i have been experimenting with garlic bread ... this is the best i have yet acheived... further suggestions for improvements would be welcomed (i like garlic a lot)
i use precooked baguettes from the local baker ... apologies quantities are a bit approximate but i'm too lazy to measure things ... also apologies for mixing imperial and metric units - that's just what happens when you're brought up in UK
this should do 2 medium baguettes
1 preheat oven to ~ 150 celcius
2 crush garlic (~5 cloves for 2 medium baguettes) into frying pan
3 fry garlic in a little olive oil for 2-3 mins
4 add butter (a few hundred grams)
5 fry for 1 minute longer - melting all the butter thoroughly
6 take off heat and allow butter to solidify (i usually water cool it and stick it in the freezer for a few minutes - cos i'm impatient)
ok, that's the butter done ... i fry the garlic cos it takes the harshness away a little and sweetens it up
7 now get your baguettes and cut em diagonally into ~ 1 inch high sections
8 put them on a baking tray
9 mix up re-solidified garlic butter
10 smear plenty of garlic butter on top of each slice
11 whack in oven for 5 to 10 minutes until they are a little crisp
if you wanna be posh sprinkle some grate mozarella over them before they go in the oven
bit of black pepper
lovely
