To say these homemade breadsticks are delicious is a gigantic understatement, especially when dipped in your favorite marinara or pizza sauce. These cheesy breadsticks are covered with butter, garlic & herbs, and mozzarella cheese. Bake until golden and you have a side that majorly competes with the main dish. Does any other food even exist when you have cheese + garlic + bread? (Homemade cheese bread and asiago-crusted skillet bread agree—no other food matters.)
Cheesy Breadsticks Dough
You can make these breadsticks with 1 pound of store-bought or homemade pizza dough. My homemade pizza dough yields about 2 lbs of dough, which is enough for 2 pizzas or 1 pizza (BBQ chicken pizza, anyone?) and 1 batch of cheesy breadsticks. If you only need 1 batch of breadsticks, freeze the other half of dough for another time. You will want to make these cheesy breadsticks again. (You can also make stromboli with the other half of dough.) And if you enjoy baking with whole wheat flour, you could absolutely prepare these cheesy breadsticks with whole wheat pizza dough instead. That recipe also yields about 2 lbs of dough. Even though store-bought dough is super convenient, I urge you to try homemade pizza dough sometime. The dough requires 6 basic ingredients and about 60-90 minutes to rise. Most of the “work” is hands-off and the flavor is outstanding.
Let’s Make Homemade Cheesy Breadsticks
Once you have your pizza dough ready, here’s what comes next: Flavor Tip: Sprinkle cornmeal on the lined baking sheet. Cornmeal adds a lovely crisp.
Quick Video Tutorial
These cheesy breadsticks are easier than you expect and the best addition to pizza night. And if you make and freeze a few batches of homemade pizza dough ahead of time, you can have this cheesy side dish/snack at your disposal ALL THE TIME. Wait, is that a good or bad thing?!? PS: If you need an awesome homemade pizza sauce recipe, I’ve made and love this one. These are also great for a sauce dipper with my slow cooker turkey meatballs.
So You Like Bread & Cheese?
Join the club. Here are even more recipes:
Ham & Cheese Pockets Cheese Bread Rosemary Garlic Pull Apart Bread Soft Pretzel Bites with Spicy Nacho Cheese Sauce Homemade Pizza Rolls and Pizza Pull-Apart Rolls Jalapeño Cheddar No-Knead Bread Homemade Stromboli
Need to skip the cheese? Try these homemade breadsticks instead.
