Making these breadsticks is a terrific idea. They are simple to make and have terrific flavor. You will adore these if you enjoy Olive Garden® food.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 50 mins |
| Servings: | 16 |
| Yield: | 16 breadsticks |
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- ¼ cup warm water
- 4 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ¼ cups warm water
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Dissolve yeast and sugar in 1/4 cup warm water in a large bowl. Let stand until the yeast softens and begins to form a creamy foam, about 15 minutes. Add flour, 1 1/4 cup warm water, 2 tablespoons softened butter, and 1 tablespoon salt; knead until dough is well mixed and soft, about 3 minutes.
- Roll dough into a 2-foot log. Cut into 16 equal pieces, about 1 1/2 inches wide. Knead each piece and shape into a 6-inch breadstick. Arrange breadsticks on a baking sheet; let rise for about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
- Mix 3 tablespoons melted butter and garlic powder together in a bowl; brush onto breadsticks.
- Bake breadsticks in the preheated oven until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Immediately brush with remaining melted butter mixture; sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 161 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 27 g |
| Cholesterol | 10 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 523 mg |
| Sugars | 2 g |
| Fat | 4 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
It was perfectly explained and the breadsticks turned out amazing!!
Very bland and dry. probably because you skipped the first proving. Not good
I personally never cared for Olive Garden’s bread sticks, but the kids like them. I made this recipe to please them but with few changes to make it have little bit of nutrition. For that I used half all purpose and half whole wheat flour. Also added 1 tablespoon powdered milk ( makes bread softer) and about half teaspoon each of garlic powder, onion powder and Italian seasoning for more flavor. Because of the use of whole wheat flour, I let the dough rise twice. Once before shaping into sticks and once after. That also helps getting a fluffy bread. The last change was cutting the salt down to 2 teaspoons and that was plenty. With these changes we had some very tasty bread sticks that the entire family enjoyed with some soup for dinner tonight. FYI, try making the sticks pretty thin as they double in size after rising !
I made these to go with Pasta Faggioli several days ago. I like to follow recipes to the letter the first time out. But, I didn’t realize, until too late, that I was short on butter. So, I used olive oil in the dough and saved what butter I had for the topping. The breadsticks were delicious! My husband is already begging for me to make more. This time I will make the dough with butter (as in the recipe). But the olive oil did not impair the flavor.
I’ve made this recipe twice now. It was so fantastic the first time I had to make a second batch to see if it was a fluke. It wasn’t. Excellent, easy to follow recipe that makes a very delicious bread roll. The last batch I made 8 small rolls and 4 large rolls instead of 16 small ones. First time I made 16. Either way the recipe works beautifully. First time with garlic butter, second time with parmesan butter. Whatever you put on them, they taste like a great bread roll. Very happy to have this in my cooking repertoire.
i followed the directions as normal, but when the dough was mixed, it was still sticky to the touch. Instead of adding more flour to the mix while kneading, I incorporated Panko until the dough was ready to be divided. This made the breadsticks so delicious….I highly suggest the addition.
Makes a lot of breadsticks. They were good. I added garlic powder to the dough, and still could use more. But we LOVE garlic in this house.
My family loves these. I mince some fresh garlic and add it to the dough, we love garlic. When I make too many I just freeze them for later
willl make again but will put small amount of garlic powder in the ingredients.
Needed extra flour and butter made them a little bit smaller as I used them as “Witches Fingers” for a pot luck
Definitely a keeper! Although I added garlic powder on the dough itself and 1/4 teaspoon Italian seasoning for the topping for more flavor (which my hubby likes) but you can make this recipe as it is. Loved it. Will be making it again. Thank you Kimbers for sharing this recipe.
I made the recipe exactly as is. Very good!
Easy and tasted great! The family begged for more!
I thought it was an awfully lot of salt
Excellent and easy! They look exactly like the picture! I wasn’t sure that they were done because they were still light, but I’m glad I pulled them out ’cause they were perfect. I added garlic powder, onion powder, and Italian seasoning to the dough for extra flavor. I will definitely make these again.
I usually don’t like it when people change the recipe from what’s written then review it, but I’m doing just that here. The suggestions sounded like great improvements so I ran with it. I took the suggestion of another reviewer and used about 1.5 TBS garlic salt instead of regular salt in the dough recipe and I topped them with parmesan cheese. They still could’ve had more garlic/salt flavor but they were good. Overall 4 stars with the changes.
I use half of the salt when I make these and they are perfect
I made them according to the directions and they turned out really bland. not worth your time. you just can’t taste the garlic.
Great recepie. I changed up the butter toppings with more flavor. The bread came out perfect. Just make sure you don’t over cook them.
VERY easy to make. I put garlic salt instead of salt in the dough (liberally, at that) and when they were done I brushed with butter and more garlic salt then topped with parmesan cheese. The whole house approves wholeheartedly and, well, they didn’t last long. Also, I ran out of space so I made the last 3 into knots and they cooked just perfectly.
This recipe was amazing. It turned out really well and I was pleasently surprised.