Garlic bread is so delicious and can be baked easily by anyone at home either in a regular oven, OTG or even baked a pressure cooker .

Once you have tried your hand in baking this simple bread, you will never go for buying one from fast food outlets .

Recipe :

1/4 cup warm milk
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp instant yeast

3 chopped garlic cloves for adding to dough
1 cup all purpose flour
salt as needed
1/2 tsp oregano powder for dough .

Other ingredients:

2 tbsp melted butter for making the spread
1 tbsp olive oil ( preferred )
1 tsp oregano powder
1 tsp chilli flakes or as required
pinch of pepper powder
chopped coriander leaves ( optional )
grated cheese, mozarella or cheddar or a mix of both about 150 grams
3 tbsp cornmeal to sprinkle on counter while kneading or plain flour .

1. Prepare the Butter garlic and olive oil mixture to spread on the rolled out dough .

2. In a bowl add some 4 tbsp melted butter and olive oil

3. add some oregano powder, chili flakes, pepper powder

4. add some chopped coriander leaves if you have , purely optional,

5. give it a good mix, add a tiny pinch of salt too

6. this is the spread we will use to spread on the rolled out dough .

Method

1. In a bowl add the warm milk, add sugar and yeast
   allow yeast to activate and become frothy , may take about 5 to 10 minutes .meanwhile take another bowl .

2. add the flour, salt , 3 chopped garlic cloves or garlic powder , 1/2 tsp oregano powder.

3. add 1 tbsp olive oil or melted butter,mix well.

4. add the yeast mixture which we set aside for frothing , make a soft dough by kneading well.

5. knead for 3 to 4 minutes till dough is very soft and pliable.

6. coat with oil and keep in a greased bowl, cover with clingwrap,

7. allow the dough to proof or double in volume , may take about 2 hours .

8. do not hurry up this process as the well risen dough will give you excellent result .

9. after an hour or two when the dough appears to have doubled, punch it with your fingers and take it to a

10. counter, sprinkle some flour or cornmeal on the counter.

11. divide the dough into two small balls for making two small garlic breads or roll out one big circle .

12. depending on size of your baking plate in which you will bake .

13. roll out not too thin .

14. Now spread the butter oil garlic mixture which we have prepared , all over the rolled out dough ,

15. sprinkle generously grated cheese on one half of the rolled out dough ( semi circle )

16. sprinkle more oregano and pepper powder if you wish , fold the top to seal the ends,

17. pinch the ends with fingers or use water to seal well .

18. after folding , brush the top with the oil butter mixture that we have prepared .

19. make knife marks for slices , lightly on the folded bread before baking

20. preheat oven to 180 C and bake for 20 minutes or till done when the top looks browned well and cheese starts melting.

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