Garlic Baguette

Guaranteed to give you garlic breath.

I have only met a handful of people who have rated garlic bread as 'okay' or 'not that great'. I just don't understand. How can you not love garlic bread?!?

It's the perfect starter, side dish, snack, breakfast, lunch... Garlic bread can be anything you want it to be.

I hadn't made garlic bread before this. However seemed pretty straight forward to me – bread, butter, garlic, and parsley. How hard could it be?!

It's not. It's dead-easy and you'll want to eat the entire loaf.

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INGREDIENTS

5 tbsp lightly salted butter (I use Lurpak)

2 tbsp parsley, chopped

6-7 garlic cloves, chopped finely

2/3 of a baguette

2 tbsp olive oil

Salt

METHOD

1. Leave the butter at room temperature for about an hour before you start making your garlic bread.

2. Preheat the oven to 200ºC fan, and prep the baguette by cutting it through the middle lengthways. You should have two halves of a baguette. Places these baguettes onto a baking tray with greaseproof paper – put aside.

3. Chop up the garlic and parsley into small and fine pieces.

4. In a large bowl, mix butter, olive oil, salt, garlic, and parsley. When well combined, put into the microwave for a maximum of 10 seconds on medium power (not on high!). You don't want to leave it any longer than that as the butter will start to melt and be too liquid-y to put onto the baguette.

5. Using a brush or spoon, spread the garlic butter onto the baguettes evenly. Bake for 12 minutes.

6. Once the garlic baguette is out of the oven, sprinkle a little more salt over them whilst they're still piping hot.

7. Chop into your desired slice sizes and enjoy!