Everyone loves a dinner roll, but making them from scratch can be time-consuming. There’s the dough-making, the proofing, and all that time waiting. If you have time on your hands, it’s great but if you’re looking for a last-minute option, you need something quick and easy that is guaranteed to please.
The answer sounds simple: buy dinner rolls from the supermarket. But dinner rolls from the bakery are nothing like homemade, and there’s the chance they’ll go dry and rock hard before dinner is even served.
How do you make bread rolls from the supermarket taste better?
Fortunately, there’s a hack for everything! Here are a few tricks you can use to turn store-bought bread rolls into warm, wholesome rolls that taste like they’ve just come straight out of Nan’s oven. Let’s start with dinner rolls.
3 steps to making supermarket dinner rolls taste like homemade
Step 1: Warm the rolls
The most important thing to remember is that warm rolls will almost always taste better than cold rolls. You want your bread rolls to taste like Nan made it which means they need to be warm.
Step 2: Use a brush to coat the rolls in butter
If you want store-bought dinner rolls to taste like Nan made them, then you need to use her favourite ingredient: butter. Brush the dinner rolls with the best quality butter you have, and you’ll soon have a bakery aroma wafting through the kitchen. Thank us later.
Step 3: Garnish
This final step is optional, but it’s what makes the dinner rolls seem like they came out of Gran’s oven! You can garnish – or finish – the rolls with your favourite flavours. Try sprinkling herbs over the warmed rolls, or cracking some salt over them. One of our favourite ways to uplift a store-bought dinner roll is to drizzle some olive oil over them for instant Mediterranean flair!
There you have it – dinner rolls that taste like homemade, even though they come from the store!
Sweet bread roll hacks
This hack also works for those with a sweet tooth. Follow steps 1 and 2, then decorate them with the icing you use to make finger buns.
You could also drizzle them with cinnamon scroll icing or passionfruit curd for a decadent treat!
How to makebread rolls from scratch
For those who’d like to make breadrolls from scratch, try these recipes:
