How to Make The Best Homemade Garlic Bread

This homemade garlic bread is perfectly garlicky, buttery, lightly cheesy, and delicious. It uses fresh garlic that is lightly sauteed before baking for the best possible flavor. There’s no need to buy the garlic bread in the bags when this comes together so quickly and easily, and is so tasty.

You’ll Need:

• 1 Loaf good quality french bread can use whole wheat
• 6-8 tbsp butter softened
• 2 tsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp heaping garlic minced (~4 cloves)
• 1/8-1/4 tsp salt
• Parmesan Cheese to taste
• tsp ~1 dried parsley

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Heat olive oil in small saute pan on stove over medium heat. Add minced garlic and saute until it begins to soften and smell good. DO NOT LET IT BROWN.
3. Mix sauteed garlic with 1/8 tsp salt and 6 tbsp of butter (unless you have a monstrous sized loaf of french bread, then you might need 8 tbsp). If you use unsalted butter you may want to up the salt to 1/4 tsp.
4. Slice bread in half like a giant roll, and spread butter mixture evenly on both sides. Sprinkle with dried parsley and parmesan cheese to your tastes.
5. Put garlic bread back together like a loaf (so the buttered sides are facing each other and the bread is closed).
6. Bake directly on the top rack for ~7 minutes.
7. After 7 minutes, open the garlic bread so the buttered sides of both pieces are facing the top of the oven (under the broiler).
8. Broil bread for about 5 minutes, until beginning to lightly brown and get crispy. Watch EXTREMELY carefully as the garlic bread can easily burn at this point.
9. Remove from oven, slice, and serve hot.

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