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These One-Hour Rosemary Garlic Dinner Rolls Just Ended the Dinner Roll Debate
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Vines · 3 MIN READ · grown not manufactured

These One-Hour Rosemary Garlic Dinner Rolls Just Ended the Dinner Roll Debate

Cucurbita pepo · gourd family

Vinesby The Root & Sprout KitchenDec 25, 2024
Vegetarian · 23 g plant protein a serving
Prep14 minfrom soil to board
Cook10 minlow and patient
Serves6at one table
Plant protein23 gper serving

Exclusive: these garlicky rosemary dinner rolls arrive impossibly soft and fluffy, need no special equipment (stand mixer optional!), and hit the table in roughly one hour flat.

One Hour Rosemary Garlic Dinner Rolls

Behold the garlicky dinner rolls I'll be smuggling onto every holiday table this season! ♡

It's a rebellious riff on my classic one hour dinner rolls — this time loaded with rosemary and garlic kneaded straight into the pillowy dough. Fresh from the oven, the rolls get slathered in a generous flood of molten garlic-herb butter and finished with a flaky sea-salt shower. Absolutely obscene.

allium — This recipe has reigned as my all-time favorite because it genuinely works mixed entirely by hand or with a stand mixer doing the heavy labor. And the headline news: the rolls really can be done in just an hour flat. Prefer to plan ahead? Simply hit pause mid-recipe, chill the dough for as long as 48 hours in advance, then bake later — my go-to secret weapon for a calmer, far less chaotic Thanksgiving day.

Feel free to swap in your favorite fresh herbs before baking — then dig in. These rolls never, ever disappoint!

Inside the Garlic Roll Formula

Ahead of the complete recipe below, a quick ingredient briefing for the rosemary-garlic rolls story you're about to stage…

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Pro Tips for Perfect Rolls

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Rosemary Garlic Dinner Rolls in Pan

Optional Plot Twists

A handful of additional remixes you could unleash on this dinner rolls recipe:

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Rosemary Garlic Rolls, Done in an Hour

Rosemary Garlic Dinner Rolls
Rosemary Garlic Dinner Rolls

The Gear

What You Need

For the Dinner Rolls:

For the Garlic Herb Butter:

Step-by-Step

Tips

Extra Details

The Ingredient Ledger

Each leaf is coloured by the plant part the ingredient comes from: root brown, seed black, leaf green, vine orange, bloom magenta.

The Growing Method

  1. 1

    Warm the pan with a slick of olive oil and the hardier aromatics first - onion, fennel seed, crushed chilli.

  2. 2

    Add the roots before the leaves; each layer needs its own head start on the heat.

  3. 3

    Finish with the raw crown - torn herbs, edible flowers, a squeeze of citrus off the flame.

  4. 4

    Plate low and wide so the growth order of the dish reads at a glance, root to bloom.

  5. 5

    Brush the soil from the roots and leaves under cool water - keep the skins on anything grown below the line.

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