Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls

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These eggless dinner rolls are light, fluffy and easy to make! With a hint of sweetness from honey this healthier whole wheat alternative is a delicious addition to any meal!

Fresh whole wheat dinner rolls ready to eat. — Delicious whole wheat rolls!

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Ingredient Notes
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Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips
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Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls Recipe

Why Choose This Recipe

Light, fluffy, soft dinner rolls that are egg free!
Easy as traditional Dinner Rolls!
Sugar is lessened with the use of honey!
Healthier alternative to White Breads
If you're wondering how to make these fluffy dinner rolls into a loaf of homemade bread instead then check our my Whole Wheat Bread recipe!

Ingredient Notes

White Flour - all purpose flour, never self rising and not bread flour.
Whole Wheat Flour - Any brand is fine.
Butter - unsalted butter or salted butter work just fine.
Honey - use regular honey not creamed honey.
Yeast - active dry yeast is the same as instant yeast or rapid rise yeast.

Ingredient for Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls — Everything you need to make these soft whole wheat dinner rolls.

Step by Step Instructions

While I prefer to use my stand mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment, you can make this homemade roll recipe by hand as well.
Add sugar, yeast and warm water to a mixing bowl or to the bowl of a stand mixer, and let stand about 5 minutes to get foamy.
Add the salt to the yeast mixture.

Sugar, yeast, and warm water added to a mixing bowl. — Activate yeast with sugar and warm water!

Add room temperature butter, honey, and the wheat flour to the bowl.
Add 1 ½ Cups of white flour.
Mix well, at a low speed until a soft dough forms.

Butter, honey and flour added to the mixing bowl. — Add butter, honey, white flour and whole-wheat flour.

You may or may not need more white flour at this point.
Picture 9 and 10 show what my dough looked like when there was enough flour. Note that the sides of the bowl were not cleaned and the dough is still on the sticky side instead of a smooth ball.
Knead the dough at medium speed for 3 minutes.
Cover bowl with a kitchen towel or plastic wrap and let the dough rise in a warm place until doubled.
Dump risen dough out onto a lightly floured surface and divide it into 15 equal pieces.
Shape the pieces into balls.
Place dough balls in a 9x13 pan that's been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray.
Cover to let rise until doubled while you preheat your oven.
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Dough kneaded, left to raise, dumped out divided into pieces and shaped. — This is more of a sticky dough at first. Let rise, divide dough and shape into balls to bake.

Bake rolls at 350 degrees for 15-18 minutes.
The tops should be golden brown.
Run a butter cube over the tops of the hot rolls. This is optional. That little bit of melted butter on the tops give them a buttery flavor!

Butter cube being run over the top of the hot rolls. — Hot and fluffy whole wheat dinner rolls!

Recipe FAQs and Expert Tips

Can I use all whole wheat flour?

No, because you will end up with dense, heavy, rock-like rolls. You have to have the white flour to have the right amount of gluten so your rolls will rise.

Can I freeze these rolls?

Yes, just make sure they are completely cool before wrapping them tightly with saran wrap or putting them in a ziploc bag and freezing. Thaw them at room temperature.

Can these homemade rolls be made in a bread machine?

Honestly, I have no idea. I've used a bread machine once in my life and hated the result so much I never used one again.

What do these dinner rolls go well with?

My personal favorite dishes to serve rolls of any kind with is soups. If you haven't checked out my Chicken Cordon Bleu Soup you should! Broccoli Cheese Soup is another family favorite as is my Potato Bacon Soup!

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