The crispy taste of flavored garlic bread is more delicious than your ordinary bread. This meal rises above the dull taste of plain bread. It leads the way to a spicy quality similar to its origin, the Bruschetta. Bruschetta is a type of toasted bread. When translated in English, it means toast.
People made the bruschetta with garlic, oil, and salt. It also famously consisted of tomato toppings in the past. However, people now make Bruschetta differently. And, we have a civilization to thank for that. Food lovers from all around the world created other variants of the bruschetta. The garlic bread is one of them. Let’s dive into the ingredients!
How To Make Garlic Bread With Regular Bread?
The garlic bread is a quick fix. But you should be deliberate when preparing this meal.
The baguette is the brand of bread used for garlic bread. However, we would teach how you can do it with regular bread. Needless to say, you don’t need a bread maker review for that. You can make garlic bread from regular bread. Do you want to know how? Continue reading.
A CREAMY MIXTURE: BUTTER, OIL, GARLIC, AND PARSLEY.
The next ingredients for this garlic bread are butter. Butter is the glue that holds all ingredients together. If you want to achieve a creamy consistency for the garlic bread spread, you would need butter. There are two types of butter that you can use. They are the salted or unsalted butter.
Salted butter will influence the measurement of the salt used for the spread. Hence, you don’t need to add salt to the spread again. If you would add salt to it, limit it to a pinch of salt. Otherwise, it would be too salty. When it is too salty, you would not appreciate what a tasty meal the garlic bread is.
In other to avoid too much salt in the paste, use unsalted butter. It would help you curb the amount of salt used in the mixture.
A hard butter should be preferably mashed with a whisk. It could also be left to dissolve at room temperature. But you should never soften it via a microwave. When you microwave the hard butter, it will reduce the stocky consistency to a watery cream.
Use oil to keep the bread from drying out while it is toasted. Olive oil remains the best oil choice for the garlic bread paste. But there are no restrictions on the use of other oil types. After all, everyone is allowed to have a preference.
Garlic, on the other hand, is the icing on the cake. There is undoubtedly no garlic bread without the use of garlic. This, it has to be optimally fresh at best. You can combine fresh garlic with the powdered form. It will allow for a more even fusion of the garlic flavor on and in the bread. You can’t achieve this by using the shredded garlic alone. Again, preference should prevail here. The reason is that you can use the different forms of garlic independently.
Minced parsley adds a distinct attractiveness to the bread. It certainly spices up the taste too.
SAY CHEESE!
Cheese is an optional ingredient. But many cheese lovers would consider this best inclusion. A splash of cheese throws in an extra mix of goodness to the bread’s toppings. You could use the cheddar, mozzarella, parmesan, or any type of cheese. Do not include cheese in the mix. Instead, use it to coat the cream. Spread the cream across the bread before coating it with cheese.
GARLIC BREAD COOKING STYLE
Traditionally, the oven is the route to broiling a garlic bread. But another route exists. This other route is the gas cooker low heat method.
THE LOW HEAT METHOD
Prepping the garlic bread for toasting on low heat differs from how you will prep it for toasting in the oven. Use the creamy paste to coat both sides of the bread, one side generously more than the other.
Use a non-stick frypan with a cover for toasting with this method. Set the frypan on a low heat temp until it comes to a moderate warmth. Then, lay the less coated side directly on the pan. Don’t worry! The cream underneath will keep it from burning. The heat from the cooker will melt the spread and allow it to sip into the bread.
Proceed to arrange the bread on the frypan. Then, cover it to hold the garlic’s flavor within the circumference of the pan. After about a minute, when the texture begins to change, open the frypan. Flip the bread and cover the pan again.
It takes about 2-3 minutes for the bread to toast. It would assume a golden brown color once it ready.
THE OVEN BROILER METHOD
Preheat the oven from 200° Celsius to 400° F. Spread the creamy mixture on one side of the bread.
In the same vein, arrange the creamed bread on a non-stick metal baking sheet. Line the baking sheet with an aluminum foil.
Do it to achieve a toasted yet less crunchy feel that still retains the bread’s softness. Wrap the bread with the foil and allow it to bake for 10 minutes.
Whichever method you adopt, the taste is the same.
INGREDIENTS
- 7-9 slices of bread
- 1-2 cup of salted butter
- 1-1/2 tablespoons of shredded parsley
- 3 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 minced clove of garlic and a 1/2 tablespoon of powdered garlic
- grated cheese (optional)
COOKING DIRECTION
Unwrap the salted butter in a mixing bowl containing a measured tablespoon of olive oil. Add both the minced and powdered garlic. Then, add the shredded parsley too.
Judiciously whisk the mixture. Move on to mash the hard butter till it becomes a smooth, creamy consistency.
Smear the triangular sliced bread with the creamy paste. Smear it according to your preferred toasting method. Then, spread cheese over the creamy coated bread.
SERVING
Serve the garlic bread as either a side dish or an entree. Cuisine: American-Italian. Prep: 10minutes. Cooking time: 12mins.
Conclusion
Garlic bread has an endless amount of nutritional benefits. One of these benefits is that it gives the immune system a boost. Since the garlic bread is a quick fix, you can make it occasionally. Remember, a healthy immune system is crucial to fight off diseases, especially covid19.
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