Garlic Bread
In my opinion garlic bread fits to absolutely every savoury dish, but it goes especially well with pasta or other Italian dishes. There are many, many ways how to prepare garlic bread, but they have one thing in common they are all dead easy and the result is a fantastic side-dish.
Ingredients
- A loaf of Italian or French bread
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2-4 large cloves of garlic, minced (depending on how garlicky you like it)
- 1 tablespoon of freshly chopped parsley
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan or Mozzarella cheese (optional)
Method 1 – Crunchy
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- Mix the butter, garlic and parsley together.
- Cut the bread in half horizontally and spread the garlic butter over the two halves.
- Place in the oven and bake for 10 minutes.
- Remove bread from oven. sprinkle Parmesan or Mozzarella cheese over the bread if you want. Return to oven and grill at highest heat for a couple of minutes, until the bread is nicely toasted and the cheese melted.
- Remove from oven and serve while warm.
Method 2 – Soft
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius.
- Prepare the butter, garlic, parsley mixture.
- Cut the loaf in thick slices but do not go all the way through, just to the bottom crust so you still have a complete piece of bread.
- Put a teaspoon or two of the butter mixture between each slice.
- Wrap the bread in aluminium foil and heat for 15 minutes in the oven.
- Remove from oven and serve while warm.
Tips & Tricks
Watch the bread carefully while toasting, it has a tendency to burn the minute you turn your head.
French or Italian bread works best but brown bread tastes just as fine.
The bread doesn’t have to be the freshest, as you are going to toast it and smoother it in butter. A great way to recycle old loafs.
Instead of the oven the barbecue is a great place for toasting garlic bread.
A few drops of lemon juice in the butter will give it a nice twist. Also try using rosemary or other spices instead of the parsley.
