Bellicose Bumpkin

Had some friends over last weekend and tried these breadsticks. The recipe is a conglomeration of various recipes I saw on the Internet – simplified. I served them as an appetizer – the kids(and adults) went beserk over these and demanded a second batch after dinner.

Breadstick dough ingredients

• 3/4 cup water – lukewarm
• 3-4 oz honey
• 3 tbsp butter
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tsp yeast

The dough is very like a pizza dough.

Topping ingredients

• 3-4 oz olive oil
• 5-6 cloves crushed garlic
• Parmesan cheese – regular spaghetti type
• course ground sea salt

Directions

1. Add ingredients in order to bread machine – use dough cycle. My sunbeam takes 90 minutes.
2. Remove and shape into desired sized bread sticks – say 3/4 inches in diameter and 6-8 inches long – whatever you want. If the dough is too sticky to work with, coat your hands with flour.
3. Place on baking sheet greased with olive oil and covered with corn meal to prevent sticking.
4. Crush 4-5 cloves garlic into 3-4 ounces of olive oil – brush over bread sticks.
5. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and coarse sea salt
6. Cook in preheated oven at 350 on center rack until done – around 15 minutes depending on the size.

These were super easy to make and require very little prep time. Yes it takes 90 minutes to make the dough but only 2 minutes to prepare it. I would expect that you could make the dough quickly by mixing the honey into warm water and adding the yeast for 15 minutes until it starts to foam – then add butter, salt, and flour and run the machine just long enough to mix it.

After the dough is made, it takes like 5 minutes to shape the sticks and another 5 to crush the garlic, brush, sprinkle, etc. Very easy.