Shital's-Kitchen: Garlic Bread Sticks

Thursday, July 31, 2014

Garlic Bread Sticks

Every time I make pasta for dinner, my husband would like some garlic bread as an accompaniment to dip in garlic infused olive oil. And like everyone would do, I would just apply some garlic butter on a slice of bread or baguette and would grill it. That is so quick and delicious too. But, we love soft, warm, bread sticks from Olive Garden. Those are just the best!!

So while I was making a batch of Pav Bread last week, I tried to experiment and make one garlic bread stick. OMG! it was just amazing. Snehanshu was ready to give my a best baker award that day :) for not only making perfect pav breads every time, but also making this soft garlic bread stick. I am not much of a baker, but hearing that your picky husband likes this a lot and approves of this recipe, definitely means something. :) I was on the top of the world that day!

So this time with my pasta, it was not just easy store bought bread with garlic butter. Instead, warm, soft, garlic bread sticks to surprise my dear husband :)

To make around 16 bread sticks.
Start with 1+1/4 cup warm water (100F) in a large bowl. Add 1 packet dry active yeast (2+1/4 tsp.) and 2 tbsp sugar. Mix and let the mixture rest for 5 minutes.
Add 3 tbsp. melted butter, 1 tsp. salt and 3 cups all-purpose flour.
Mix together to make a sticky dough.
Lightly dust your clean counter. Empty the dough and knead it for 8-10 minutes. This is the most important stage to create gluten, and make the dough elastic.


To test if the dough is ready: lightly poke the dough, if it springs back, the dough is well kneaded.




Keep in a greased bowl and cover with a damp towel. Let the dough rest for an hour.

Here is the dough doubled in size.

Punch and knead the dough again for 4-5 minutes.

Divide the dough into 16 equal parts.


Roll to form an 8in rope.

Lay in a nonstick baking tray or well greased and dusted tray keeping 1 to 1 1/2 inch space in between.


I have two 13in x 7in trays with lids to keep them covered. 
Cover and let them rest for 45 min to an hour.


Bread sticks doubled in size.
Preheat the oven to 450F. Never keep the bread in a low temperature oven. Preheating means getting the oven temperature and air inside to 450F. This will ensure that the bread is evenly baked. If your oven does not indicate the temperature, set your oven to 450 F and keep it on for at least 10 minutes before putting the bread sticks to bake.

Bake them in a preheated oven for 8-10 minutes. They should turn golden brown within 10 or max to 12 minutes. Keeping the bread in for a long time may result in bread sticks turning hard.



Remove from an oven and place the tray on a rack.

Quickly apply butter on them and sprinkle garlic powder or garlic salt on them while still hot.






Pull each stick apart and serve immediately.
If you do not want them to stick to each other, keep them 2-3 inches apart from one another before proving.



Serve with garlic and herb flavored olive oil.

Wrap in cute brown paper bags for your guests.


Enjoy these deliciously soft bread sticks!

27 comments:

  1. Hi shital, I tried pav recipe but it turned out hard ..I followed every step don't know y it happened :( can u pls tel y pav turned hard ?

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    1. Did you place it in a preheated oven? Also be careful not to over knead the dough. The dough should be nice and soft.

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    2. Hey Shital ,I tried out pav n garlic bread sticks recipe both very hit. thank u for the recipe.I have a question for you can I use whole wheat flour(chapatti atta) for the pav n bread sticks recipe if yes how does it turn out n what r the things I need to take care off..

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  2. Hi this recipe is same as pav recipe rt ? Can we use bread flour ?

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    1. Yes this is same as my pav. Yes you can use bread flour too.

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  3. Shital i baked the bread stick they were very soft. Only one thing i did not get is that nice brown shade .. and as you said i did baked on 450 for 15 minutes in pre-heated oven .. So my question is how you get that brown shade same for your Pav too they turn awesome just am not getting that nice color

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    1. Don't know why you did not get the color. I am not doing anything differently for the color :) How about you crank up the heat and bake in a 475F oven? Try it out, it should work.

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    2. I think sometimes you have to place in the top racks.

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  4. Thanks alot shital, I am a first time baker, and tried ur garlic bread, it came out perfect and my son is loving it. Next in line is ur pav bread and plain bread. Huge thanks :)

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  5. Hey Shital I see in your pics you have something on your counter on which u knead the dough.. Is it some kind of mat.?? Is it easy to clean rather than doing on counter top. Thanks

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    1. It is actually my silicon baking mat. It is easy to clean and dishwasher safe too.

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  6. Hi Shital,
    I baked the breadsticks today. Since I leave in a rental unit my Oven is old so I kept it on 475. After 12 min or so the color was not quite brown so I increased the temp. I could get the brown color but the sticks tasted a bit raw ( Yeast smell). I was concerned that if I leave it for more time they would get hard. is there something I did wrong? Also I had to buy Deep/Bansi brand yeast as the store as 2 grocery stores had ran out of the standard brands. Thanks: Priyanka.

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    1. It is okay to bake these slightly longer so that they are not raw from inside. try again for 15 -18 minutes at the 475. I haven't tried Deep yeast. Please do give a try and let me know how it turns out.

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  7. Hi shital i have to say I love love love you....u r my baking queen....i tried this today it was perfect what a colour what a texture and not to forget what a test.....awesome..i felt it was better then olive garden breadsticks....you know me n my hubby loved it...n we r on diet and for your receipes i take smoothies to balance it other day....but thanks a lot n keep posting more recipes....once again thank you a for amazing receipe.....:)

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    1. Thank you so much Ruchi...thanks a lot for you wonderful comment :)

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  8. Loved your receipe.Is it possible that I make fresh garlic paste and add it in dough itself . actually I prefer fresh garlic over the store bought one.

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    1. Thank you so much...yes you can use fresh garlic too. but I have noticed it does not give as much flavor and dry concentrated powder. You can finely mince it and mix with butter and then spread on baked bread sticks.

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  9. Dear Shital...
    Thanks for sharing your wonderful recipes.love ur blog. My dear hubby is vegan and avoids mostly milk /cheese etc. He is too picky and so hard to please . Everytime I use yeast he says it smells. Any tips to avoid that wud b of great help. TIA

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  10. Hi Shital,
    Thanks for all the wonderful recipes. I just came across this blog and tried garlic bread sticks last weekend and they turned out really good. The best thing about your recipes is that they turn out as good as you show in your pictures. Thanks again for sharing the secrets of your cooking with us.
    Devi

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  11. Dear Shital! This too turned out to be awesome!! I took the same quantity of ingredients to make garlic bread sticks and loaf of bread! I'm official Shital pav-wali now ;) Thank you!

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  12. It looks like your bread sticks turned out great! There is something special about having warm bread sticks with your meal. The only problem is, I end up filling myself up with them and have to take the rest of my meal home! http://www.borrellisrestaurant.com/html/about_us.html

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  13. what can we use if we dont have garlic salt?

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  14. Hi Shital,
    Thanks for the recipe, it turned out really nice! I just wanted to know if I can reduce the quantity of sugar in the recipe as we find it a little sweet for our taste. Thanks.

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