Breadsticks
Breadsticks recipe in the pizza category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon shortening
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon durum semolina, or corn meal
- 1 cup unbleached all purpose flour
- 2 cups unbleached bread flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon yeast
- Additional semolina or corn meal
- Flavorings for bread sticks
Recipe method:
- Place water, milk, sugar, salt, shortening and olive oil in bowl and dissolve sugar and salt.
- Stir in yeast, semolina or corn meal, all purpose flour and knead to form a soft, but not too sticky dough, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Allow to rest, covered with a damp towel about 45 minutes.
- Deflate dough very gently before using and allow it to rest a further 15 minutes before using.
- Preheat oven to 450 F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and sprinkle with corn meal or semolina.
- Roll out dough on a floured board, about 1/4 inch thick.
- Cut with a pastry wheel or anyway you can, into long strips, 10 to 12 inches long.
- Gently lift bread sticks onto baking sheet.
- Brush with oil or butter.
- Sprinkle with cheese (or coarse salt, poppy seeds, sesame seeds, herbs, caraway seeds, etc.).
- Bake 5 to 8 minutes until evenly browned. They will crisp as they cool.
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