Do You Like Your Garlic Bread Soft or Crispy ? With This Recipe, You Can Have Both (2024)

FAQs

How do you soften crispy garlic bread? ›

In the oven: Preheat oven to 200° or Warm setting. Wrap the bread in a damp (not soaking) towel, place on a baking sheet, and pop it in the oven for 5-10 minutes. In the microwave: Wrap the bread in a damp (not soaking) towel, place it on a microwave-safe dish, and microwave on high for 10 seconds.

Serve garlic bread for a comforting starter or side. Whether plain or cheesy, it's a great accompaniment for lasagne, chilli con carne, salad, soups and more.

You want to make sure the butter has melted and seeped into the bread a little bit. If you don't like your bread too crunchy, remove it from the oven a little but earlier. If you're a crunchy garlic bread fan like me, you want to leave it in the oven until the edges of the bread turn golden brown.

The best way to brown and crisp your bread's bottom crust – as well as enhance its rise – is to bake it on a preheated pizza stone or baking steel. The stone or steel, super-hot from your oven's heat, delivers a jolt of that heat to the loaf, causing it to rise quickly.

Garlic bread is an incredibly delicious and flavorful combination of butter, garlic, and bread. The combination of butter and garlic creates a unique flavor that is both savory and slightly sweet. The butter helps to bring out the garlic and the bread is the perfect vehicle for the combination.

Garlic bread is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. The crispy crust gives way to the soft, fluffy bread, creating a delicious contrast in textures. The crunchiness also helps to cut through the richness of the garlic and cheese, making it more palatable.

Problem: Garlic bread is often soggy, with too much raw garlic flavor. Goal: Crisp garlic bread, with sweet, nutty garlic flavor. Solution: Toast whole garlic cloves for optimal flavor, add a bit of Parmesan cheese, and slice the loaf of bread horizontally.

By baking the bread in foil for the first 10 minutes, you allow the ciabatta to soften, which will give you a pillowy, chewy inside. Wrapping the bread also keeps the garlic from burning. Unwrapping the bread and baking it more adds color and will crisp up the crust for the perfect crunchy outside.

How do you keep garlic crispy? ›

Then “you want to get all the excess oil off of the garlic, as quickly as possible,” Simeon says, by immediately straining the cooked garlic through a tea strainer or fine-mesh sieve held over a bowl. This helps keep the garlic extra crispy.

Ingredient notes. French bread: I prefer the light, soft crumb and crusty exterior of a French loaf for Garlic Bread, but if you can only find Italian bread, that will work just fine. Butter: Cold butter usually softens up in about 30 minutes when left out at room temperature.

How to Reheat. OVEN: Wrap leftover Garlic Bread in foil and place on a baking sheet - you can do this whether it's sliced or a whole loaf. If the bread is sliced, keep it in a single layer in the foil. Bake at 350 degrees F until warmed through, about 10 to 15 minutes.