Bread Sticks

Name: Bread Sticks
Yield: Makes about Thirty-Four 12-inch-long Bread Sticks
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 3 cups flour; ½ teaspoon salt; ¼ pound Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated; 1 cup barely warm water; ¾ teaspoon active dry yeast; ½ cup extra virgin olive oil, plus additional for bowl

Preparation info

Makes about
Thirty-Four 12 inch
-long Bread Sticks

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking

By James Peterson

Published 2007

About

One of the great things about making bread sticks—known as grissini in Italy—is how little dough you need to make a lot of them. Any bread dough will do as long as it is stiff enough to hold its shape. The dough used here is flavored with olive oil and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

Ingredients

3 cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ pound

Europe
Italy
Bread
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Review the steps for bread making before beginning. Combine the flour, salt, and cheese in a bowl if you are mixing the dough by hand or in the mixer bowl if you are using a stand mixer. Pour over the water. Sprinkle the yeast over the water and let stand for 3 minutes, or until the yeast softens. Pour over the olive oil.