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Our classic white yeast bread recipe made using a storebought gluten free flour blend or a homemade blend with rice flour, turned into sweet, fluffy rolls. An old timey favorite and a gluten free version of our classic blue ribbon yeast rolls.
Mom’s Favorite
You wanna know what makes a recipe a good one? Sure, good quality ingredients, simple enough to make and unforgettable flavor makes a great recipe. But maybe I should say, you wanna know HOW to know if a recipe is a good one?
If it’s moms favorite!
And this one hits the nail on the head. My mom’s absolute favorite recipe we have swapped to gluten free so far are these sweet, fluffy, white yeast rolls.
Now, as we do here on the farm, we just took recipes we love and converted them. So first came the blue ribbon yeast bread recipe. Then that was converted to a gluten free version of the recipe. Then we took that bread, sweetened it a bit and shaped it into rolls to make these unforgettable, can’t-believe-there’s-no-gluten yeast rolls. And wah-lah, mom’s favorite so far.
Great for sliders and sandwiches or as a side smothered in butter or honey. Nothing, and we mean nothing, beats an old timey yeast roll.
These have some options, though. There’s been a lot of testing here with storebought flour blends, we have come up with our own flour blend and now we are testing gluten free bread making by using grains only (gluten free grains that is). But for now, I am sharing the recipe with a storebought flour and our homemade flour blend. Any of the ingredients for the homemade flour blend can be purchased, but we choose to mill our own rice flour for cost and ingredient quality purposes.
Let’s get to baking!
Gluten Free Yeast Rolls Recipe
Our classic white yeast bread recipe made using a storebought gluten free flour blend or a homemade blend with rice flour, turned into sweet, fluffy rolls. An old timey favorite and a gluten free version of our classic blue ribbon yeast rolls.
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup melted butter or liquid oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, milk or water
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons yeast
- 1 tablespoon psyllium husk powder
- 3 cups gluten free flour blend, divided (we only recommend Cup4Cup brand or our homemade rice blend in the card below!)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
Instructions
- In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment or a large mixing bowl with electric beaters or a sturdy dough whisk, combine 1/4 cup liquid oil or melted butter, 2 eggs, 1 1/2 cups buttermilk, milk or water, 1/4 cups sugar, 1 tablespoon psyllium husk powder, and 1 1/2 tablespoons of active or instant yeast. Both will work but instant will rise faster. Mix to combine.
- Add in 2 1/2 cups of a gluten free flour blend. I highly recommend a homemade over a purchasaed blend. The ratios above give you 3 cups, only add 2 1/2 into the dough and save the additional 1/2 cup for handling the dough later! The homemade blend is in the recipe card below.
- Last, add in 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 1 tablespoon baking powder.
- Mix until the "dough" which looks more like a batter or buttercream texture, significantly lightens in color and gets very airy and whipped, 5-10 minutes.
- Scrape the sides of the bowl so that the dough is all in a messy ball in the center and cover the bowl. Chill in the fridge for as long as possible. This helps the grains to soak to get rid of grittiness as well as make the dough easier to handle.
- Grease a 9x13 pan well.
- Remove the dough from the fridge and scrape onto a well floured surface. Oil or flour your hands and knead the dough until smooth. We aren't kneading to develop gluten for obvious reasons, but it will greatly make the dough smoother and more like a traditional bread dough.
- Shape into 24 evenly sized rolls and place in your greased pan almost touching, but not quite.
- Allow the dough to rise until almost doubled in size.
- Bake at 350 for about an hour or until the dough reaches 210-215 degrees.
- As soon as you remove the rolls, top with some butter (optional).
Homemade Gluten Free Flour Blend
A homemade version of a gluten free flour blend made with grain of choice to best resemble all purpose flour.
Ingredients
- 2 cups fine white rice, oat or flour of choice (milled at home or purchased)
- 1 cup potato starch
- 1 cup tapioca starch
- 1 tablespoon xanthan gum
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients in a bowl with a whisk or shake in a large jar.
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