Easy homemade garlic bread

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I am trying to reduce food waste where I can so I wanted to find a way to use it up. I decided on easy homemade garlic bread and I am so glad that I did! Skip near the end of this post if you want to see a printable recipe card! Also, if you’ve got an air fryer be sure to give my air fryer garlic bread a try!

Recently I decided to bake some bread. This is something I usually do in my bread maker. From time to time I want to make bread the old fashioned way. By hand. This was fine and all, however, even though I set a timer the bread was a little overdone!

I knew that this wasn’t going to be the nicest bread ever for sandwiches, or for my initial purpose which involved it going back in the oven! 

My bread before I almost ruined it:

My bread after I cooked it a little too long. Whoops. Time to turn it into easy homemade garlic bread.

Ingredients for easy homemade garlic bread:

Either use my homemade garlic butter recipe or use:

2 tablespoons of butter or margarine

3 garlic cloves

2 tablespoons of fresh Parsley (1 tablespoon of dried)

Method for easy homemade garlic bread:

This is SO easy.

Slice the bread.

Crush the garlic cloves with a garlic crusher into a microwaveable bowl. Alternatively, slice the cloves. Add the butter. Add the parsley. Microwave in 10-second bursts until melted. In my microwave, 20 seconds was enough.

Spread it on the bread.

Bake for 8 minutes on gas mark 6 (200c)

As you can see it looks yummy! The outside of the bread hasn’t burned any more. This easy homemade garlic bread was a great way to use up a loaf that wasn’t fit for much else. You could make easy homemade garlic bread using stale bread, using soft white rolls or you could even drizzle the sauce over air fryer croutons. Fancy. 

Products I use when making my easy homemade garlic bread – I especially love the OXO garlic crusher!

How to make easy homemade garlic bread:

Note: All calorie information is for demonstration purposes only and is based on the specific uncooked ingredients that I used when creating the recipe.

Like this easy homemade garlic bread recipe? Why not try one of my other easy recipes:

Easy pasta recipe

Cheese scones

Ultimate lazy tuna fishcakes

Homemade croutons

Simple cheese straws

No yeast flatbreads

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