Quick and Easy Breadsticks

So do you ever find yourself finally getting around to thinking about what to do for dinner at like 4:30 and wish you had started earlier so you could have some breadsticks to go with your meal? Well here is a recipe for you. I found it over here. No need to spend hours waiting for them to rise- just let them rise in your oven!

1 1/2 C warm water
2 T sugar
1 T yeast
1/2 t salt
3 1/2- 4 C flour
1/4 C butter
3/4 C grated Parmesan or mozzarella cheese
Johnny's Garlic Seasoning (or your favorite garlic bread seasoning)

Mix the water, sugar and yeast together in a measuring cup or in the bottom of your mixer. Let it sit for 5 minutes. Add the salt and the flour, one cup at a time, until it is well incorporated. Mix on high for 5 minutes. Let the dough rest for 5 minutes. Melt the butter and pour half of it into a jelly roll pan (large cookie sheet).

Place the dough in the center of the pan. Let it sit for 2 or 3 minutes. Letting the dough rest makes it MUCH easier to shape. Spread the dough out flat onto the pan until it reaches all of the edges.

Pour the other half of the butter onto the dough. Spread it around with your hands. Sprinkle the Johnny's Garlic Seasoning all over the dough, and then the Parmesan cheese. With a pizza cutter cut the dough into three rows lengthwise, and then into about 12 little height wise rows.

Put the pan into a 170 degree oven for about 7-10 minutes. The breadsticks should rise about 1 inch. Turn you oven up to 350 and bake for about 12 minutes (this includes the time it takes for your oven to heat up), or until golden brown.

When they come out of the oven let them sit and rest again for about 5 minutes. Then redefine your cutting lines with the pizza cutter. I use a pair of cooking scissors to cut the edges where the pizza cutter can't reach.