are what you will need along with buttermilk.
The main ingredient is buttermilk. You can use store-bought one or make it at home. Buttermilk is the by-product of making cultured butter. If you do make cultured butter or cultured ghee at home, you can use the buttermilk obtained from that process.
Instant yeast or bread machine yeast will work well for this recipe.
Instructions
Once you have all the ingredients, it is very easy to make this buttermilk rolls recipe. The dough can be made in the bread machine or in the stand mixer.
Put the wet and dry ingredients in the bread machine pan based on the manufacturer's instructions. I have added buttermilk, oil, sugar, salt, all-purpose flour, and instant yeast. Start the dough cycle.
To make dough in a stand mixer, add all the ingredients and knead on speed 2 for about 12 minutes. Check out this details post to make dough in stand mixer.
Step 1: Make dough in bread machine or stand mixer.
Step 2: Divide and shape the dough into small balls.
Divide the dough into 15 equal parts, about 51-52 grams each. Shape them into smooth balls by tucking all the edges together to the bottom side. Place them in a baking tray lined with parchment paper and spacing them out an inch apart.
Cover the tray with a cling wrap or a kitchen towel and let it rise in a warm place for about 45-60 minutes or until it doubles in volume. Bake them in a preheated oven at 350°F for about 20 minutes.
Step 3: Let the dough balls rise.
Step 4: Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 350°F.
Substitutions
This bread machine buttermilk rolls recipe is very easy to make and uses only 6 ingredients. There are a few substitutions that can work well in case you do not have all the ingredients.
- All-purpose flour - instead of bread flour, you can use all-purpose flour.
- Yeast - Instant yeast or bread machine yeast works fine in the bread machine. You can read more on which yeast to use in a bread machine.
- Butter - Unsalted butter can be used instead of oil.
Variations
You can easily adapt this recipe to your liking and make it to your family's liking.
- Herbs - add a teaspoon of Italian herbs for more flavor.
- Seeds - add about 2-3 tablespoon of seeds like sesame, pumpkin, chia, and sunflower seeds.
Equipment
I have tried this buttermilk bread dough in the Zojirushi bread maker using the dough cycle as well as in the KitchenAid stand mixer.
The rolls are baked in a convection oven. I have used a 13-inch by 11-inch deep casserole baking tray to make 15 rolls. A larger baking tray (15-inch by 11-inch) can be used to make about 20 smaller size rolls.
Storage
Buttermilk rolls can be stored at room temperature for 3-4 days. It is best to keep it in a bread box or in an air-tight container.
If you want to store the rolls for a longer time, then store it in the freezer. When you need them, just take out the required number of rolls and warm them up in the air fryer or the oven.
Top tip
Measuring the flour with a measuring cup can give inconsistent results as the cup can be tightly packed while scooping the flour. So it is best to weigh the flour for a consistent result.
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📖 Recipe
Buttermilk Dinner Rolls
Equipment
- Bread Machine (or Stand Mixer)
- Convection Oven
- Baking tray (13 inch by 9 inch)
Ingredients
Wet ingredients
- 1 ⅓ cup Buttermilk (warm, microwave 20 seconds)
- 4 tablespoon Oil
Dry ingredients
- 2 tablespoon Organic cane sugar
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 3 ½ cup Bread flour (420 grams or all-purpose flour)
- 2 ¼ teaspoon Instant yeast (7 grams or bread machine yeast)
Instructions
Option 1: Make dough in bread machine
- Place the wet and dry ingredients in the order required by your bread machine.1 ⅓ cup Buttermilk, 4 tablespoon Oil, 2 tablespoon Organic cane sugar, 1 teaspoon Salt, 3 ½ cup Bread flour , 2 ¼ teaspoon Instant yeast
- Close the lid and select the "dough" cycle.
- Once the cycle completes, remove the dough from the pan on a lightly floured surface.
Option 2: Make dough in stand mixer
- Place the wet and dry ingredients into the stand mixer bowl.1 ⅓ cup Buttermilk, 4 tablespoon Oil, 2 tablespoon Organic cane sugar, 1 teaspoon Salt, 3 ½ cup Bread flour , 2 ¼ teaspoon Instant yeast
- Attach the dough hook and knead on setting 2 for about 12 minutes until the dough is well kneaded and attaches to the hook.
- Make a smooth dough ball, apply some oil to the bottom of the bowl and place the dough ball in it for rising.
- Cover the bowl and keep it in a warm place for about 60 minutes until the dough rises and becomes double in volume.
- Remove the dough from the bowl on a lightly floured surface.
Shape dough to make buns
- Divide the dough into 15 equal parts of about 51 grams each.
- Shape them into smooth balls and tuck all the edges to the bottom side to make it smooth from the top.
- Place them in a 13-inch by 9-inch baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- Cover with a food wrap or a kitchen towel so that it does not dry up.
- Allow it to rise for about 45-60 minutes until it has doubled in volume.
Bake in the oven
- Preheat the oven to 350°F.
- Remove the food wrap gently and then place the baking tray in the oven.
- Bake for about 20 minutes on 350°F or until the crust is golden brown in color.
- Take the baking tray out of the oven.
- Apply some butter on top of the buns using a basting brush.
Notes
- Sifting and weighing the flour helps make the bread soft. Sifting is optional, however, weighing the flour gives consistent results.
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