Soup Bread Stick

Ingredients:

• 3cups flour
• 2tsp sugar
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 11gram instant dried yeast
• 1 ½ cup luke warm water
• 2 tbsp veg oil
• Egg wash: 2 tbsp beaten egg + 1 tbsp water (vegetarian can use warm milk with sugar as a wash)
• Garnish: Sesame seeds

Process:

• In a bowl, add the yeast and sugar with luke warm water. Set aside for 5 minutes. 
• Then in a big bowl mix this together with the flour & salt.
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or wet cloth and keep at  warm place  to rise in volume for more than one to two hours.
• Take lime sized balls out of the dough and shape it like thin sticks.
• If you want you can give shape by twisting or curving or you can keep it plain.
• Greased baking tray with veg oil.
• Put the strips on the baking tray maintaining I inches gap in between.
• Close with a wet muslin cloth and keep aside for 1/2 an hour for second rising.
• Pre heat the oven with maximum temperature.
• Apply egg wash with brush on top of the sticks.
• Garnish with sesame seeds.
• Bake this for 8-10 minutes and reduce the temperature to 100C.
• Turn the sticks gently once and bake till golden brown and crisp. Let it cool.
• Keep in dry air tight containers.