Italian grissini breadsticks

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make grissini? Prepare all ingredients. Use wheat flour of the highest grade, take the butter out of the refrigerator in advance, it should be soft, you can replace the pressed yeast with dry ones, then they will need only 4 grams, olive oil can be replaced with vegetable oil. In addition to salt, you can use your favorite seasonings as spices, for example, oregano, Italian herbs, basil, sesame, etc.

2. Step 2:

   

   Dissolve the pressed yeast in lukewarm water, do not scald them with hot water, otherwise they will die, then pour the dissolved yeast into a container in which you will knead the dough.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add salt, pour in olive oil and sift wheat flour. Knead the dough until the gluten develops moderately, that is, until the dough becomes more homogeneous and not sticky during the kneading process. The surface of the dough should become smoother.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add the marked butter to the dough and now knead the dough until it is completely smooth, sprinkling a little flour on the work surface.

6. Step 5:

   

   Put the kneaded dough in a bowl and cover with a towel. Leave the dough in the fermentation bowl for 1 hour.

7. Step 6:

   

   During this process, knead the dough 1 time to redistribute the yeast over the dough, equalize the temperature in different parts of the dough and remove excess carbon dioxide, which inhibit the activity of yeast, slow down the fermentation process itself and destroy gluten.

8. Step 7:

   

   Turn on the oven to heat up to 190oC by setting the top-bottom+convection mode. At this time, knead the finished dough again and roll it into a layer. Cut the rolled dough into 2 cm wide strips. It is very convenient to use a pizza knife for this. Roll out the resulting strips to 30 cm, then twist them into spirals. At this point, you can sprinkle grissini with your favorite spices.

9. Step 8:

   

   Put the blanks on a baking sheet lined with parchment and, without additional proofing, immediately send the grissini to bake in the oven for 20 minutes. A golden brown crust should form. Be careful not to over-dry the sticks. Adjust the duration and temperature of cooking grissini, focusing on the temperature and design of your oven.