While baguettes are ideal, garlic bread can be made with your favorite, crusty bread.
As the butter drips from your fingers onto your plate, the smell of garlic wafts through the air as you bite into the warm, crusty bread. All garlic bread experiences should be this sensory, and if you forego the imitation garlic salt sprinkled over buttered rounds of bread route, and instead take a couple of minutes to make your own garlic bread under the broiler, you want be disappointed.
Instructions
1. Adjust the top rack to within approximately six inches of the top heating element.
2. Preheat the broiler.
3. Combine butter, garlic and olive oil in a food processor and pulse until the butter assumes a whipped consistency. If you don't have a food processor, finely mince the garlic and combine it with butter and oil in a small bowl and mix with a fork until the butter is blended.
4. Slice the baguette in half lengthwise and separate the top from the bottom. If the length of the bread will not fit in the dish, cut each piece in half, creating four pieces.
5. Spread the garlic butter on each half of the bread and place in the dish.
6. Sprinkle the buttered bread with parsley.
7. Place the dish in the oven and broil for approximately one to two minutes or until the bread begins to brown slightly at the edges and the butter glistens.
8. Remove the dish immediately from the oven.
9. Slice in 1-inch increments to serve.
Garlic Cheese Bread
10. Adjust the top rack to within approximately six inches of the top heating element.
11. Preheat the broiler.
12. Combine butter, garlic and olive oil in a food processor and pulse until the butter assumes a whipped consistency. If you don't have a food processor, finely mince the garlic and combine it with butter and oil in a small bowl and mix with a fork until the butter is blended.
13. Slice the baguette in half lengthwise and separate the top from the bottom. If the length of the bread will not fit in the dish, cut each piece in half, creating four pieces.
14. Spread the garlic butter on each half of the bread and place in the dish.
15. Sprinkle the buttered bread with parsley and the parmigiano reggiano.
16. Place the dish in the oven and broil for approximately one to two minutes or until the bread begins to brown slightly at the edges and the cheese melts.
17.Remove the dish immediately from the oven.
18. Slice in 1-inch increments to serve.
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