Parmesan Grissini

[CarolineW]

Name of Recipe: Parmesan Grissini
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Ingredients:
75g ungrated parmesan cheese
50g unsalted butter
200g whole milk
1 Packet of dried yeast
375g bakers flour
10g sea salt



Preparation:
Chop the parmesan into walnut sized cubes, place into the Thermomix bowl and grate on speed 10 for 4 seconds.   Transfer the grated parmesan into a bowl and set aside

Place the butter in the Thermomix bowl and chop on speed 5 for 2 seconds.
Melt the chopped butter at 90 degrees on speed 1 for 2 minutes
Add 200g of whole milk and your Thermomix bowl temp should be registering 37 degrees
Add your packet of yeast, flour, salt and parmesan. Stir on speed five for 3 seconds
Now knead the mixture on interval setting (the wheat symbol) for 4 minutes.

Turn the dough out onto a clean surface and stretch into an A4 sized rectangle
Work your way over the entire surface of the dough making deep indentations with eight fingers at once.
When the surface of the dough is covered with indentations, fold it in half  turn it ninety degrees, stretch it out to an A4 sized rectangle and repeat the indentation making process again.
Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a damp tea towel and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes.

Turn on your oven now to 180 degrees.

Repeat the dimpling and folding process and leave to rise in the covered bowl again for another 30 minutes

Cut the dough in half and roll each half out into a large rectangle about 30cm or more on its long side.
Slice this rectangle of dough into 1cm wide strips.

Now roll the strips one at a time on the work surface with your hands to form long thin sausages (like with plasticine)
Press down on one end to create a flattened spoon shape.(I don't know why)

Place on a non stick baking tray, big enough to accommodate your breadsticks and rest them for 10 minutes.

Bake for ten to fifteen minutes until golden brown, keep checking them.




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Tips/Hints: I found This recipe is thanks to Rick at http://ricksthermomixblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/parmesan-grissini.html  I found Thermomixer's comment about making them like a plasticine snake really helpful when making them.  In future, I wouldn't make them so long.  It looked impressive, but they were a bit impractical when it came to eating them.   I served them with the cream cheese & herb dip - very nice.

[Thermomixer]

Thanks for posting the recipe - I was too lazy to type it up - but always worry that the link may be lost.

[Rach]

yum! these look great... will try out and report back when my baby is asleep later!

[Thermomixer]

Hi Rach - I think that you should be able to use the knead function  on the TMX to do a lot of the dimpling and folding to save you time.

Great to see that you have hit the ground running on the forum