Today we’re making some warm homemade garlic bread with freshly toasted slices smothered generously in a drippy, buttery herbed garlic butter. This 5-ingredient recipe uses any Italian or French bread, lots of minced garlic, grated Parmigiano Reggiano or Parmesan cheese and freshly chopped Italian parsley.
For best garlic bread results, the key is to keep the recipe simple and the ratio of butter to garlic just right. We’re using 4-6 cloves of garlic per loaf to load up on that garlicky goodness to pair with your favorite pasta meal. It’s perfect for sopping up any spaghetti or pasta sauce or just for dipping in some marinara. Like these Parmesan garlic knots, garlic bread is a classic side dish to bring to the table for date or pasta night and is really easy to make at home.
Pair it with this cheesy meatball skillet or eggs in purgatory and go nuts dipping into that rustic marinara sauce. Or go with a classic spaghetti meal made with some homemade spaghetti sauce. If you’re planning a special meal or date night, serve it with some fancy lasagna roll ups or spinach and three cheese manicotti. If this sounds tasty, let’s make some garlic bread!
Ciabatta Garlic Bread
Bread – I used a ciabatta loaf but French bread or a crusty baguette will also work. One of the reasons I like ciabatta is because it’s crispy on the outside but chewy on the inside. It also has big holes in the bread layers which is the perfect kind of texture to absorb all that herbed butter garlic goodness.
Garlic – I minced my garlic but you can also grate it for a more pungent flavor. This garlic peeler works wonders for getting the sticky skin off the garlic. Use it on a cutting board so it has some grip when rolling, and roll with the palm of your hand. The skins should come off easily after. PRO TIP – Fresh garlic always works better than the jarred minced kind as it has a better, more pronounced flavor.
Parsley – I used Italian flat leaf parsley but you can also use parsley flakes in a pinch. Italian seasoning will also work if you don’t have any parsley on hand.
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Cheese – Freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano works best but you can substitute it with grated Parmesan cheese. I used a microplane to finely grate a block of cheese. The cheese is to flavor the garlic bread and not to make it super cheesy. For cheesy garlic bread, scroll down to the cheesy garlic bread notes.
Reheating leftovers in the oven – Wrap the garlic bread in foil so it doesn’t dry out, then bake it at 350°F for 10 minutes in the oven. For crispier garlic bread, remove the foil at the last 2 minutes of baking.
Freezing garlic bread – Spread the garlic butter on the unbaked bread halves then freeze them until the garlic butter hardens up. Once the butter is solid, transfer the bread to a freezer-safe ziploc bag or container (slice if needed to make them fit) and freeze for up to 3 months. When ready to bake, transfer the frozen garlic bread slices to a baking sheet and bake according to recipe time and temp until golden brown. If baking from frozen, add about 5 minutes of cooking time.
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Soften the butter so it mixes well and spreads just as easily. It can take anywhere between 30 to 45 minutes for chilled butter to soften to room temperature. If you don’t have a lot of time or forgot to plan ahead, these tricks will help you soften butter quickly. Spread a thick layer of garlic butter on the bread so it melts and permeates into the bread layers rather than just sitting on top.
For softer garlic bread, bake the loaves in foil until the butter has melted. Wrap the two loaves of bread in foil and bake according to the recipe instructions.
The Parmigiano Reggiano or Parmesan cheese in this recipe is for flavoring the garlic bread and not to make it cheesy. To make some cheesy garlic bread with gooey, melty cheese strings, add some good melting cheese before baking.
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You can use any kind of shredded cheese with good melting properties like mozzarella, cheddar, provolone, Colby Jack, or Monterey Jack. Follow the recipe instructions and broil for the last 2 minutes to get a crispy, cheesy top. Serve with some store-bought marinara or homemade marinara sauce for the best flavor.
And that’s about it. Enjoy your homemade garlic bread and let me know how you liked it and what you paired it with in the comments below!
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Great Garlic Bread Recipe
Garlic bread is one of the easiest little appetizers to make, yet I’ve eaten my fair share of greasy, limp garlic bread. Even worse, I’ve had some where the bread had an okay bite, but the garlic was too burned and bitter, leaving an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Have you been there?
This ciabatta garlic bread recipe starts with a simple olive oil sauce made of good extra virgin olive oil, garlic, and herbs. You’ll apply the olive oil sauce to your bread using a brush – this will evenly spread the olive oil on the bread, giving it good flavor and ensuring the best texture, none of that greasy stuff.
And to achieve that “crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside” result we’re all looking for, and without burning the garlic (very important), you’ll first wrap the loaf of bread in foil to bake for the first 10 minutes. Then, you’ll unwrap it to finish baking with the “flesh” side of the bread exposed. (I like to add a sprinkle of parmesan cheese at this point before putting the bread back in the oven, but you can omit the cheese for a vegan option.)
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When you see lightly charred edges on your homemade garlic bread, and bits of the cheese turning a nice golden brown, your bread is ready!
I used a loaf of ciabatta bread (about 1 pound). Traditionally, ciabatta is baked with a hard crust while maintaining a softer texture on the inside. Shaped like a slipper, hence the name ciabatta, it's a sturdy bread that offers a wide, flat surface (wider than French baguette), so it offers more room to spread my herby olive oil, plus the holes in the bread are perfect for catching the bits of garlic and herbs for great flavor.
If you can’t find ciabatta, any rustic long loaf bread or French baguette will still work in this garlic bread recipe. Your baking time may vary a little depending on the bread you choose.
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With just a few ingredients, you can have homemade garlic bread in 20 minutes or so! Here's how you make it (printer-friendly recipe below):
By swapping out parmesan cheese for nutritional yeast, you can easily turn this recipe into vegan garlic bread. Follow the recipe as is, but instead of sprinkling parmesan cheese, sprinkle ½ to 1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast on each half of your ciabatta. Since this garlic bread recipe uses extra virgin olive oil instead of butter, the rest of the recipe stays the same.
Alternatively, since so little cheese is used, you can leave it out altogether. The garlic bread will taste just as rich and flavorful!
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If you want something a little different that is vegan from the get-go, try out my focaccia recipe with garlic and rosemary!
This easy garlic bread recipe is the perfect starter to a comforting Italian dinner like cacio e pepe, spaghetti puttanesca, chicken piccata, scallop pasta or shrimp fra diavolo. By itself, it's great with my homemade spaghetti sauce for dipping.
And if you like, ciabatta garlic bread makes a great vehicle to sop up thick sauces or soups and stews, like Crockpot beef stew, sausage and lentil stew, tomato basil soup.
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Yes, you can freeze garlic bread! In fact, freezing is the best option to store garlic bread long-term. Wrap the bread in foil and place it in freezer-safe zip-top bag for up to 3 months. To reheat, place garlic bread on a baking sheet (directly from the freezer; no need to thaw) and warm in a 375 degrees F heated oven until hot and crispy.
If you know you’ll be finishing up any leftovers within a few days, keep the homemade garlic bread on your kitchen counter. Garlic bread can be kept at room temperature, wrapped in foil, for 2 days. It should not be refrigerated. It sounds counterintuitive, but refrigerating garlic bread dries it out faster and makes it stale.
Easy garlic bread recipe with my no-fail technique for getting a perfectly crunchy outside and chewy inside! This lighter garlic bread uses olive oil
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