These garlic cheesesticks are the best side dish to any Italian meal! They are cheesy, flavorful, and super easy to make.
My very first job that I ever had was as a lifeguard at a community college in my hometown. I did it for two summers and was just about to move into doing it during the school year when I got into a bad car accident and broke my collar bone. For some reason, my boss didn’t like the idea of having a lifeguard with a broken collar bone…weird, I know. He told me that I could come back when I was healed up, but I decided to start working with my best friend instead – at a pizza place. I actually loved working there. Who knew that tossing and flipping dough could be so much fun?? The best food in that place was hands down their garlic cheesesticks. Although I’m sure mine don’t taste near as good as theirs did, I still thoroughly enjoy them!
This recipe isn’t anything fancy. It’s just plain and simple, but it definitely gets the job done. We used the same dough that we made for our Margherita Pizza. Heck, maybe you should just have a meal out of this and make both things! (This recipe will make one large thing of cheesesticks or two small ones.)
Other recipes you might like:
BBQ Chicken Pizza – a favorite in our house
Olive Garden Breadsticks – tastes just like the real thing
Zuppa Toscana – an easy, filling, tasty soup
Garlic Cheesesticks
These garlic cheesesticks are the best side dish to any Italian meal! They are cheesy, flavorful, and super easy to make.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup hot water 110-115℉
- 3/4 tsp. dry active yeast
- 1/2 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 Tbsp salt separated
- 1/2 Tbsp white sugar
- 1 & 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 Tbsp. butter softened
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 & 1/4 cups mozzarella cheese shredded
Instructions
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Sprinkle the yeast over the hot water and let sit for five minutes until yeast blooms.
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Add the olive oil, sugar, and 1/2 Tbsp. salt to the yeast and stir.
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In a separate bowl, measure out the flour and add the yeast mixture to it, stirring until well combined. (At this point, the dough may seem sticky, but don't worry, this is exactly how it's supposed to be.)
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Spray a separate bowl with cooking spray and place the dough in it.
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Cover the dough and let sit for about an hour, until doubled in size.
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Preheat the oven to 450℉
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Punch down the dough and turn it out onto a floured surface. Roll it out until it is about 1/2 inch thick. (More or less, depending on how you like it.)
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In a small bowl, combine the butter, garlic, and salt. Spread mixture over pizza dough with a pastry brush.
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Top with the cheese and bake for 9-12 minutes.
Ok. These look amazing. I’m a huge fan of cheesesticks and all the ones I make aren’t as great as the ones at pizza places. Trying these ASAP!
Yum! These look delicious…pinning pronto. 🙂
These look fabulous! I’m excited to try them. I also happen to LOVE that margherita pizza, so making them both is a great idea 🙂
Pinning so I can make these for my son! He will love them. When we go for pizza he always pigs out on the cheesy bread sticks and pretty much ignores the pizza. Thank you!
Yummie! Gotta try these! Liz
Sounds delicious!! Can’t wait to try them
Hello.
Visiting from Serenity Saturday.
Anything with cheese and garlic will get my vote (smile). These look so tasty. Thanks for sharing.
Moonlight Serenade
That looks so yummy! Garlic is always great!
Another yummy sounding recipe!!!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit!
Hope you have a fabulous week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/
We ate at Olive garden today, and these look so much better. I love anything with garlic on or in it! Great photography shot. Thanks for sharing your creative inspiration with Sunday’s Best – you helped make the party a success! PS – following you on Facebook!
This looks yummy an my family loves cheese sticks I have pinned it so that I remember the recipe. Stopping by from Reasons to Skip the housework link party
These are really wonderful and delicious looking!
We looooooooove garlic sticks, but I don’t often make garlic-cheesesticks.
I can’t wait to try these 🙂
These look so good. I am sitting drooling right now. Not a pretty site.
Debi @ Adorned From Above
I love any type of breadsticks! Best part of ordering a pizza is getting the bread to go with it! I’ll have to give these a try! Thanks so much for sharing at Mom’s Test Meal Mondays!
Oh my! gonna have to try this with dinner tonight….!
Crystelle
http://www.crystelleboutique.com/
I’ll take two baskets of these please!!
Thanks so much for sharing this at The DIY Dreamer.. From Dream To Reality!
I hope you healed up just fine! These breadsticks would be excellent with any soup or pasta meal, thanks for linking!
Talk about timing! I was just telling my hubby that in light of the high price of food, I’m revamping our family meals to include more soups. These bread sticks will be a perfect AND inexpensive side to many (especially italian) ones that I plan on making. Thanks for putting this out there!
Theresa 🙂
YUM! This will do nothing for my healthy eating, for sure, but it sounds so good! Making these this weekend 🙂
These are for me. Hubby does not do well with garlic so I could make these and have them all for myself.
Pinning! 🙂 I love breadsticks and these look heavenly. Thanks for sharing at Foodtastic Friday!
Absolutely mouth-watering! Thanks so much for linking up at Weekend Potluck. Please come back soon.
My boys always want cheese sticks with pizza. This sounds easy enough! Thank you for sharing at All My Bloggy Friends last week. I can’t wait to see what you share this tomorrow!
My boys always want cheese sticks with pizza. This sounds easy enough! Thank you for sharing at All My Bloggy Friends last week. I can’t wait to see what you share this tomorrow!
I love anything that has bread, garlic, and cheese. Great recipe. Thank you so much for sharing with Wednesdays Adorned From Above Link Party last week. This weeks Link Party is opened at
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2012/09/simple-anti-aging-moisturizer-and.html
from Wednesday until Sunday.
Hope to see you there.
Debi Bolocofsky
Adorned From Above
http://www.adornedfromabove.com
Looks so good I want to lick the computer screen!! Thanks for linking up to Tasty Thursdays on The Mandatory Mooch. I hope you will link up again this week. The party will be live tonight. http://www.mandatorymooch.blogspot.com
Thanks, Nichi
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Hello Sarah! Okay, So I just made these and my husband and I LOVED them! He just went on and on about how good the dough was (I agreed). It was delicious! Thank you for sharing a little part of Ephraim with me that I left behind when I moved! It was fun to eat these! Thanks!
-Jenna Haderlie ( I know I look stupid always having to sign, I don’t know how to change my name from unknown. Oops. Sorry!)