This week’s theme is Greek dishes and I have to make three dishes. But I was so spoilt for choice that picking only three was a tough job. But I couldn’t miss out on the breads and so I picked two breads and a salad for this week. The first is this delicious olive breadstick which is simple to bake and tastes absolutely amazing.
Ideally you would need to twist the dough a little before baking but I missed that because I was in a hurry to go somewhere and so the shapes are not ideal but it doesn’t have much of an impact on the taste or texture of the crumb. So mine tourned out more like a roll and less like breadsticks but all’s well that tastes well. Right?
Makes 10 bread sticks
Recipe from here
WHAT WE NEED
All purpose flour 200 gms
Whole wheat flour 50 gms
Water 180 gms
Instant yeast 5 gms
Salt 5 gms
Olive oil 1 tbsp
Black olives, pitted & chopped 120 gms
Dried thyme 1 tsp
WHAT TO DO
- Mix the flours, yeast and salt in a bowl
- Add the water and olive oil
- Knead for 5-7 minutes till it is a wet soft dough
- Add the olives and thyme and mix well to incorporate them in the dough
- Place them in a greased bowl till the dough triples in size. It should take around 1- 1 1/2 hours
- Take out the dough and divide into 10 equal parts
- Roll each part of the dough and twist to form a stick
- Place on a greased baking tray, cover and set aside for 30 minutes
- Preheat the oven at 220C
- Bake for 15-20 minutes or till the top of the bread stick is nicely brown
- Cool slightly on a wire rack
- Serve warm
- Enjoy!
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Twisted or not, the texture of the bread stick is so good. You are becoming a master bread baker.
Omg, ultimate breadsticks, love olives in bread, lovely breadsticks.
Awesome bread , now you surely are a pro at these , the bread looks super tempting , would love to grab it .
I am sure these bread sticks tastes great with soups. However, the addition of olives should make it as a great snack as well, I guess.
Those breadsticks look so inviting Sowmya. Love those olives peeking out — yummy!!
they look so good – if only I liked olives 🙂
True this is absolutely amazing
OMG what an amazing crumb Sowmya. I am coming to BAngalore just to eat this.
The texture of the bread sticks looks amazing.
Oh my Sowmya, that texture is a kill yaar!..too good..one of these days I must pick on my yeast and attempt the long bookmarks I have of yours!