Homemade Garlic Bread

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We have a garlic press (think that's what it's called), you stick a couple of bit of garlic in and it minces it, works great with garlic bread! makes it go a lot further as the garlic comes out much stronger. Also you don't get the big chunks of garlic if you had chopped it up yourself.

Also works with naan breads. We love a garlic naan, and so if you buy the cheap plain naans and do the same it works a treat ..

cheerfulness4

angelavdavis wrote: »

If you pop some bulbs of garlic on a baking tray and into the oven when you are cooking something else some time (or just when the oven is cooling down), they bake. You can then squeeze them out into your butter. The garlic is full of flavour but isn't hot.

Now that's a lovely idea because the garlic will have that wonderfully sweet taste it gets after baking. Must try that.

lofty_cherrytree

Another quick way to make garlic bread is to toast the baguette slices then rub a peeled clove of garlic over (the toast acts as a grater) then drizzle with olive oil.

sarahlsmith22

Hello, I think that might have been my post?

I do the garlic bread with those part cooked baguettes from netto (the ones that look a bit aneamic) as they often have 2 mini baguettes for 39p so I open the packet and cut slices (about 70% through the baguette not all the way through) and pop the homemade garlic butter in each cut) then I freeze them for when we have pizza or lasagne! If you really want to save time you can buy a tube of garlic puree exactly like the tomato puree in a tube although this is a bit more expensive I often do this on a weekday to add garlic to recipes as a quick fix. I am sure the tubes are only £1-£1.30 and they last me ages in the fridge. Just squidge a bit of the puree into the butter (squidge being the technical term:rotfl: )

Sassamac

I was thinking about this yesterday, unfortunately what sparked my thought was buying a twinapck of tesco value garlic bread from the chuckout counter. So hence I dont need to put this into practice yet but at least now I know how to go about it. I tried making once as a student but it was horrible with chopped garlic (not fine enough) so I may try angelas idea otherwise I will have to invest in either a garlic press or some paste or granules (didnt even know they did it in granules actually).

kate83

When you say dried herbs, which do people normally use?? chives or something else

sarahlsmith22

kate83 wrote: »

When you say dried herbs, which do people normally use?? chives or something else

I think chives or parsley would work fine.

Stephen_Leak

kate83 wrote: »

When you say dried herbs, which do people normally use?? chives or something else

I have to confess that I use the mixed dried herbs. I suppose I really should use something Mediterranean, like basil or oregano. OTOH, the mixed herbs probably include them anyway.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

I have to confess that I use the mixed dried herbs. I suppose I really should use something Mediterranean, like basil or oregano. OTOH, the mixed herbs probably include them anyway.

I use dried mixed herbs too (unless I've got any parsley growing on the windowsill or in a pot in the garden, in which case I'll use that)

But the dried mixed stuff definitely works perfectly well I also use fresh garlic and crush it in my garlic crusher (I'm not really a gadgety person but I do like my crusher )

pollyanna24

sarahlsmith22 wrote: »

Hello, I think that might have been my post?

I do the garlic bread with those part cooked baguettes from netto (the ones that look a bit aneamic) as they often have 2 mini baguettes for 39p so I open the packet and cut slices (about 70% through the baguette not all the way through) and pop the homemade garlic butter in each cut) then I freeze them for when we have pizza or lasagne! If you really want to save time you can buy a tube of garlic puree exactly like the tomato puree in a tube although this is a bit more expensive I often do this on a weekday to add garlic to recipes as a quick fix. I am sure the tubes are only £1-£1.30 and they last me ages in the fridge. Just squidge a bit of the puree into the butter (squidge being the technical term:rotfl: )

Lidl have 4 mini baguette/roll things for 39p, not sure if these are the same things though. Think I might give these a bash. We eat quite a bit of garlic bread (Somefield: two for £1) as it's an easy filler if there's not enough food to go round.