Easiest Breadsticks Recipe
You have no excuses not to make these soft, buttery, warm, foolproof breadsticks. Ready in an hour. Everyone has an hour. It’ll be the best use of one hour all week, I promise. At a restaurant, if you’re the type of person who can devour a basket of soft breadsticks before they bring your food, and by the time you do get your food, you’ve eaten so many breadsticks that you don’t even want it, this is the recipe for you. Then again, maybe not. Make it at your own risk. Warm and fresh from the oven, these accidentally vegan breadsticks are ridiculously good and cost probably less than a buck to make. Two cups of flour, a little butter or buttery spread, and yeast are the only real costs. If you’ve never worked with yeast or have a yeast phobia, you can get over all that now. You simply combine the ingredients into a mixing bowl and let your stand mixer do the work, kneading for about 7 minutes. Don’t have a stand mixer? Knead by hand on your counter. Think of it as exercise in advance of all the white, buttery carbs you’re about to ingest. They’re every bit as good as restaurant breadsticks (or mall pretzels) and you’ll want more than a couple. You’ve been warned.
Ingredients for Homemade Breadsticks
For this quick breadstick recipe, you’ll need the following ingredients:
All-purpose flour Water Instant yeast Olive oil Granulated sugar Salt Unsalted butter (or vegan butter) Cinnamon-sugar (only if you want to make cinnamon-sugar breadsticks)
Can Whole Wheat Flour Be Used?
If you want to use whole wheat flour, read this post, don’t exceed more than 50% by volume of whole wheat flour, and if you try it, let me know how it goes, because I haven’t tried.
How to Make Homemade Breadsticks
I hate doing step-by-step photos but I want you to see how easy it is. I really hope you make breadsticks now! Here’s an overview of how the quick, buttery breadsticks are made:
How to Help Dough Rise in a Cold House
A trick to creating a warm environment in the dead of winter or in a cold house is to power you oven on to 400F for 1 minute. Then power your oven off. In that 1 minute, your oven probably got to about 90F degrees inside, the temp on a nice, warm summer day, which is how yeast thrive. Quickly slide the baking sheet into the oven (again, your oven should be off) and let the dough rise for about 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, you’ll need to preheat your oven so you can bake. Don’t preheat with the tray inside. Take the tray out, put it on the stovetop, and preheat the oven (for real this time) to 350F. In total, the dough will have had about 30 minutes to rise. In just 30 minutes, you can see how much it rose!
Dipping Sauces for Breadsticks
When it comes times to chow down on these quick and easy breadsticks, you have a few dipping sauce options:
Pizza Sauce Pizza Dip Baked Spinach Artichoke Dip Velveeta Queso Dip Buffalo Chicken Dip
Tips for Making Light and Fluffy Breadsticks
Yeast:
I used Red Star Platinum Yeast and it’s the only yeast I bake with because it’s the best and it never lets me down. If a novice bread-maker, consider this yeast your insurance against goofs because it’s very forgiving.
Since it’s an instant yeast, you don’t have to proof it (let it stand with warm liquids for 10 minutes or until foamy). You simply add it with the other ingredients.
If you are an experienced bread maker, you’re going to love the extra puff and oven-spring you get with the Platinum. Your baked goods will rise higher and faster than you’re used to. It blows the pants off other yeasts I’ve tried!
Flour:
I used King Arthur All-Purpose because I wanted the breadsticks to stay very soft. Bread Flour will lend a chewier, thicker, denser result, more bagel-like, but may be used if you wish.
More Quick & Easy Bread Recipes:
1-Hour Homemade Cinnamon Rolls with Cream Cheese Frosting — It’s possible to make soft, light, fluffy cinnamon rolls from scratch in 1 hour! These are yeast cinnamon rolls topped with a homemade cream cheese frosting. Tried this recipe? Leave a review! Consider leaving a 5 star rating if you’ve made and loved one of my recipes! 1-Hour Soft Pretzels — Just like the mall but homemade and ready in 1 hour! 1-Hour Whole Wheat Pizza Dough — Stop buying pizza dough. Make your own in under 1 hour! No-Knead Make Ahead Dinner Rolls – An amazingly easy dinner roll recipe! Whole Wheat No-Knead Dinner Rolls — Working with wheat flour and yeast is usually the kiss of death but these rolls are light, fluffy, soft and you’d never guess made exclusively with whole wheat flour 30 Minute Honey Whole Wheat Skillet Bread (no-knead, no yeast) – You’ll never believe that bread this light is made without yeast or kneading, and in 30 minutes
