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Easy Homemade Breadsticks

Published: Jan 6, 2021 · Modified: Mar 10, 2023 by Ginny · This post may contain affiliate links.

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Are you on the hunt for an easy homemade breadsticks recipe? If so, I’ve got you covered. These are extremely easy to make, super fluffy and crispy at the same time, and best of all, there’s no mixer or bread maker required!

basket of easy, baked homemade golden brown breadsticks.
Delicious Basket of Freshly Baked Homemade Breadsticks
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1 🍽️ Why This Recipe Works
2 🥖 Ingredients
3 👩‍🍳 Instructions
4 💡 Expert Tips
5 Recipe FAQs
6 Easy Homemade Breadsticks
7 How to Proof Dough in Instant Pot

These easy breadsticks really are as simple and tasty as it gets. Use for dipping in soup, soaking up pasta sauce or serve with soft butter for a side dish. I’d love to hear how you liked it!

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🍽️ Why This Recipe Works

  • Super Easy – You seriously only need five minutes to prep these. The rest is waiting on the dough to rise and baking time.
  • Inexpensive – It requires just six ingredients and none of them are expensive. Add this one to your frugal recipes.
  • Perfect with Many Meals – Serve with pasta, steak, or a big bowl of soup.

🥖 Ingredients

Yeast – If you’re new to making homemade bread, here’s how to know if yeast is still alive. The yeast is ready when you can describe it in one of the following terms: foamy, bubbly, frothy. It should also roughly double in size.

If your proofed yeast looks anything like the picture, chances are you’re good to go. The proofing instructions are in the recipe below. You can also learn howl to Proof Your Yeast in the Instant Pot.

yellow cup filled with yeast and it is foamy showing that it is active and will help the bread rise.
Frothy Yeast Means It Is Active And Will Help The Dough Rise

Sugar – Think back to your high school science classes. It’s sugars that feed the yeast and help the bread dough rise.

Flour – Like all good breads, it’s flour and water that bind it all together. Have some fun and mix up the types of flours in this recipe. I used a simple enriched white flour.

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Step One: Combine the yeast, sugar and warm water in a small cup. Wait ten minutes until it is frothy. That’s just the yeast doing its thing and it means that it is still active and will help your dough rise nicely.

three process shots showing the yeast rising, the bread dough cut into breadsticks and the final baked breadsticks in a blue basket
Simple Steps That Anyone Can Do!

Step Two: Combine with salt and flour and mix well by hand. You’ll find a silicone spatula will work better than a wooden one. The mixture will be sticky and it is a pain to remove it from the wood spatula. Continue mixing for three minutes.

Step Three: Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface and then knead it by hand. Add a sprinkle of flour at a time as you knead. It will be ready once it is very smooth and no longer super sticky.

Step Four: Use the rolling pin to form it into a square about ½” thick. Cut it into breadstick shapes and place them on a lightly greased sheet pan for an hour to rise. I covered it with a kitchen towel to retain the heat.

Step Five: Let it rise for one hour and then bake it for 20 minutes. Brush on a bit of melted butter and let it finish baking.

That’s it! Seriously easy!!!

💡 Expert Tips

When cutting your dough, you have two options in styling your breadsticks. You can go the uber-fancy way and form them to shape by hand. Or, you can just slice them into sticks with a pizza cutter and call it a day. I chose the latter because I am terrible at hand-rolling breadsticks. I am really, really bad at it. 

Golden brown baked breadsticks in a basket and ready for dinner.
These are so EASY to Make!

Recipe FAQs

How do you store breadsticks?

After baking and cooling, keep them in a storage bag or wrapped in tin foil. They can be kept at room temperature and will typically last 3-5 days.

How do you reheat breadsticks?

The easiest way to reheat breadsticks is to put them in the oven at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes or until they are hot. Alternatively, cover them with a damp paper towel and microwave for 15-20 seconds.

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Tried this recipe? Please leave a star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ rating in the recipe card below and/or a review in the comments section further down the page. You can also stay in touch with me through social media by following me on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook!

basket of baked homemade breadsticks

Easy Homemade Breadsticks

An easy to make and to die for breadstick recipe that brings back memories of a favorite Italian restaurant. {WW 5 Points, Vegetarian}
5 from 2 votes
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Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Diet: Vegan, Vegetarian
Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes minutes
Rising: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Servings: 12
Calories: 93kcal
Author: Ginny

Ingredients

  • 1 packet Dry Yeast active
  • ½ cup Water reserved, warm
  • ½ tsp Sugar
  • 3½ cups Flour plus more for dusting
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 3½ tbsp Butter melted

Instructions

  • Pour yeast into a small bowl. Add the ½ cup warm water and sugar. Stir together. Let sit for 10 minutes. 
  • Once yeast is foamy, combine flour and salt and mix wet mixture into dry ingredients. 
  • Mix well with silicone spatula until a sticky dough forms. Continue to mix with spatula for 2-3 minutes. Then roll dough out on floured surface. 
  • Knead with floured hands for 10 minutes. If the dough is hard to work with, dust with additional flour. Using only a tiny bit at a time so it doesn’t dry out. The dough is ready when it is relatively smooth and no longer sticking to your hands. You can use a mixer for this as well and the same principle applies. 
  • Form dough into a ball and transfer into lightly greased large bowl. Set bowl in a warm location, cover and let rise for one hour. 
  • Transfer dough onto floured surface and use a rolling pin to roll out into a rectangle. Cut lengthwise into six long pieces (a pizza cutter makes this super simple). Cut once more in the middle to create 12 breadsticks. 
  • Place breadsticks on a lightly greased cookie sheet. Let rise for 1 hour. 
  • Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Melt butter and brush over breadsticks. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, brush with reserved melted butter. Bake for remaining 5 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. 

Notes

I highly recommend using a pizza cutter to form the dough into breadstick shapes.  You can roll it by hand, but the pizza cutter will get the job done in seconds!
Don’t rush the sugar, warm water, and yeast. Letting it rest for 10 minutes will make it bubbly and the breadsticks will turn out good. 
Kneading the dough with your hands is going to give you the most delicious results. 

How to Proof Dough in Instant Pot 

  1. Assemble your dough as you would, and then grease your Instant Pot liner. 
  2. Add in the dough and place a glass lid on top of your Instant Pot. Select the yogurt setting and let it rise for 30 minutes. Remove dough and then move on to the next steps in the recipe. 
This only works with the Yogurt setting. All other settings are too hot and will cook the dough. 

Nutrition

Serving: 1breadstick | Calories: 93kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 8mg | Sodium: 364mg | Potassium: 36mg | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 105IU | Calcium: 23mg | Iron: 0.7mg
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Ginny Collins is a passionate foodie and recipe creator of Savor and Savvy and Kitchenlaughter. Indoors she focuses on easy, quick recipes for busy families and kitchen basics. Outdoors, she focuses on backyard grilling and smoking to bring family and friends together. She is a lifelong learner who is always taking cooking classes on her travels overseas and stateside. Her work has been featured on MSN, Parade, Fox News, Yahoo, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many local news outlets. She lives in Florida where you will find her outside on the water in her kayak, riding her bike on trails, and planning her next overseas adventure.

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About Ginny

Hi!

Ginny Collins is a passionate foodie and recipe creator of Savor and Savvy and Kitchenlaughter. Indoors she focuses on easy, quick recipes for busy families and kitchen basics. Outdoors, she focuses on backyard grilling and smoking to bring family and friends together. She is a lifelong learner who is always taking cooking classes on her travels overseas and stateside. Her work has been featured on MSN, Parade, Fox News, Yahoo, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many local news outlets. She lives in Florida where you will find her outside on the water in her kayak, riding her bike on trails, and planning her next overseas adventure.

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  1. Stacie @ The Divine Miss Mommy says

    June 20, 2014 at 11:20 am

    I haven’t made bread in years but these breadsticks look amazing!!! I would love to experiment with some herbs in there.

    Reply
  2. Tatanisha W says

    June 20, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Oh what a great and easy recipe! I love bread and this would go great with Pasta (which we eat all the time over here).

    Reply
  3. Amanda Love ~ Growing Up Madison says

    June 20, 2014 at 2:07 am

    I love cheesy garlic breadsticks with marinara sauce. I love easy to make recipes and this one seems pretty easy although yeast intimidates me.

    Reply
  4. Jazmin Rode says

    June 20, 2014 at 1:37 am

    They’re perfect for little hands.

    Reply
  5. Liz Mays says

    June 19, 2014 at 10:59 pm

    I don’t think I’d take the time to roll them. I’d slice like you did. The important thing is the TASTE!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:36 am

      My thoughts exactly! 🙂

      Reply
  6. Lisa J. Jones says

    June 19, 2014 at 10:47 pm

    They Look Delicious I Must Make Thank You

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:36 am

      Hope you like them!

      Reply
  7. Laurie - Steals and Deals for Kids says

    June 19, 2014 at 10:37 pm

    I love breadsticks!!! These look pretty easy to make so next time I make an Italian dinner I am going to try them!!! Thanks for the recipe!!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:36 am

      They go great with Italian. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Maria Oller says

    June 19, 2014 at 10:24 pm

    the breadsticks look fantastic I bet they taste amazing thanks for the recipe!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:37 am

      In my (not so biased) opinion, they do taste great!

      Reply
  9. maria @ close to home says

    June 19, 2014 at 9:33 pm

    I would love to try these this summer, we love bread maybe too much;)

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:38 am

      Enjoy. I know the battle, sister. 😉

      Reply
  10. Debbie Denny says

    June 19, 2014 at 7:49 pm

    Love making breadsticks. I use a knife also.

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:40 am

      I used a pizza cutter for these but a knife also makes it super simple and it’s something we all have. 🙂

      Reply
  11. Tracie says

    June 19, 2014 at 7:32 pm

    Yum! Breadsticks are my favorite. I could eat baskets of them all by myself. Thanks for the easy to make recipe!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:42 am

      I can too! We’re a household of two and that batch I made for the post only lasted a day and a half!

      Reply
  12. Jessica says

    June 19, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    I consider myself the carb queen so this is the perfect recipe for me! I love breadsticks especially when they’re homemade. These look soft and fluffy and delicious!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:43 am

      Thanks, Jessica!

      Reply
  13. Jennifer B says

    June 19, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    These look beautiful and professional in my opinion!! When I make breadsticks they come out looking terrible but I think I will try your recipe because it looks easier!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:44 am

      Thanks, Jennifer! If I tried to roll them, they would’ve been a hot mess. That’s why I prefer to just cut them. Super simple and I can call them “rustic” if anyone complains that they’re imperfect. 😉

      Reply
  14. Robin (Masshole Mommy) says

    June 19, 2014 at 5:53 pm

    We love bread with our dinners. Especially if it’s something with sauce so we can dip the bread in it 🙂

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 20, 2014 at 1:45 am

      That’s one of my favorite ways to have breadsticks too 🙂

      Reply
  15. Rebecca | LettersFromSunnybrook says

    June 18, 2014 at 3:23 pm

    Yummy! I’m going to try making these when I make my Chicken Fettuccini Alfredo next!

    Reply
    • Jazmin Rode says

      June 18, 2014 at 8:05 pm

      Oh that sounds like a great way to serve them!

      Reply
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