Asiago Spinach Breadsticks With Pine Nuts
These soft bread sticks are delicious right out of the oven! They are nice sprinkled with coarse salt, and might even be better with coarse salt mixed with chopped pine nuts! i used my bread machine to make the dough. Active prep time includes the 1 1/2 hour bread machine dough making time.
Steps
Rinse the baby spinach leaves and microwave for 3 minutes.
Drain & cool in colander.
Then coarsely chop.
Separate the egg and put the yolk in your bread machine pan.
Save the white for the glaze.
Put the remaining ingredients into bread pan in order suggested by your bread machine instructions.
My breadman recommends wet ingredients first with flour and pine-nuts next.
Then put salt in off to one side and make a well in the flour for the yeast.
Finally sprinkle the cheese on top.
Set machine for dough , press start.
Grease two baking sheets.
Make a wash of the egg white and 2 tsp water.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
When dough is ready , remove from bread machine and punch down.
Cut the dough into 16 pieces.
Roll each pieces between your palms to form a rope about 6 inches long.
Place breadsticks on baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
Brush breadsticks with egg wash.
Sprinkle with coarse salt.
Bake bread sticks until golden , about 20 minutes.
Ingredients
water, egg, asiago cheese, baby spinach leaves, olive oil, honey, salt, all-purpose flour, pine nuts, yeast, coarse salt