Soft easy garlic bread recipe with pesto done in no time.
This recipe is super simple and tastes amazing. Eat with soup, as a starter or with dinner. So if you are expecting guests, eating soup or craving bread, make this recipe. Ready to learn how you can make this easy garlic bread? Let’s get started!
When we go out to eat we always get some bread as a starter. But strangely enough, we never get garlic bread of any kind.
If we are lucky we get some garlic butter on the side but for some reason, we never get crusty garlic bread.
If you try this recipe you will see that this is a missed opportunity because this recipe is easy, tasty, crunchy and delicious.
With only three ingredients. This garlic bread is of the kind that wants to keep around at all times.
Prepare it, store it in the freezer and take it out when you get unexpected guests.
You can make your own baguette but allow me to share a secret. Make this garlic bread with pesto and the cheapest baguette you can find.
Preferably a soft pre-baked French bread. Opposed to the cheesy crack bread that required a crusty bread you now need a soft baguette.
It will allow the ingredients to be absorbed by the bread and get a crunchy crust.
Garlic bread ingredients
To make this garlic bread requires a limited amount of ingredients. You need to buy:
- Butter
- Arugula Pesto
- Garlic
- Baguette
How to make garlic bread
To make this recipe the main ingredient is the pesto butter. Homemade pesto butter because you can make basil pesto or vegan arugula pesto in no time.
It also tastes better so why bother to buy this in the store. Take you unsalted butter out of the fridge so it can go a little soft and is workable.
Put about 3 to 4 tablespoons of butter in a small bowl. Work it with a spoon to get soft butter before you add a big tablespoon of homemade pesto.
Now combine the butter and fresh garlic until you get smooth garlic butter. Add some salt and pepper to taste.
Preheat the oven at 450℉/200℃. Take the soft baguette and cut it in thick slices of about 4 inches/ 2 cm slices but not all the way through.
Then spread the garlic butter in between the sliced bread. Finish with some garlic butter on top.
Wrap the baguette with some tin foil and bake in the oven for 15 minutes on a baking sheet.
Open the tin foil and let it back for a couple of minutes to get crunchy bread and golden brown.
Remove the foil and add some of the remaining butter mixtures on the warm bread. Serve your homemade garlic bread immediately.
Garlic bread ingredient options
This bread is great just as it is but you can easily add the following ingredients:
- Basil pesto – instead of arugula pesto you can add some basil pesto
- Garlic and parsley – Mince the garlic and stir it through butter with a tablespoon of parsley
- Mozzarella cheese – just like with the crack bread you can also add some shredded mozzarella or Gouda cheese between the bread slices
- Tapenade – add some rustic olive tapenade to the butter
- Sun-dried tomatoes – cut in small pieces and add it to the garlic butter
Want to see how you can make homemade pesto
This recipe definitely calls for a great homemade pesto. Want to see how you can easily make pesto yourself?
Take a look at the instruction video with a step by step instruction so you can follow along.
Have fun making this garlic bread recipe!
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Garlic bread with pesto
This is a super easy garlic bread recipe with a secret ingredient. Take some fresh butter and baguette and turn it in to heavenly bread. Take a look!
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 tbsp pesto
- 1 garlic clove mince
- 1 soft baguette
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200℃
- Mix the butter, minced garlic and arugula pesto into a soft butter. Season with salt and pepper to taste
- Cut the soft bread almost all the way through into 4 inch/2cm slices
- Smear garlic butter in between the slices
- Smear some butter on top the baguette. Then wrap the bread in foil
- Bake for 15 minutes until the crust is crispy. Open de foil and let it stay in the oven for 3 more minutes
- Serve immediatel
Nutrition facts
Calories: 42; Fat: 3.4g; Carbs: 2.2g; Protein: 0.6g;
1 Comment
Rose Martine
January 27, 2020 at 11:35 amYou are AMAZING! Thank you thank you thank you so much for this. I was considering doing the same thing and you’ve just made the task a lot less daunting.