Roasted Garlic Bread

About this Recipe

I remember once in my 20’s being at a University potluck and someone brought homemade garlic bread. They finely chopped the garlic, mixed it up with some butter and then spread it the baguette. They popped it into the over for 20 minutes to heat it all up and served it. All I can say is that I don’t think I got to kiss the cute guy that I was interested in because my breath reeked! Also biting into somewhat cooked garlic is not very pleasant. We were young. We didn’t know any better.

Enter maturity. Enter roasted garlic bread. This roasted garlic bread recipe is best served with a classic Caesar salad recipe and homemade spaghetti and meatballs. The roasted garlic, in my opinion makes all the difference, and takes away that bite of raw garlic. Also it adds that magical flavor that only roasted garlic has.

Grandmother’s Tips for Roasted Garlic Bread:

1. If for some strange reason you do not eat it all, you can save this yummy garlic bread and make super special garlic croutons with this Homemade Crouton Recipe.

2. Two great recipes to make with this roasted garlic bread are a Baked Spaghetti Pie Recipe and this Simple Tomato Mushroom Sauce Recipe.

3. To easily remove garlic smell from your fingers, just use this little tip of rubbing your fingers on the steel of your stainless steel sink. It weirdly works like a charm.

4. If you are like my Grandmother you can also make your own bread. A couple easy recipes for this are this Fluffy Homemade Dinner Roll Recipe and this No-Knead Easy Bread Recipe.

5. If this does not all get eaten, this roasted garlic bread makes wonderful croutons for Caesar salad. Just cut up any leftovers into small cubes and keep in a container with a lid.

6. If you do not use all the butter, you can refrigerate the butter and use for making our Simple Tomato Mushroom Sauce Recipe.

Menu suggestion: This bread pairs perfectly with our Baked Spaghetti Pie Recipe.

7. The garlic bread ingredients call for you to use 2 cloves of garlic but you can add more or less garlic cloves to the butter depending on your preference.


Ingredients

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Makes: One 16inch long baguette

1 16 inch baguette

2 cloves garlic, we used Russian Red

2 Tablespoons freshly chopped parsley

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup butter, at room temperature

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.

2. Wrap the garlic cloves together in tin foil and place the preheated oven to roast for 15 minutes. You can put some extra pieces in with them if you like to use in the next day or two for other recipes. For example in homemade salad dressing.

3. Cut the baguette diagonally in slices about 1-inch thick. Don't cut all the way through.

4. Make the garlic butter.

5. Chop the fresh parsley into tiny pieces.

6. Stir the parsley bits into the room temperature butter.

7. Add 1/2 teaspoon salt and stir in.

8. Unwrap the roasted garlic from the tin foil, cut them open and peel them. The garlic will be a nice soft texture. Put it through a garlic press into the butter. Stir to combine.

9. Spread the butter generously on one side of the bread.

10. You can cut into two pieces or leave as one long loaf. Wrap up in aluminum foil and place into the preheated oven.

11. Bake for 15 minutes. Open the tin foil and if you want it even more crispy bake another 5 minutes with the foil opened.

12. Remove and serve warm.

ENJOY!

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There's nothing quite like the flavour of roasted garlic. Sweet, buttery and smooth, it doesn't really even leave a noticeable odour on your breath either. Okay, well the odour isn't completely gone, but it's not as prominent as when you eat it raw. Making your own garlic bread with roasted garlic takes the delicious bread to a whole new level giving it that amazing, rich, restaurant quality flavour.

Roasting garlic is super easy too and doesn't require a lot of time, you may want to try it for other recipes as well. What is it about garlic that makes your breath smell anyhow? There are compounds in garlic and onions called Alliin that when exposed to air turn to Allisin which change into compounds that contain sulphur called allyl methyl sulphides which give garlic its strong scent.

It turns out there is a type of garlic that is milder and less aromatic called Aglione which won't cause the odour on your breath as much as the more fragrant types. But if you love garlic, then you will probably throw all caution to the wind when enjoying this homemade bread with a delicious roasted garlic spread, as you should. Food is to be enjoyed and savored after all.

With this recipe, you will get not only the flavors of garlic but also the nutrients from garlic as well. Garlic has strong research that indicates it can improve cardiovascular health by the action of reducing blood pressure and also by improving cholesterol in the blood. Garlic also has antioxidant benefits because it supports the activity of glutathione, which is a powerful antioxidant. There is also research to suggest that garlic consumption may help lower fasting blood glucose levels. (1)

References: (1) "4 science-based “superfoods” you should consider eating," Examine.com, published on 24 March 2015, last updated on 9 January 2018, https://examine.com/nutrition/4-science-based-superfoods-you-should-be-eating/



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