Love the breadsticks at restaurants? You can now make your own sesame grissini at home with this easy recipe! They are the perfect snack for parties!
You’re hosting a party and want to make some snacks for your guests? Grissini! Looking for an appetizer for date night? Grissini!
These sesame grissini are looking super fancy but aren’t really that complicated.
For making grissini you have 2 options (probably more, but I can think of these two right now):
1. You can divide the dough into small pieces and roll each ball of dough in your hands until you’ve got these long ropes of dough, which you can then brush with oil and sprinkle with the sesame seeds OR
2. you can roll out the dough just like pizza, brush with oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds, cut the dough into strips and then twist the strips.
I’ve used both of these methods before but let me tell you, the second method IS SO MUCH FASTER especially if you’re making even larger amounts (like for a party). So I’m using method 2 for this recipe. Method 1 results in the more traditional-looking grissini, though.
How to make vegan sesame grissini
The ingredients
You will need:
- all-purpose flour
- instant yeast
- salt
- olive oil
- water
- sesame seeds
Of course, you can add all kinds of seeds or herbs on top instead of the sesame seeds. How about some rosemary, or poppy seed grissini?
The basic steps
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Sesame Grissini / Breadsticks
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 teaspoon salt + more to sprinkle on top
- 1 teaspoon instant yeast
- 1 teaspoon olive oil + more for brushing the top
- 2/3 cup lukewarm water
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, salt, and instant yeast. Then add the olive oil and water. Stir to combine, then knead with your hands (or use a kitchen machine with a dough hook) until it's a smooth dough. If the dough is too sticky, add more flour; if it's too crumbly, add more water.
- Cover the bowl with a clean kitchen towel and let it sit in a warm place until the dough doubles in size (for about 2 hours).
- Preheat the oven to 200 °C or 400 °F.
- Roll out the dough on a lightly floured parchment paper, like you would with pizza, and brush the dough with olive oil. Sprinkle salt and sesame seeds on top.
- With a pizza cutter, cut the dough in strips. Transfer the parchment paper with the grissini onto a baking sheet. Twist each of the strips.
- Bake the sesame grissini in the oven for about 15 minutes until golden and crispy.