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!  

Ingredients(for 12 sticks)

Water - lukewarm - 1 cup

Instant yeast - 1 and 1/4 tsp

Sugar - 2 tbsp

Flour - 3 and 1/2 cups

Salt - 1-2 tsp 

Oil - 3 tbsp

As needed

Butter 

Garlic salt 

Method

In a mixing bowl add flour + sugar + flour + salt and yeast and mix them together. Add oil and lukewarm water and bring it to slightly sticky dough consistency. Add oil and knead it till it’s not so sticky. Proof it for 1 and 1/2 hr. Punch the dough and divide into 12 equal parts and roll them in the shape of bread stick. Keep them separate on a greased baking tray. Let it rest again for 1 hr. Bake at 425F for 10 min. 

Mix garlic salt and butter. Brush bread sticks with this mixture. 

Enjoy.  

Recipe Source - “https://www.cookingclassy.com/olive-garden-breadsticks-copycat-recipe/”