Garlic Bread Recipe

This homemade garlic bread recipe is crispy outside, soft inside, and slathered with garlic butter. It's quick and easy to make, and pairs well with just about any meal!

Course Appetizer, Bread, Side Dish

Cuisine American, Italian

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 10

Servings servings

Calories 342kcal

Author Faith Gorsky

Ingredients

1/2 cup salted butter at room temperature (see Notes)
4 large cloves garlic crushed
2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley
12 ounces loaf fresh soft Italian or French bread cut in half in the middle and then each half cut in half length-wise (up to 16 ounces is fine)

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425F.
Add the butter, garlic, and parsley to a medium bowl and mix to combine.
Spread the garlic butter on the cut side of each piece of bread.
Place the bread butter-side-up on a large baking tray.
Bake until the bread is crispy along the outside, about 10 minutes. Let it cool briefly, and then cut each piece of bread into 4 pieces (for a total of 16 pieces).
Serve.

Notes

Salted Butter Substitute: If you don’t have salted butter, you can use unsalted butter and add 1/2 teaspoon coarse kosher salt or 1/4 teaspoon regular table salt.
Recipe Yield and Serving Size: This recipe makes 16 pieces of garlic bread, for a total of 8 (2-slice) servings.
Storage: You can store leftover garlic bread wrapped in the fridge for up to 4 days; after that, it can start to get really hard and stale-tasting.
Reheating: My favorite way to reheat garlic bread is in the oven. Preheat the oven to 350F, wrap the bread with foil, put it on a baking tray, and bake until warm, about 10 to 15 minutes. Garlic bread also reheats well in the air fryer! Preheat the air fryer to 350F and air fry until warm, about 2 to 3 minutes.

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