Easy Homemade Bread Sticks Recipe | How to Made Bread Sticks (2024)

Light and fluffy breadsticks that are easy to make, easy to cut, and easy to shape; a perfect simple side dish to add to any meal.

I make pizza most Friday nights and always hope to have enough leftovers for lunch the next day. If I just make pizza, I don’t always end up with enough to feed us again, but if I make breadsticks, I can get two meals for the effort of one! I’m all about that kind of arrangement.

Breadsticks are all about timing, in my opinion. I bake the first pizza, then thebread sticks, and then the second pizza. If we are still hungry after the first pizza, the breadsticks get munched on, and by the time the second pizza is out of the oven everyone is full. Hurray for leftovers!

This is the same dough recipe that I use in my perfect pizzeria-style crust recipe. Iseriouslyuse this dough all of the time! The dough makes 2 large pizzas or 1 large pizza and about a dozen bread sticks. I normally double the recipe and make 2 pizzas,breadsticks, andcinnamonsticks (recipe coming later this week!).

How do you store breadsticks?

I like to store them in an air-tight container at room temperature for a few days and in the fridge for up to a week.

Can you freeze bread sticks?

Yes! I have found that it’s best to bake them, let them cool, store them in an air-tight container, and then pop them in the freezer. Store in the freezer for up to 2 months, let thaw, and then warm them up (microwave and oven both work). I don’t like to freeze the dough to bake later. I don’t have good luck with frozen dough rising and getting fluffy.

Tips and tricks for making bread sticks at home:

• Don’t fear the yeast bread! Just knead it and work with it until it’s soft and tender. It shouldn’t be sticky. Once it rises, just roll it out and cut it.
• You can roll it out and cut it right on a baking mat or on parchment paper OR you can roll and cut the bread sticks out on your counter top and then simply pick up each bread stick and transfer it to a baking sheet. Both are great and easy options.
• My mom rubs the tops of the hot breadsticks with butter when they come out of the oven and then sprinkles them with a little Parmesan. So good.

How do you know if yeast is still good?

Fill up a small measuring cup with a little warm water. Add 1/4 teaspoon of your yeast and then add a pinch of sugar and lightly stir it together. Wait for 5 minutes. If the yeast is still active, you will see little bubbles along the top of the water and it will start to foam. I think the date on the yeast package is a good guide, and I like to store my yeast in the fridge to help keep it fresh. When in doubt, get new yeast. Nothing is worse than an unrisen loaf of bread because of old yeast!

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What can you serve homemade breadsticks with?

• Easy Homemade Meatballs Recipe(spaghetti and meatballs are life)
• The Best Instant Pot Broccoli and Cheese Soup
• Homemade Supreme Pizza Recipe
• Herbed Tomato Bacon Pizza
• Classic Homemade Lasagna Recipe

This is one of those recipes that I make again and again and I’m so excited for you to try it. Don’t need 24 bread sticks? Just cut the recipe in half; it’s an easy one to scale up and down as needed.