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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.
4.50 from 2 votes
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Prep Time 40 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American, Italian
Servings 2 Loaves
Calories 80 kcal

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 tbsp 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.
    Whole head of roasted garlic
  • 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.
    Sourdough Garlic Bread Recipe - slice the loaves while leaving them still attached at the bottom.
  • Into a bowl, add the butter, chopped parsley, salt, 20g of parmesan and cooled roasted garlic.
    Adding parmesan cheese to butter, salt and parsley
  • Use a fork to mash the garlic into the butter until it's all really well combined.
    Roasted garlic being mixed in a bowl with butter, salt, parsley and parmesan cheese
  • 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!
    Using a butter knife, spread the garlic butter onto the sourdough slices, being generous with the butter.
  • 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.
    Wrapping sourdough garlic bread in aluminium foil
  • Place into the oven and bake at 180C/356F for around 15 minutes.
    2 loaves of sourdough garlic bread wrapped in aluminium foil
  • 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.
    Sourdough garlic bread topped with chopped chives

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.

Nutrition

Calories: 80kcalCarbohydrates: 1gProtein: 7gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 14mgSodium: 1292mgPotassium: 41mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 493IUVitamin C: 5mgCalcium: 243mgIron: 1mg
Keyword Sourdough Bread
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