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Homemade Garlic Bread
If you have some left over pizza dough (see the recipe), try making this delicious garlic bread. It goes great with pizza and coleslaw.
Remember when we were making pizzas, the dough was left to rise in a bowl and then squashed flat and stretched to make a pizza shape. We did this to make the pizza ‘thin and crispy’ – italian style.
For this recipe, the dough is shaped and left to rise on the baking tray. It is then cooked straightaway. This makes the bread fatter and more airy – more like normal bread.
Equipment you will need:
A sharp knife or a garlic crusher
A chopping board
A baking tray
A small pan
A wooden spoon
Ingredients
A ball of pizza dough (about the size of an orange is ideal!)
A bulb of garlic
50 grams of butter
Black pepper
Olive oil or butter to grease the baking tray
What to do
1. Pre heat the oven to 210 degrees centigrade/ Gas mark 7.2. Shape the dough into a rectangle shape. Place the baking tray into a warm – but not hot – place to let the dough rise to twice its size. This should take about half an hour depending on the warmth of the dough.
3. Put the dough into the oven and baked for about ten minutes until it is brown on top. Be careful – it will be hot!
4. Leave it to cool for ten minutes. In the meantime, prepare the garlic, chop it up after you’ve crushed it. Melt the butter over a low heat – you do not want the butter to brown. It just needs to melt.
5. Add the garlic to the melted butter and stir in.
6. Put the bread onto a plate. Using a knife, score the bread four times. (To ‘score’ means to cut into the bread without cutting through it.) This will make cuts in the dough into which the garlic butter will soak.
7. Pour the garlic butter over the bread. If you like, grind some black pepper over the top.
Tasty!
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