Garlic Bread Sticks

I eat a lot of pasta. I could easily live on pasta. I enjoy pasta so much that I've even had pasta for breakfast many times. Besides the combinations of noodles and sauces, the bread that goes with the pasta is very important. Different sauces and noodles go better with different sorts of bread, although any freshly baked bread will be just fine.

I love the bread sticks from Olive Garden, so I wanted to give one of the many recipes online which claim to be "just like the real thing!" a try. I got this recipe from The Country Cook. They are delicious and relatively easy to make.


Garlic Bread Sticks
1 1/2 cups very warm water
1 package active dry yeast 

4 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

2 tablespoons unsalted butter, sotened

2 tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon salt

Garlic Butter topping:

1/2 stick unsalted butter 

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon table salt

Proof the yeast in 1/4 cup of water with a bit of sugar until nice and foamy.

Place the sugar, salt, and butter in a bowl. My softened butter melted a bit, but that is okay!

Add the remaining 1 1/4 cup of warm water to the bowl of sugar, salt, and butter. Mix in one cup of flour.

Add the yeast and mix. Slowly add the remaining flour until a slightly sticky dough is formed.

Knead the dough until smooth.

Break the dough up into several pieces and roll these pieces into strips. The size and number of strips will depend on how many bread sticks you want and how big you want them.

Cover with a non-fuzzy towel and let rise until doubled in size.

While the dough is finishing it's rise time, preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.

Bake the bread stick dough for 6 minutes. 

While the bread sticks are baking, melt the 1/2 stick of butter and mix it with the garlic powder and salt.

Remove the bread sticks from the oven and brush with the garlicy butter. Return bread sticks to the oven for an additional 6 minutes.


Remove the bread sticks from the oven and brush them with the garlicy butter yet again. 


Let cool for a few minutes and enjoy!