Sourdough Garlic Bread Recipe

Using a butter knife, spread the garlic butter onto the sourdough slices, being generous with the butter.

Sourdough Garlic Bread Recipe

This delicious homemade sourdough garlic bread is the perfect side dish to any Italian meal ... and is in fact a good idea at any time of the day! Use up stale sourdough or bake a loaf especially for this recipe.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American, Italian

Keyword Sourdough Bread

Prep Time 40

Cook Time 20

Total Time 1

Servings Loaves

Calories 80kcal

Ingredients

1 Head of Garlic approx. 5 to 8 cloves
2 Small Sourdough Loaves around 400g per loaf is perfect
240 g Soft Butter unsalted
2 tablespoon Fresh Parsley finely chopped
5 g Salt
40 g Parmesan Cheese shredded

Instructions

Roasting the garlic

Slice the top of the head of garlic off with a sharp knife, exposing the cloves. Pour olive oil and salt over the head of garlic and roast in the oven for around 30 minutes at 200C/392F.
While the garlic is roasting, you can get on with the other steps.

Making the garlic bread

Slice each loaf of sourdough into 1cm thick slices without slicing it all the way through, so the slices are still attached at the bottom.
Into a bowl, add the butter, chopped parsley, salt, 20g of parmesan and cooled roasted garlic.
Use a fork to mash the garlic into the butter until it's all really well combined.
Use a butter knife to spread the roasted garlic butter onto the slices of sourdough bread. Be generous with the butter and make sure there's plenty of butter in each gap - and don't forget to spread a little on top too!
Place each sourdough garlic loaf onto a large sheet of aluminium foil. Sprinkle remaining 20g of parmesan cheese over each loaf and wrap them in aluminium foil.
Place into the oven and bake at 180C/356F for around 15 minutes.
Take the loaves out of the oven, open the foil a little and put back in for around 5 minutes to allow the parmesan to brown and bubble.
When you are ready to serve, take the loaves out of the aluminium foil and sprinkle with chopped chives or more parsley.

Notes

Garlic - for the best results, I recommend using roasted cloves of garlic. If you don't have fresh garlic to roast, you can use minced or crushed garlic from a jar or even garlic powder as a substitute.

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