Garlic Bread
This delicious, perfectly crispy Garlic Bread is prepared with roasted garlic. Roasting the garlic gives a subtle sweet taste and removes the raw pungent flavor of garlic. While there are various different ways to make garlic bread, this is a fast method which you prepare using a prebakes bread.
Ingredients
- 1 french bread/baguette
- ½ cup softened butter (1 stick)
- 1 garlic bulb
- ¼ cup finely chopped fresh herb
- salt to taste
- chili flakes if using
- freshly cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Slice the tip off the entire garlic bulb and place it on an aluminum foil. Drizzle a little oil on top and wrap it around. Then place it on preheat oven at 400 F for 40 minutes.
- Take the butter stick out of the fridge in the meantime for it to soften at room temperature. Don't melt the butter.
- Once the garlic is ready, squeeze out the clove from the peel to a bowl. Add the softened butter to the bowl. Add salt, herb, pepper and chili flakes if using. Mash and mix it up.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F
- If you want soft garlic bread, then slice the bread in half, and spread the garlic butter on both the sides and then close the bread and wrap it with aluminum foil. Bake for 15 minutes.
- If you want crispy, then face the sliced side up and bake it for 15 minutes.
- Once cooled down, slice into bite size.
- I like to grate some Parmesan cheese on top.
Notes
TIP to soften butter - Place the butter stick with the wrapper in the microwave and microwave for 10 to 15 second. Another tip is just grate that hard stick of butter in a bowl.
Roasting garlic definitely takes time and if you want to skip that part, it's fine too. You can use raw garlic instead.
Raw garlic can give a much pungent taste and that's why I prefer to roast it.
Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 452kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 11gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 15gPolyunsaturated Fat: 8gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 62mgSodium: 852mgFiber: 4gSugar: 4g