Name any Italian dish, and garlic bread goes with it. Name any saucy dish, and garlic bread still goes with it. You gotta learn how to make it at home, boos! My easy garlic bread recipe starts with minced garlic mixed into softened butter with parsley and garlic powder, spread all over a baguette. It bakes up like a dream y’all! Crisp, golden, and addictive. Get into it.
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How to Make Garlic Bread
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1. Add all the garlic butter ingredients to a medium bowl
Mix until smooth and well combined.
2. Slice the bread half lengthwise and spread the garlic butter
Be generous!
3. Place the bread in the oven and bake
Bake until the edges are crisp and the top is golden brown.
4. Cut your garlic bread into slices
Serve warm.
PRO TIP: If you want to brown the top even more, turn your broiler on for 1-2 minutes, but watch carefully so your bread doesn’t burn!
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Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 baguette
- 1/2 cup salted butter room temperature (1 stick)
- 4 tsp garlic minced
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp parsley chopped
- 1/2 tsp olive oil
- 1/2 cup parmesan optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cut bread roll in half lengthwise.
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together butter, minced garlic, garlic powder, parsley, olive oil and parmesan cheese if using until well combined.
- Liberally spread garlic butter mixture on each half of bread.
- Bake bread for 10-14 minutes or until bread is crisp and top is golden brown.
- Cut bread into slices and serve.
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Notes
How to Store
- Fridge: You have leftovers? I’m impressed, boo! Let the garlic bread cool completely first. Then wrap it tightly in plastic wrap or foil, or place it in an airtight container. It will keep in the fridge for up to 3 days.
- Freezer: You can freeze garlic bread before or after baking. For unbaked bread, spread on the garlic butter, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, and freeze up to 3 months. For baked bread, wrap slices well and freeze up to 2 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight before reheating.
- Reheating: Warm it in a 350°F oven for 10-15 minutes until heated through and crisp again. For a quick fix, wrap a slice in a damp paper towel and microwave for about 20 seconds.
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Recipe Tips
- Grab a crusty loaf from the bakery section. I always use baguettes, but Italian bread, French bread, and ciabatta also get nice and crisp in the oven.
- Use fresh garlic. Do not, I repeat, do NOT use jarlic. It’s packed with preservatives and lacks that bold, fresh flavor. Grab a bulb and mince it yourself, boos!
- Mince it fine. Big chunks of garlic can be too much for chewing. Chop it down real fine so it melts right into the butter.
- Soften the butter. Room temp butter blends everything together smoothly.
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Recipe Help
Y’all gotta make sure you bake it long enough so it gets crispy. Check to make sure the bread is super toasty on the sides and golden brown on top before removing from the oven.
For sure boos! Just assemble the bread with the butter spread, wrap super well and pop in the fridge or freezer. Follow the rest of the baking instructions when you are ready to bake. It will need to bake a bit longer if you are baking from frozen however.
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It’s great to have a good recipe for garlic bread, Jocelyn. I’ll let you into a secret. I don’t like neat butter, but I can eat it on garlic bread for some reason. Your pictures have really captured how delicious it is!
Hahahah that is such an awesome secret Helen! I think I think I need garlic bread now!
I think the simplest recipes are the absolute best, and you don’t get any simpler than garlic bread! I loveeeeeeeee this, Jocelyn! Pinned!
Agreed Justine and thanks so much for the pin dear!
We love eating garlic bread with our pasta dinners. This bread looks SO good!
Thanks so much Marcie! I am the same way!!
Yum!! My husband has Celiac so we have to follow a gluten free diet, but I recently found some gluten free baguettes, and I have been thinking of all the things I can try with them. Definitely making this our next pasta night!
Oh that sounds awesome! I think I might need to try those gluten free baguettes as well!
I love that you would hide the loaf in your mom’s grocery cart… I totally did that with my favorite foods, too (though, shamefully, mine were more of the Chips Ahoy cookie and Froot Loops cereal variety ;)). This bread looks scrumptious — making soon!
Haha yes I was such a sneaky little girl right? Thanks so much Stephanie!
I have to try your easy garlic bread, Jocelyn – so much easier than my homemade version haha. This is a great side when you put all the time and energy into the main dish!
Yes I totally pull this out when I seriously don’t have time to devote to the sides haha.
There is nothing like homemade garlic bread! So buttery and delicious!
Agreed Ashley! Totally agreed!
I love homemade garlic bread, so buttery and delicious and yours looks like its full of garlicky flavour. Yum
Thanks so much Rochelle!
How many slices does this makes?
It really depends on the length of the bread and the slices you make so its hard to give a true estimate.
Yeah girl, homemade garlic bread is the bomb! I love it from the bakery but nothing beats homemade. I think it is partially mental. Everything tastes better when you put love it to it!
But don’t get me wrong. That Texas Toast from the box is pretty darn delicious too… Haha.
Ha good point. I loved that texas toast for years hahaha!
I’ve never made homemade garlic bread before, but now I NEED to!
Yes it is so easy and you won’t regret it Chloe!!