Garlic Breadsticks

 Continuing with another Italian favorite of our family - garlic bread sticks. My daughter wanted me to recreate olive garden menu for her birthday, and I had made eggplant parmigiana, breadsticks, minestrone soup and pasta. The link for each can be found here - 

• Minestrone soup
• Eggplant parmigiana
• Pasta 

Coming to the recipe - Breadsticks are nothing but bread in different shape… may be little less fluffy. Prepare the dough, after proofing, shape them in the form of breadsticks. Once they are done baking, brush them with garlic butter. That’s it! Make sure to brush butter generously though, I didn’t as seen in the picture below. 

I followed this recipe online while looking for Olive Garden breadsticks and was very happy with the results(link given below).

Enjoy!  

Eggplant Parmigiana

 Last year, my daughter asked me to recreate olive garden’s eggplant parmigiana for her birthday. 

The recipe is not hard to guess, but I still googled to see if there is anything fancy. I found one in olive garden’s own website(I think) and it was just as easy as I thought it would be. I replaced their egg dip, with maida dip. And it turned out the same. But frying eggplant took forever! Then I found this recipe(link given below) for airfryer. Since I don’t own an airfryer, I did half frying on stove top and remaining in the oven. My friend Ashwini helped me by giving me tips on how to get the airfried effect from the conventional oven. 

If you own an airfryer, I think making this would be extremely easy. I am still debating if I should just buy one. I see all drool worthy recipes online, but don’t know how much it'll help with my style of cooking. Don’t want to use up my counter space unnecessarily. Anyways, for those who own one, this is the method mentioned in the blog - After the patties are coated well and ready to be fried, line them on the airfryer tray without crowding them and bake at 390 F for 10 min. Turn them mid point. Once done, put the toppings and bake them again until cheese melts. For more details you can follow the link below. 

Enjoy!