Olive Garden Breadsticks.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups warm water
- 1 packet active dry yeast
- 4 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- 2 Tbsp. unsalted butter melted
- 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 1 Tbsp. salt
Instructions
- In a large bowl, dissolve sugar and yeast in warm water and allow to sit for 10 minutes, covered. Mixture should be frothy.
- In separate bowl, combine flour and salt. Add to yeast mixture. Add melted butter. Mix with paddle attachment of stand mixer or wooden spoon until fully combined.
- Knead dough for a few minutes just until dough is smooth. Do not overknead!
- Grease a cookie sheet. Pull off pieces of dough and roll out into strips. Cover the dough and let sit in a warm place for 45 minutes to an hour.
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F and once heated, pop in the bread sticks.
- In microwave, combine the following: 1 stick unsalted butter (or 1/2 cup margarine), 2 teaspoons garlic powder and 1 teaspoons salt.
- After bread sticks have cooked for 6 or 7 minutes, brush the bread sticks with half the butter mixture. Then continue to bake. Bake for 5-8 more minutes.
- Immediately upon removal from the oven brush the other half of the butter on the sticks.Allow to cool for a few minutes before eating.
These were actually very easy to make. If you do try this recipe, my dough was smooth like it states in the directions, yet a little sticky. They did still rise later and I might try to make them less sticky to see if they rise just a little bit better and would be easier to roll. But, oh do these taste just like Olive Garden's! YUM. These would make great pizza sticks for kids too. I think I might get some mozzarella and pepperoni's to melt on them and then you could dip in marinara. I got about 12 breadsticks from this recipe. Heidi gobbled one up pretty fast. Oh and I used just a little bit of the butter mix to brush on the breadsticks while they baked. I got a little too much garlic on some of them. Oh well. Next time I will try to make mine also a little nicer. The pic is mine this time and they look silly. But who cares, right. They will get eaten fast anyway. :)
1 comment:
Sounds good!
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