Homemade Breadsticks
I have always been scared to bake bread, but it’s a fear I must face. Since I was making a big pot of spaghetti with meat sauce and an Italian salad for dinner, I decided to try baking homemade breadsticks. I found this easy homemade breadsticks recipe on Our Best Bites, which looked simple yet tasty. My kids were really excited to help make them, and they both loved watching the water, sugar, and yeast bubble. They did a great job twisting the bread dough into sticks, and once they were baked, they rubbed the sticks with butter and sprinkled the tops with garlic salt. We all, especially my kids, loved these homemade breadsticks, and they paired nicely with the rest of the meal.
Homemade Breadsticks
Breadsticks:
- 1½ cups warm water (105-115 degrees)
- 1 tbsp white sugar
- 1 tbsp yeast
- ½ tsp salt
- 3½ – 4½ cups of flour
Other:
- Butter
- Garlic salt, to taste
- Parmesan, finely grated, to taste
Serving:
How to Make Homemade Breadsticks:
Combine the water, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Let it stand for 10 minutes or until the yeast is bubbly.
Add salt to the mixture and stir.
Add 1½ cups of flour and mix well.
Gradually add more flour until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and barely sticks to your finger–usually 3-4 cups depending on your elevation and humidity.
Spray a metal or glass bowl with cooking spray, and place the ball of dough in it.
Cover with a tea towel and set aside to allow it to rise for 30-45 minutes.
Remove the dough from the bowl and place it on a floured surface.
Place a Silpat sheet on a baking pan and coat with cooking spray.
Gently roll the dough into a rectangle, then cut it into 20 strips with a pizza cutter.
Twist the dough or wrap it around your finger, then place each twisted breadstick onto the baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough, leaving room between each breadstick.
Cover the baking sheet with a tea towel and let the dough rise for another 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
When the bread is finished rising, bake for 9-10 minutes or until golden brown.
Rub the tops of the breadsticks with butter, then sprinkle with garlic salt or Parmesan cheese. Enjoy.
Equipment
Ingredients
Breadsticks:
- 1½ cups warm water 105-115 degrees
- 1 tbsp white sugar
- 1 tbsp yeast
- ½ tsp salt
- 3½ - 4½ cups of flour
Other:
- Butter
- Garlic salt to taste
- Parmesan finely grated, to taste
Serving:
Instructions
- Combine the water, sugar, and yeast in a large bowl. Let it stand for 10 minutes or until the yeast is bubbly.
- Add salt to the mixture and stir.
- Add 1½ cups of flour and mix well.
- Gradually add more flour until the dough starts to pull away from the sides of the bowl and barely sticks to your finger–usually 3-4 cups depending on your elevation and humidity.
- Spray a metal or glass bowl with cooking spray, and place the ball of dough in it.
- Remove the dough from the bowl and place it on a floured surface.
- Place a Silpat sheet on a baking pan and coat with cooking spray.
- Gently roll the dough into a rectangle, then cut it into 20 strips with a pizza cutter.
- Twist the dough or wrap it around your finger, then place each twisted breadstick onto the baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough, leaving room between each breadstick.
- Cover the baking sheet with a tea towel and let the dough rise for another 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
- When the bread is finished rising, bake for 9-10 minutes or until golden brown.
- Rub the tops of the breadsticks with butter, then sprinkle with garlic salt and Parmesan cheese to taste. Enjoy.
There's nothing better than a buttery soft breadstick. Yummy! That's the one thing I always eat up when ever I eat out at a restaurant.
You did such a nice job with your breadsticks! I've been wanting to try baking some more lately as well.
Wow. These sure beats the ones in Olive Garden! They look perfect!
Hi hun,
You have an amazing gift of making things seem so simple and inspiring confidence in others :)))…They look so yummy I am thinking of making them myself…
Love, light & Blessings,
Sue 🙂
These just look so good and soft. Oh and you made them so perfect looking too! Can't wait to try.
vickie
Very nice, you will find that yeast dough is very forgiving. I can tell there will be more yeast dough recipes in the future. Thanks.
I am coming to your place for some of these!
They look wonderful…wish I had some right now!
They look so good that I might make these today with or without pasta haha. Wow!
Your homemade breadsticks look fantastic! A great addition to a meal!
my mom used to make breadsticks for us when we were kids, but now that i think about it, i don't believe they were from scratch. shame on the mamster, but kudos to you! 🙂
Kudos! It feels good overcoming a fear doesn't it? I've recently done the same. Yeast, dough, bread here we come! 🙂
~ingrid
I'm so excited you did it!!! congrats!! Isn't baking bread great! I love the way it makes the house smell 🙂
These look really wonderful. Pam. You have a houseful of great twisters. I'm sure they enjoyed the fruits of their labor.
Freshly baked breadsticks just sound so good!
1 Tablespoon of yeast? That's about how much I use in a batch of pizza dough for 16 pizzas!
I love baking bread!
Despite what we think, yeast bread is not delicate. And, you know what you're feeding the kids! If you want them to rise faster (kids can get impatient), simply double the yeast and leave all the other ingredients the same. It won't change the flavor at all.
I would KILL one of these right about now. Or 4.
Oh my. These would have been perfect with my Prego spaghetti last night!!!
wow!! these freshly baked bread sticks look perfect. I love them so much….will surely make them !! Lovely.
Yum! Fresh baked breadsticks are always good!
Oh my, I am with you, I have been a bit scared too!!!! These look amazing Pam!!!
Those remind me of the ones at Olive Garden, which I adore! Great job!
Awww, this does seem like the perfect project to do with the kiddos 🙂 They look delicious! I'm still working on my fear of making bread. I haven't advanced past making pizza dough yet!
These look so yummy and flaky fabulous!! I've been scared to make my own dough…. you make it all look so easy!
Thanks for sharing this peach white and blueberry cake recipe… Will try this!!
You did a good job! They look great!
Way to "stick it" to your fear of baking!
Woo hoo another breadsticker. We are currently have a dough resting on the counter that will be turned in breadsticks hopefully shortly.
Nicely done!!
I like how simple this recipe is, and the bread sticks look so wonderfully fluffy and crispy.
Thanks for a great breadstick recipe! I substituted half whole wheat flour in this recipe and they turned out fabulous! I even posted a picture of them on my blog eatchiclifestyle.com!
This is a very good tip especially to those fresh to the blogosphere.
Brief but very precise info… Appreciate your sharing this one.
A must read post!
On va vous dire que cе n’est guère faux !!