Restaurant Style Breadsticks Recipe Tutorial

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The craziness of the holidays is upon us!  Family, friends, gatherings and good times.  It also means lots of meal planning and cooking.  I love holiday meals that look impressive but are easy to throw together and don’t take forever to prepare!  The classic combination of lasagna with breadsticks is a crowd pleaser.  These restaurant style breadsticks are easy to make, compliments NESTLÉ® STOUFFER’S® Family Size Entreés, look amazing, and can be made in under an hour!

This recipe also has a “crafty” element to it – that involves putting the breadstick on dowels and displaying them.  Since these breadsticks are on an actual stick they make a great looking display in a vase, cup, or foam base.

To prep for my meal I headed over to my local Walmart to pick up some ingredients and a STOUFFER’S® Family Size Entreé, Lasagna with Meat Sauce (it’s on Rollback until the end of December).   You can find it in the freezer family meals section.

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Restaurant Style Breadsticks Recipe Tutorial

Prep Time30 mins

Cook Time25 mins

Total Time55 mins

Course: bread

Author: Angel Hickman Peterson

Ingredients

• 5 1/4 cups white bread flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 T Salt
• 2 T instant acting yeast
• 2 T soy lecithin
• 2 cups very warm tap water
• 12 inch dowels
• cooking spray
• Italian bread sprinkle
• 2 T melted butter

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• Soak wooden dowels in water (this is a must or they will burn in the oven).
  
• Combine all the dry ingredients and mix.
• Add the water and soy lecithin.
• Dough should be on the sticky side, if it's not add a little more water.
• Using dough hook mix for 5 minutes.
  
• Spray work surface with cooking spray, roll out dough to about half an inch thick.
  
• Cut dough into strips that are about and inch and a half wide (a pizza cutter works great for this part).
  
• Take each strip and wrap it around a dowel tightly ( be sure to leave room on the bottom of the stick for holding..
• Sit it on a greased cookie sheet.
  
• Brush on butter and sprinkle with Italian bread sprinkle.
  
• Allow to rise for 18 tp 25 minutes.
• Bake for 25 minutes.
• Allow to cool on baking sheet ( if they don't cool they will fall off the stick)
• Display the breadsticks and accept compliments for awesome baking skills.

Once the breadsticks have cooled, stick them in a vase or a Styrofoam base (the one in the picture is three discs put on top of each other and spray painted.

Do you have a go to meal during the holidays?  I would love to hear about it – tell me in the comments below!