Einkorn Dinner Rolls – Relatively Quick & Super Easy

Tis the season for “going the extra mile” for family dinners! I have always wanted to have an easy and relatively quick recipe for dinner rolls….. and finally came up with one! These dinner rolls are perfect for serving alongside your favorite main courses, slathered with butter or saturated with sopped-up gravy. They are photogenic and pillowy-soft. The best part is the fact that they are made with Einkorn flour. You can have these Einkorn Dinner Rolls on the table in about 1-1 1/2 hours….most of that time being attributed to rising. They are super simple and worth at try.

As mentioned in a previous post, Einkorn flour (especially made from grain grown in Italy), is super healthy, packed with trace minerals and high in protein content. It lacks the glyphosate and other chemicals that are so prevalent in crops grown in North America. Einkorn has been a game changer for our family – especially for my son who deals with facial tics. If you are looking into baking with Einkorn, here is a wonderful recipe for Quick & Easy Einkorn Bread https://northwestfrench.com/quick-easy-no-knead-einkorn-bread/. If you need to purchase some Einkorn, Jovial (from Italy) is my favorite. Here is a quick link: https://amzn.to/4j3OGjy

This recipe for Einkorn Dinner Rolls is written for 16 rolls – each about 3″ in diameter. You can make the rolls larger by reducing the number of rolls you make with the recipe. If you divide it into 8 rolls, instead of the 16, they work great for sandwich or burger buns – Simply add 5-10 minutes onto the cooking time.

Einkorn Dinner Rolls

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Quick & easy recipe for light, fluffy yeasted rolls

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Prep Time:15 minutes mins

Course: Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Einkorn Dinner Rolls, Einkorn Rolls, Yeasted Einkorn Rolls

Servings: 16

Ingredients

• 1 Package Instant Yeast Make sure to use "Instant". I like Red Star's "Platinum"
• 3/4 Cup Whole Milk, Warmed
• 2 Tbsp Honey
• 2 Tbsp Butter, Melted
• 3/4 tsp Salt
• 1 Egg Warmed While you are heating milk, place egg in a small bowl of hot tap water
• 2¾ Cup Einkorn Flour, Divided
• Melted Butter for Brushing

Instructions

• Heat Milk to 110℉. Turn oven on to "proof". If you don't have a "proofing" setting on your oven, simply turn on the oven light, which will warm the oven to about 80℉ – perfect for rising yeasted bread.
• In a large bowl, add Warmed Milk. Dissolve the Yeast and Honey in the Milk. Whisk to combine. Wait until the yeast is active, then continue. You will know if yeast is active by many bubbles coming to the top of milk/honey mixture.
  
• Add Warmed Egg, Melted Butter, and Salt. Whisk to combine.
  
• Add 1 Cup of Einkorn Flour. Whisk until well combined and smooth. Place in warmed oven for 20 minutes.
  
• Remove batter from oven and add the rest (1¾ cup) Einkorn Flour. Stir to combine.
  
• Turn the dough out onto well floured parchment paper. Kneed for 3 minutes. Add extra flour as necessary. The dough will become soft and elastic.
  
• Roll dough out into a 5" x 12" rectangle. Cutting into 16 even pieces, will yield (16) 3" round rolls. If you would like larger rolls, simply divide into larger pieces, which will yield less rolls, but they will be larger.
  
• Shape dough pieces into round balls and place on parchment lined baking sheet.
  
• Loosely cover with plastic wrap, and pop in your "proofing" oven for anywhere between 25-45 minutes, or until your rolls have raised and about doubled in size.
• Once rolls have risen, remove from oven. Preheat oven to 425℉.
• Brush rolls with Melted Butter and bake for 5 minutes.
  
• After 5 minutes, turn oven down to 325℉ and bake for 10 minutes longer.
• Remove from oven and again, brush with melted butter.
  
• Serve, and Enjoy!