Blessed Vegan Garlic Bread – Cooking Hacks To Up Your Game

Garlic baguette on top of tin foil with a couple of pieces lying on the side; one piece has a bite out of it

Blessed Vegan Garlic Bread – Cooking Hacks To Up Your Game

Garlic butter, clever foil tricks, and a good baguette – this version takes garlic bread from basic to blessed. It’s crisp on the outside, melting in the middle, and deeply aromatic. One of those small upgrades that makes everything else on the plate taste even better.

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Photographed truthfully. If you cook it, yours will look like mine.

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Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

Total Time 35

Course Dinner, Lunch, Side Dish, Snack, Starter

Cuisine Italian-ish Simplicity

Servings people

Calories/Seving 174 kcal

Ingredients

Ingredients for Step 1

60 g butter | unsalted
2 pinches salt
2 units garlic cloves
2 pinches dried oregano

Ingredient for Step 2

50 g baguette | half a standard long baguette

Ingredients for Step 3

15 ml rapeseed oil
2 pinches salt
1 pinch ground black pepper

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven and make the garlic butter

Put a baking sheet onto the middle shelf of the oven, and preheat the oven to 200 °C (392 °F) 220 °C (428 °F)
60 g butter, 2 units garlic cloves, 2 pinches dried oregano, 2 pinches salt
Put the butter in a mixing bowl. Break it up with a fork to soften and to therefore make it easier to add the garlic.
Peel the garlic, and then grate the garlic into the butter. Add the salt and oregano, and then mix thoroughly. When I did this commercially, I made a batch in a food processor and then held the tub in the fridge.

2. Slice the bread and butter it

Slice the half baguette diagonally, with the slices being 1.5cm thick; you want to nearly cut through but not quite (so that the bread holds together!) Cutting the bread diagonally looks nicer.
50 g baguette
Butter each side of each slice. You'll see in the video that I butter one side of each slice, then turn the bread around and butter the other side.

3. Prepare foil

This is when you learn the hack for getting crispy crunchy garlic bread.
Put a sheet of tin foil onto the work surface that is a bit longer than the length of the half baguette. Drizzle half the oil onto the foil along where the baguette will lie. Sprinkle a pinch of salt.
15 ml rapeseed oil, 2 pinches salt, 1 pinch ground black pepper
Place the baguette onto the foil.
Drizzle half the oil onto the foil along where the baguette will lie. Sprinkle a pinch of salt and the pepper.
Check the oven is at the correct temperature. When it is, place the baguette onto the tray that's already been put into the oven.
Cook for 20 minutes.

4. Check

After 20 minutes, slowly open the oven door, bring the baking sheet out, and check that there is colour on the garlic bread. Tip it up so you can see the base. Return to the oven if you think it needs more colour.

5. Serve

Serve inside the foil on a board. You might want to cut through the slices to make it easy for people to get a slice without ripping the baguette apart.

Video

Nutrition

Calories: 174kcalCarbohydrates: 7gProtein: 1gFat: 16gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 6gMonounsaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 2gSodium: 370mgPotassium: 29mgFiber: 0.3gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 0.4IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 0.5mg

Nutritional values are estimates only and will vary depending on specific ingredients used. Nutrition is per serving. Information is for the main recipe, not optional accompaniments.

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