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    Buttery Buns | Pull-Apart Butter Dinner Rolls

    Published: Apr 2, 2024 · Modified: Dec 24, 2024 by Genevieve · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

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    Buttery Buns Pull-apart butter dinner rolls made with rosemary butter and chunky sea salt are an easy recipe for celebrating Christmas and Thanksgiving! You'll impress your guests with these golden butter dinner rolls that taste straight like they are from a local bakery, but are homemade and take less than thirty minutes to prepare.

    buttery buns made with sea salt and fresh rosemary on a marble backdrop with little cutting boards this …
    rosemary sea salt dinner rolls

    Rosemary sea salt dinner rolls are wonderful year-round, but are especially delicious in celebrating Spring holidays! With Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner, this easy dinner roll recipe will be the hit at your celebration! Want even more Spring recipes? Check out my Easy Soda Bread Recipe and my Mini Lemon Bundt Cakes recipe as well as my Asparagus Puff Pastry and Strawberry Turnovers and don't forget about Easter Hot Chocolate Peeps Marshmallow Recipe

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    • 🥖 Ingredients For Rosemary Dinner Rolls With Yeast Buttery Buns
    • Ingredients For Easy Rosemary Dinner Rolls
    • Equipment For Butterbread Lovers
    • 🥖 Instructions For Easy Dinner Rolls Recipe
    • Do I need a Bread Machine for this recipe?
    • How To Store Delicious Butter Buns
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    🥖 Ingredients For Rosemary Dinner Rolls With Yeast Buttery Buns

    Ingredients for buttery buns dinner rolls water, sugar, sea salt, whole milk, yeast, fresh rosemary and flour for buttery buns
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    What you'll need for butter rolls buttery buns recipes

    Ingredients For Easy Rosemary Dinner Rolls

    • All Purpose Flour (I highly suggest King Arthur Bread Flour)
    • Sugar
    • Rapid Rise Yeast
    • Salt
    • Whole Milk
    • Water
    • Butter (Use grass-fed butter to make these buttery buns rich)
    • Melted Butter
    • Fresh Rosemary
    • Fresh Garlic

    See full recipe card below for quantities for butter buns recipe

    Equipment For Butterbread Lovers

    • Candy Thermometer
    • Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer (highly suggested, but not required)

    🥖 Instructions For Easy Dinner Rolls Recipe

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    Step 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. In a large mixing bowl or a Kitchen Aid mixing bowl, combine ¾ cup flour, sugar, dry yeast, and salt in and stir until blended. 

    Combine ¾ cup flour, sugar, dry yeast, and salt in a large mixing bowl and stir until blended
    First, combine the dry ingredients

    Step 2: Combine milk, water, and butter in a small pan. Using a candy thermometer, heat the milk, water, and butter in the pan to 120 to 130 degrees. Add it to the flour mixture.

    Combine milk, water, and butter in a small pan. Using a thermometer, heat the milk, water, and butter in the pan to 120 to 130-degrees. Add it to the flour mixture.
    Using a bowl of stand mixer like a Kitchen aid mixer with a paddle attachment will make this bread recipe go smoothly.

    Step 3: In an electric mixing bowl, beat the dough for buttery buns for 2 minutes at medium speed, making sure to scrap the bowl occasionally. Add ¼-cup four and beat the dough for 2 minutes at high speed. Stir in just enough of the remaining flour (1 to ¼-cups) so that the dough will form into a ball.

     In an electric mixing bowl, beat the dough for 2 minutes at medium speed, making sure to scrap the bowl occasionally. Add ¼-cup four and beat the dough for 2 minutes at high speed. Stir in just enough of the remaining flour (1 to ¼-cups) so that the dough will form into a ball.
    grandma's rosemary dinner rolls

    Step 4: Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic and springs back when lightly pressed with 2-fingers. You should knead the dough for 6-8 minutes.

    Do I need a Bread Machine for this recipe?

    Absolutely not! The beauty of this easy bread recipe is it's made using your hands and perhaps your biceps 😉

    Knead the buttery buns dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic and springs back when lightly pressed with 2-fingers. You should knead the dough for 6-8 minutes. Cover with a towel and let rest for 10-minutes.
    knead the dough into a ball, this can be very therapeutic!
    Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic and springs back when lightly pressed with 2-fingers for buttery buns
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    Step 5: Cover with a towel and let rest for 10 minutes.

    Cover with a towel and let rest for 10 minutes. buttery buns
    You're halfway there to a delicious homemade bread recipe!

    Step 6: Divide dough and cut the dough into 12 equal pieces; shape into balls using your hands. Try to make all of the balls the same shape. Place the balls in a greased 8-inch square baking pan. Cover with a towel; let rise in a warm place until doubled in size. This will take about 30-minutes.

    buttery buns dough on a floured marble surface let rise for thirty minutes under a towel for easy buttery buns
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    Step 7: While the dough is resting, make the Rosemary butter. Melt one cup butter and the fresh bunch of Rosemary sprigs in a pan on the stove. Once the butter is melted, set the Rosemary butter aside.

    A bowl of fresh rosemary butter with fresh rosemary sprigs on a marble backdrop for buttery buns
    Delicious homemade Rosemary butter made with fresh rosemary sprigs from my garden!

    Step 8: Transfer dough to a baking pan or baking sheet. Bake the rolls in oven at 375-degrees for 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown. Remove from pan by running a knife around the edges and invert onto a wire rack.

    freshly baked buttery buns in a cake pan with a yeast packet and rosemary butter and fresh rosemary
    You could totally make butter buns burger with these buttery rolls!

    Step 9: Brush the rolls with the melted Rosemary butter and top with flaky sea-salt. Serve warm. You can also brush the rolls with egg wash before you pop the into the oven.

    Brush the rolls with the melted Rosemary butter and top with sea-salt. Serve warm. buttery buns
    Fresh dinner rolls buttery buns straight out of the oven, but as if they were sent from an Italian family bakery!

    How To Store Delicious Butter Buns

    Fresh, home bread rolls are always best stored at room temperature as storing them in the fridge can cause the rolls to dry out. This is made from scratch homemade bread so it's best to consume within 5 days for optimal freshness.

    a tray of delicious rosemary butter buns with flaky sea salt on a marbled backdrop with fresh rosemary sprigs

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    Buttery Buns | Pull-Apart Butter Dinner Rolls

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    Buttery Buns | Pull-Apart Butter Dinner Rolls

    Genevieve Jerome
    Buttery Buns Pull-apart butter dinner rolls made with rosemary butter and chunky sea salt are an easy recipe for celebrating Easter and Mother's Day! You'll impress your guests with these golden butter dinner rolls that taste straight like they are from a local bakery, but are homemade and take less than thirty minutes to prepare.
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 1 hour hr
    Total Time 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins
    Course bread recipes
    Cuisine American
    Servings 6 people
    Calories 344 kcal

    Equipment

    • 1 Stand Mixer

    Ingredients
      

    • 2-¼ cups All Purpose Flour
    • 2 tablespoon sugar
    • 2 teaspoon Dry Yeast
    • ½ teaspoon salt
    • ½ cup whole milk
    • ¼ cup water
    • 2 tablespoon butter
    • 1 tablespoon flaky sea salt

    Homemade Rosemary Butter

    • 1 bunch fresh rosemary
    • 1 cup melted butter
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    Instructions
     

    • Preheat oven to 375-degrees
    • In a large mixing bowl or a Kitchen Aid mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, dry yeast, and salt in and stir until blended.
    • Combine milk, water, and butter in a small pan. Using a candy thermometer, heat the milk, water, and butter in the pan to 120 to 130 degrees. Add it to the flour mixture.
    • In an electric mixing bowl, beat the dough for buttery buns for 2 minutes at medium speed, making sure to scrap the bowl occasionally. Add ¼-cup four and beat the dough for 2 minutes at high speed. Stir in just enough of the remaining flour (1 to ¼-cups) so that the dough will form into a ball.
    • Knead the dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic and springs back when lightly pressed with 2-fingers. You should knead the dough for 6-8 minutes.
    • Cover with a towel and let rest for 10 minutes.
    • Divide dough and cut the dough into 12 equal pieces; shape into balls using your hands. Try to make all of the balls the same shape. Place the balls in a greased 8-inch square baking pan. Cover with a towel; let rise in a warm place until doubled in size. This will take about 30-minutes.
    • While the dough is resting, make the Rosemary butter. Melt one cup butter and the fresh bunch of Rosemary sprigs in a pan on the stove. Once the butter is melted, set the Rosemary butter aside.
    • Transfer dough to a baking pan or baking sheet. Bake the rolls in oven at 375-degrees for 20-25 minutes until they are golden brown. Remove from pan by running a knife around the edges and invert onto a wire rack.
    • Brush the rolls with the melted Rosemary butter and top with flaky sea-salt. Serve warm. You can also brush the rolls with egg wash before you pop the into the oven. 

    Homemade Rosemary Butter

    • Melt one cup butter and the fresh bunch of Rosemary sprigs in a pan on the stove. Once the butter is melted, set the Rosemary butter aside.

    Notes

    How To Store Delicious Butter Buns

    Fresh, home bread rolls are always best stored at room temperature as storing them in the fridge can cause the rolls to dry out. This is made from scratch homemade bread so it's best to consume within 5 days for optimal freshness.

    Do I need a Bread Machine for this recipe?

    Absolutely not! The beauty of this easy bread recipe is it's made using your hands and perhaps your biceps 😉
    Butter basting: Rolls can be brushed with butter before, during, or after baking. Butter basting keeps the rolls golden and fresh! 
     

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1rollCalories: 344kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 3gFat: 32gSaturated Fat: 20gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 84mgSodium: 1614mgPotassium: 72mgFiber: 1gSugar: 5gVitamin A: 1006IUVitamin C: 0.1mgCalcium: 45mgIron: 1mg
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    1. nancy

      November 04, 2024 at 1:23 am

      5 stars
      these buttery dinner buns was perfect to go with my clam chowder. I mean i could just eat them alone warmed up !

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      • Genevieve

        November 07, 2024 at 11:31 pm

        They are so good right? Thanks, Nancy!

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