It often happens that the bread at home is over, and nobody wants to run after him to the store. Or simply there is no such possibility. What to do in this case? Bread sticks can be bailed out quickly enough. Many housewives know about this and often use this option. Moreover, the sticks are great not only with hot soup or tea, but also with ordinary milk, and with many other dishes. Today we will be preparing this delicious food - magic wand, in addition, with various additives and seasonings.
Cheese and Herb Chopsticks Recipe
You can use any cheese you can find at the right time in your refrigerator. Essential products: warm water - 150 ml, granulated sugar - one teaspoon, high-speed dry yeast - one teaspoon, flour - 250 grams, salt - half a teaspoon, hard cheese - 200 grams, cumin and rosemary - half a teaspoon, one chicken egg, olive oil - two tablespoons, poppy seeds or sesame seeds. Cooking bread sticks with cheese. Making a dough. Pour warm water into the cup, pour sugar in it , mix, add yeast, cover - and let it stand for about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut fresh cumin and rosemary, grate the cheese. Sift flour into a large bowl, put salt, herbs and cheese, mix. Now pour in the yeast, mix again. Add the egg and then knead the dough. To make it easier to knead, pour in olive oil, two tablespoons. Turn on the oven to heat up to 200 degrees. After 15 minutes, we begin to form bread sticks. To do this, we pluck off part of the dough and roll it on the kitchen surface with our hands. Next, pour some sesame seeds on the table and roll them into the dough. At the end of the process, put the sticks on a baking sheet covered with parchment and send to the oven, where we bake for 10-15 minutes.
Recipe for grissini - italian breadsticks
Such products are available in every restaurant and cafe in Italy. To prepare them, you need the following products. For the test: flour - 600 grams, salt - two teaspoons, dry instant yeast - two teaspoons, water - 350 ml, olive oil - three tablespoons. For additives: coarse salt, dried herbs, cheese, poppy seeds, sesame seeds. Cooking Grissini bread sticks. Sift flour, mix with salt and yeast. Add the oil to warm water and gradually pour into the flour, constantly kneading the dough, which should turn out to be soft and elastic. We cover it and remove it to a warm place for 60 minutes.
Then we divide into four parts, each of which is rolled into a thin layer, greased with oil and sprinkled with grated cheese, sesame seeds, Provencal dry herbs. Squeeze a little powder into the dough with a rolling pin. Then we cut it into strips of two-centimeter thickness. We twist them into spirals and put them on a baking sheet with parchment, which we then send to the oven for half an hour, heated to 200 degrees. Cool the finished dish and store in a bag or a closed container.
Sesame Sticks Recipe
This dish may well replace the usual bread in some situations, for example, during the design of a buffet or buffet. Ingredients: fresh yeast - 50 grams, premium flour - one kilogram, granulated sugar - two tablespoons, salt - one teaspoon, one hundred grams of vegetable oil and sesame seed. Now consider a lean recipe on how to make sesame bread sticks. Pour warm water into a deep bowl, exactly 500 ml, add yeast and granulated sugar, stir and leave it alone for 20 minutes.
After which we add salt, we mix again. Then add the whole kilogram of flour and begin to knead the dough. At the end of the process, pour the vegetable oil and knead until the dough takes all the flour. Cover with a towel and leave for 20 minutes at room temperature. And then we knead until smooth.
We form sticks and bake
After 40 minutes, divide the dough into three parts, roll them out with a thin layer and sprinkle sesame seeds on both sides. Then cut into long thin strips up to one centimeter wide. We cover the baking sheet with parchment and put these strips on it. If desired, you can twist them into spirals, or you can leave them straight.
Before the bread sticks go into the oven, let them stand a little, about 20 minutes. But it is no longer necessary that the size does not greatly increase. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees, put a baking sheet in it and bake the sticks for 15 minutes. When ready, immediately remove from the pan and collect vertically with a bouquet. On the table we serve in a basket or a tall vase.
Traditional breadsticks: a recipe for cooking
We offer you another recipe for traditional Italian hand-made bread sticks. Products: dry yeast - 1/3 packet, can be replaced with one tablespoon of fresh baking, warm water - 100 ml, granulated sugar - one pinch, malt extract - two teaspoons, salt - one tablespoon, premium flour - half a kilogram. To knead the dough we will use a glass container. We warm it by pouring hot water. Then wipe it dry, put the yeast in, pour in warm water and add a pinch of sugar sand.
Mix until the yeast dissolves, and leave it for 15 minutes alone. Knead a
malt extract with a wooden spatula
, a third of flour and salt. Little by little add another third of the flour, constantly kneading, until the mass doubles in volume. To knead the dough, prepare the work surface and sprinkle with flour. Put the mass out of the bowl and, adding a little flour, knead the dough for ten minutes. It should become elastic and smooth. We make a big ball out of it.
Italian bread sticks preparation process
We tear off a small piece the size of a walnut, form a ball from it and put it on a table sprinkled with flour. We do the same with the rest of the test. The result should be approximately 30 balls. We take one of them, knead it with our hands, then put it on the table and roll it into a thin long sausage. We shift to a baking sheet, oiled or greased. Repeat the operation with other balls, folding on a baking sheet. This is our future bread sticks (about 30 pieces). Preheat the oven to 280 degrees and send a baking sheet into it for 10 minutes. Then we get it and turn the product over.
And back to the oven. Already 7-8 minutes. Do not allow brown baking. Let it cool - and you can serve it on the table. Cooked correctly according to this recipe, the sticks should be crisp. Place the damp dish in the oven for a couple of minutes immediately before serving.