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It has everything soft chewy bread on the inside with sharp garlic and cheese, cheese, and more cheese! Eat it as a side dish with a bowl of soup or as a starter. Take a bite of this crispy pull-apart garlic bread that is warm and soft on the inside. You will make it every time. So, are you ready to learn how to make homemade cheesy garlic bread? Let’s get started!
What You Need For This Recipe
To make this cheesy garlic bread you need just a couple of ingredients. Put them on your grocery shopping list and have them ready when you start:
- Bread – crusty white bread or stale bread. You can even use slices or buns
- Cheese – you need shredded hard mozzarella and parmesan
- Butter – use unsalted butter
- Garlic – fresh garlic
- Fresh parsley – finely chopped
How To Make Garlic Bread With Cheese
- Start this recipe with garlic butter. Let the butter go soft and crush the garlic in a pestle and mortar. Then mince the fresh parsley.
- Then add the garlic and finely chopped parsley to the butter. Stir the garlic and parsley until you have well-combined butter.
- Cut the loaf of bread in half, length way, and spread the garlic butter on the inside of the bread. Preheat the oven to 350℉/175℃.
- Put the halved bread on a baking tray buttered side up. Bake the bread in the middle of the oven for 15 minutes.
- Take the bread out of the oven.
- Turn the oven to broil. First, sprinkle the parmesan on the bread. Then cover all of the bread with the hard mozzarella including the edges.
- Return the baking tray under the broiler for 4-5 minutes or until the cheese is bubbling and has brown patches.
- Sprinkle some finely chopped fresh parsley on top and serve straight away.
Delicious Cheesy Garlic Bread
This is the greatest garlic bread you ever tried. It is even better than any garlic bread you have eaten in a restaurant.
Why? Because it is the perfect mix of several individual parts. You can make this recipe with freshly baked bread or use stale bread so you do not have to waste it. It is a very simple recipe that everyone can make.
It works perfectly as a side dish with your soup or salads.
Garlic Bread Secrets
Let me tell you some simple garlic bread secrets:
- Fresh bread – garlic bread should be made using fresh bread. This may be obvious but I can’t count the number of times we got old stale bread in a restaurant they tried to revive in the oven
- Fresh butter – the same applies to garlic butter. Get fresh butter and let it go soft outside of the fridge
- Crushed garlic – when using garlic do not mince it with a knife but crush the garlic with a pestle and mortar. This will release some oil but also take away the sharpness of the garlic
- Cheese mix – use a mix of cheese like mozzarella and parmesan that work together perfectly. The Mozzarella will go soft and bubbly with the parmesan adding some salty taste
- Bake and broil – you not only bake the bread in the oven but you also put the bread under the broiler
See How to Make Garlic Bread
Want to see how to make this easy cheese garlic bread yourself? Then watch the instructional video in the recipe card so you can follow the step-by-step instructions.
It shows how easy it is to make this side dish recipe.
How To Store Garlic Bread With Cheese
You have several ways to store leftover cheesy garlic bread. Let the bread cool completely before storing it:
- Room temperature – you can keep this bread at room temperature. Put it in an airtight food container or plastic bag. Store it in a bread box for 2 to 3 days
- Freezer – want to keep it longer you can freeze this bread. Slice it first so you can take out what you need and keep the remaining bread in the freezer. Store the bread in a freezer-friendly food container or a resealable bag. You can store it for up to 3 months
How To Reheat Cheesy Garlic Bread
You have several ways to reheat leftover garlic bread with cheese:
- Oven – preheat the oven to 325℉/160℃ and in the meantime wrap the leftover bread in aluminum foil. Put it in the middle of the oven and heat for 5 to 7 minutes. Remove the foil and heat for 1 more minute
- Air Fryer – preheat the Air Fryer to 300℉/150℃ for 3 minutes and wrap the bread in foil. Heat for 3 to 4 minutes and 1 minute uncovered
- Microwave – heat the bread for 30 seconds and check to see if the bread is warm. Do not overheat else you will get hard bread
Serve Garlic Bread With
You can eat this garlic bread all by itself and have a great meal. Fortunately, there are a lot of recipes you can eat this bread with:
- Mexican bean soup
- Mexican chicken soup
- Mexican meatball soup
- Cauliflower soup
- Oven-roasted tomato salsa
- Vegan lentil curry
I hope you love this bread recipe as much as I do. Try this cheesy garlic bread.
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Cheesy Garlic Bread
The best homemade cheesy garlic bread. With lots of mozzarella and parmesan, it's crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Ingredients
- 1 fresh loaf of white bread
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 garlic clove crushed
- 1 tsp fresh parsley
- 1 cup shredded hard mozzarella
- ⅓ cup grated parmesan
Instructions
- Combine the soft butter with crushed (pestle and mortar) garlic and parsley. Stir until a well-combined butter appears
- Cut bread in half lengthways and spread the butter on the inside of the bread
- Preheat oven at 350℉/175℃ and bake the bread in the oven for 15 minutes
- Take the bread out of the oven and turn the oven to broil
- First, sprinkle the grated parmesan on the bread. Then cover the bread with the hard shredded mozzarella including the edges
- Put the bread under the broiler for 4-5 minutes or until the cheese is bubbling and has brown patches Sprinkle some finely chopped fresh parsley on top
- Ready to serve
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Nutrition facts
Calories: 192; Fat: 12g; Carbs: 16g; Protein: 6.6g;
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