How to Make Olive Garden Breadsticks

With basic pantry ingredients, you can enjoy these fluffy soft Olive Garden Breadsticks fresh out of your own oven. Warm, buttery, homemade bread is yours.

Homemade Breadsticks Taste Better Than Olive Garden’s.

There’s a reason for the long standing popularity of Olive Garden’s famous breadsticks. They’re soft, fluffy, buttery, and oh-so-garlicky.

Some of us have fond cravings for dunking those pillowy breadsticks into comforting bowls of Pasta e Fagioli. Or perhaps a meal of breadsticks and Creamy, Crispy Caesar Salad is what your taste buds call for.

Once you try these homemade breadsticks, you’ll never go back to anything else. All it takes is basic pantry ingredients, most of which you may already have in your kitchen.

Key Ingredients for Soft Homemade Breadsticks

You may already have most of these basic ingredients in your pantry right now. They’re great items to always have on hand for baking or cooking in general.

• Active dry yeast: stores typically carry this in their baking aisle, near the flours and sugars. It commonly comes in a small jar or in small envelope-like packages. Do check the expiration date to ensure the freshness of yeast.
• All purpose flour: plain all-purpose flour works perfectly for these homemade breadsticks. No need for specialty flours.
• Butter: either salted or unsalted butter will work here. Note that salted butter stays fresh longer in your fridge than unsalted, as the salt is a natural preservative. Be sure you’re using sticks of real butter that haven’t gone rancid. Avoid margarine or tubs of butter spreads.
• Sugar: regular white (aka granulated) sugar, sweet and simple
• Table salt: for the dough mixture, you’ll want to use common table salt. (Save the coarse kosher salt for the topping.)

Topping Your Homemade Bread

• Kosher salt: the coarse texture of these larger salt crystals makes a difference, so if you need to substitute here, sub with a coarse sea salt (not fine table salt.)
• Garlic powder: it’s important to use garlic powder, rather than dried minced garlic, as the fine texture of garlic powder adheres well to the butter coating.
• Grated Parmesan cheese: feel free to use either the 100% pre-grated parmesan cheese from the jar or finely grate your own block of parmesan cheese.
• Dried oregano: feel free to sub with any other dried herb you have on hand, such as basil or Italian blend.

PRO TipS

Do ahead: prep your topping ingredients while the dough is rising. It helps to have melted butter and seasonings ready to go.

Eat now: Bake your better-than Olive Garden breadsticks while everyone’s around (and drooling) so you can serve them fresh out of the oven.  These are truly best when eaten warm and fresh.

Try Our 3-Ingredient Shortbread, too:

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