Home-made garlic breadsticks

Children love these, don’t they? But then the market ones are loaded with salt, preservatives and lot of unhealthy ingredients we don’t wish to expose our children to. We get to you a recipe to make yummy garlic breadsticks at home, almost the restaurant quality, but these are healthy and fresh. Try them today!

Ingredients

1 packet active dry yeast- 2 tsp

4 ¼ cup maida

2 tbsp butter (or refined oil)

2 tbsp sugar

1 tsp salt (if using salted butter, cut back on this)

2-3 cloves of garlic, roasted and minced

Garnishing

3 tbsp butter

½ tsp salt (adjust as per taste)

½ tsp oregano dried or fresh leaves

Method

1) In a bowl, take ¼ cup warm water. Dissolve the yeast and leave aside till it bubbles, 5 mins or so.

2) Add flour, butter, sugar, salt, garlic, and 1 ¼ cup warm water, and yeast. Knead by hand or in a paddle mixer till a sticky, stringy dough gets made, 5 mins.

3) Knead the dough with hand till it is smooth and comes together, 3 mins (oil your palms if needed). Let rest, covered with a damp muslin cloth in a warm place to let it rise.

4) After 2-3 hours, when it has doubled up, knead again. Kneading traps air and the more air the more fluffy and light the bread will turn out to be. Again let rest for ½ hour to 1 hour.

5) Roll the dough into a log, and cut strips the shape and size of garlic breadsticks. Brush with butter and salt.

6) In a pre-heated oven 180-200 C, place the cut strips to bake. Once golden brown, take out, and brush again with butter, oregano, salt. Put back in to bake again. This should take around 45 mins, but depends from oven to oven. Put a knife inside to check done-ness. 

7) Glaze with butter and serve.

Photo courtesy: Jeshu John