Olive Garden Breadsticks Copycat Recipe

You will be blown away by our Olive Garden Breadsticks Copycat recipe. It is so good, that you won’t even miss eating the ones at Olive Garden.

I won’t lie, there are plenty of times I long for a restaurant meal, but when I can make it in the comfort of my own home, that is when these copycat recipes stand out and come in handy.

Now you too can make your own Olive Garden breadsticks recipe easy and in no time at all. Check your pantry to make sure you have the list of Olive Garden Breadsticks ingredients then get to work!

For more tasty copycat recipes, take a look at our Olive Garden Shrimp Scampi Copycat Recipe (without Wine), Instant Pot Pasta e Fagioli Recipe (Olive Garden Copycat), and the staple Olive Garden Fresh Garden Salad Copycat Recipe.

Ingredients You Need to Make Our Olive Garden Breadsticks Copycat Recipe:

Ingredients:

Breadsticks

• Hot water (105-115 degrees F)
• Sugar
• Active dry yeast
• Bread flour
• Salt
• Salted butter softened

Topping:

• Salted butter melted
• Garlic salt for topping

How To Make Our Olive Garden Breadsticks Copycat Recipe:

• In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar and yeast in the water and let sit for 5 minutes, until it is frothy and bubbly.

• In a stand mixer bowl, combine 2 1/2 cups flour and salt. Using the paddle attachment, mix the softened butter into the flour until well combined. (If you don’t have a stand mixer, simply mix ingredients together in a bowl using a large mixing spoon.)
• Add the sugar and yeast mixture to the flour mixture. Using the dough hook, knead dough in the bowl for 8 minutes (if you don’t have a mixer, feel free to knead by hand).

• The dough may be sticky, so add more flour as needed or until the dough stops sticking to the sides of the bowl (at the most, add 1/2 cup – if you add more than that, your breadsticks won’t turn out).

• Cover the bowl with a towel and let the dough sit for 1 1/2 hours or until it has doubled in size.

• Once the dough has doubled, divide the dough into 12 equal portions (if you want to weigh them, they will be about 2 ounces each). Roll into elongated shapes about 1 1/2″ thick and 6-7″ long.

• Place the dough on baking sheets and cover it with a towel. Let dough sit for 1 hour until doubled again in size.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

• Bake breadsticks for 10 minutes or until they start to brown slightly.

• Make the topping by combining the melted butter and garlic salt. When the breadsticks come out of the oven, brush them with the melted butter mixture using a pastry brush. Serve and enjoy!

To Make This Copycat Recipe You Will Need:

1. Small mixing bowl (2)
2. Stand mixer with dough hook (THIS one works great)
3. Large mixing spoon
4. Large bowl
5. Kitchen towel
6. Kitchen scale
7. Baking sheets
8. Pastry brush

How long do Olive Garden Breadsticks last?

If you store the breadsticks at room temperature in an airtight container and they will last about 2 days. If you store them in the fridge for 3-4 days.

You can also put them in a freezer bag and store them in the freezer for up to 3 months.

Another way to make them

While these breadsticks are absolutely delicious as is, you can always top them with some mozzarella cheese and pop them back in the oven for 2-3 minutes. Let the cheese melt to turn these into a cheesy breadstick version of the Olive Garden breadsticks.

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Olive Garden Breadsticks Copycat Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 cup hot water (105-115 degrees F)
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 2 ½ – 3 cups bread flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons salt
• ¼ cup salted butter softened

Topping:

• 3 Tablespoons salted butter melted
• 1/2 teaspoons garlic salt for topping

Instructions

• In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar and yeast in the water and let sit for 5 minutes, until it frothy and bubbly.
• In a stand mixer bowl, combine 2 1/2 cups flour and salt. Using the paddle attachment, mix the softened butter into the flour until well combined. (If you don’t have a stand mixer, simply mix ingredients together in a bowl using a large mixing spoon.)
• Add the sugar and yeast mixture to the flour mixture. Using the dough hook, knead dough in the bowl for 8 minutes (if you don’t have a mixer, feel free to knead by hand).
• The dough may be sticky, so add more flour as needed or until the dough stops sticking to the sides of the bowl (at the most, add 1/2 cup – if you add more than that, your breadsticks won’t turn out).
• Cover the bowl with a towel and let dough sit for 1 1/2 hours or until it has doubled in size.
• Once the dough has doubled, divide dough into 12 equal portions (if you want to weigh them, they will be about 2 ounces each). Roll into elongated shapes about 1 1/2″ thick and 6-7″ long.
• Place the dough on baking sheets and cover with a towel. Let dough sit for 1 hour, until doubled again in size.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Bake breadsticks for 10 minutes or until they start to brown slightly.
• Make the topping by combining the melted butter and garlic salt. When the breadsticks come out of the oven, brush them with the melted butter mixture using a pastry brush. Serve and enjoy!

Notes

Nutrition

Equipment

• Large Mixing Bowl
• Stand Mixer
• Non-stick Cooking Spray
• Baking Sheets
• Pastry Brush

Recipe Details

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Questions & Reviews

1. Oh yum! I love those breadsticks, but they are kind of dangerous! I swear I eat like 10 of them in one setting. 🙂 Thanks for sharing though!
2. I love them too!! Good to know info!
   Thanks for sharing at Show & Share!
3. I cant wait to cook these for my family on Super Bowl Sunday! We all adore Olive Garden Bread sticks…. I think I will make 2 batches 😉
4. I used to work at the OG and the breadsticks don’t have the melted butter and garlic salt on them before baking. We put it on once we pull the hot breadsticks out of the oven.. Makes a big difference.
5. Did you just use Reg AP for this recipe! Looks great, I was just curious, bc different flours have diff protein %’s THANKS!
6. Yep! Just regular All Purpose flour!
7. About how many breadsticks do wou make in one batch?
8. It depends on the size that you make them . . . I was able to get about 18 breadsticks, but they weren’t that big. I hope that helps!
9. Do you only do one rise on these?
10. How would you need to change the recipe if I have dry active yeast instead of instant yeast?