Bread Sticks
These chewy, garlic butter bread sticks make a perfect side to your homemade pizza's, pasta, salads, you name it. Made with simple ingredients your whole family will love.
Equipment
- 8x8 baking dish
Ingredients
For the dough
- 600 g all purpose flour organic, unbleached
- 500 g water
- 1/2 tsp yeast
- 2 1/2 tsp sea salt
Garlic butter
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 2-3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tsp parsley dried
- 1/4 cup parmesan or mozzarella freshly grated
Instructions
Make the dough
- Add flour, salt, and yeast to a medium sized mixing bowl. Stir to combine.
- Add water to the flour mixture and stir until fully incorporated and sticky dough forms.
- Cover and let rise 8 hours. See notes for make ahead option.
- Generously flour a clean work surface and turn out the dough onto it. Divide the dough in half. Save one half for later or use it for a pizza.*
- Shape dough into a ball and gently press down the center with your fist to form a disc. Cover and let rest for 30 minutes if possible.
- Grease an 8x8" baking dish with butter, set aside.
Make the garlic butter
- In a small bowl mix together softened butter, mozzarella*, minced garlic and parsley.
Assemble the bread sticks
- Uncover the dough and pick it by the thick edges and rotate it in your hands, allowing the dough to hang down, using gravity to stretch the dough. Once the dough is about 6-8 inches in diameter, place the dough into your greased baking dish. Press the dough to fit your baking dish.
- Spread the garlic butter mixture over the dough evenly.
Bake the breadsticks
- Preheat oven to 450F. This gives the dough some time to rest before baking.
- Bake for twenty minutes or until golden brown.
- Cut into eight sticks and serve warm with your favorite marinara sauce.
Notes
*To make the dough ahead of time, make the dough through step 2, then cover and place in the fridge until you are ready to bake it. It's good in the fridge for a week or so. When you want to bake the dough, allow it to warm up to room temperature before shaping in your baking dish.
*You can omit the mozzarella from the garlic butter mixture and instead sprinkle it on over the dough after you've added the butter.
*Substitute the mozzarella for any cheese that you would like. Cheddar and parmesan make great additions to breadsticks.
* This is a wet dough, to prevent excess sticking, wet your hands before handling the dough.
*The other half of the dough can be thrown back in the fridge or frozen in an airtight bag. You can use that dough to create a yummy pizza for dinner to go with these breadsticks or an indulgent (healthier) smore's pizza for dessert.