"Nino's" Garlic Bread

From the deliciousday youtube channel, this recipe was found at about the same time by 2 family members, both having the thought "we must try this!". So we did. And it was delicious

It's a little different from a standard garlic bread in that the loaf is scored/cut into cubes and the garlic butter spread on top before baking.

Quantity: 1 standard loaf, enough for 4 - 6 people

Prep time: about 30 minutes + rising time 1 hour

Cook time: 15 minutes

Ingredients 

Quantity Ingredient
1 Egg, lightly beaten
20 gm Sugar
4 gm Yeast
3 gm Salt
200 gm Flour
80 ml Milk
30 gm Butter
For the garlic butter topping
15 gm Butter, softened to room temperature
1 Tbsp Egg, lightly beaten (taken from the egg in the main ingredients)
1 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Mayonaise
1 tsp Minced/crushed garlic
some Chopped parsley (optional)
some Grated parmesan cheese (optional)

Method

  1. Lightly beat the egg then reserve 1 Tbsp to use in the topping.
  2. Mix the remaining egg, sugar and yeast together in a largish bowl and leave for about 5 minutes to start bubbling
  3. Add in the flour, salt and milk and mix into a dough. Knead for around 3 minutes
  4. Add the butter to the dough and squish it in until it all absorbs, then knead the dough for another 5 minutes
  5. Put the dough on some baking paper on an oven tray and gently press into a circle about 2 cm thick. Leave for about an hour to rise. It will get slightly higher and spread out a bit 
  6. After the dough has risen, turn on the oven to pre-heat to 170°C 
  7. Gently press the dough to let the air out and flatten slightly 
  8. Cut into 2 cm squares but leave it all connected, so you end up with the circle intact but with squares cut into it. It works better to leave about 1 cm uncut edge all around
  9. In a separate bowl mix together all of the garlic butter topping ingredients except the parmesan, then spread over the dough, pushing it down into the cut marks a bit. In the original recipe they add strips of mozzarella cheese, but I thought that was a bit much. A light grating of parmesan cheese all over works ok if you want to change it up, but it tastes great without it as well
  10. Bake at 170°C for 15 minutes
  11. Serve whole on a board and let people rip cubes off 

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