Garlic Bread

 A healthy any time snack. 

Ingredients:

• Maida - ½ cup
• Wheat flour - ½ cup
• Dry yeast - 1 tbsp
• Sugar - 1 tbsp
• Salt - as required
• Olive oil - 2 tbsp
• Butter - 4 tbsp (melted)
• Garlic cloves - 8 to 10 (peeled and grated)
• Oregano sprinkles
• Chilly flakes
• Warm water - 1 glass ±

Method:

Add dry yeast and sugar in quarter cup water in a bowl. Set it aside for 10 minutes to activate.

Making garlic sauce-

• Put butter in a small round bottom frying pan and heat on low flame until the butter melts. Turn off flume.
• Add grated garlic, chilly flakes and Oregano sprinkles to the melted butter. Mix this well.

Preparing the dough-

• A layer of white froth indicates that sugar-yeast solution is ready.
• Add maida, wheat flour, half of spiced melted butter and salt to sugar-yeast solution and knead it well. Add extra warm water if required and knead until it attains chapati-dough consistency.
• Smear olive oil over the dough surface and cover the bowl. Set aside for 2 hours.

Making the bread-

• Check the dough after 2 hours. It should have raised to double the original size. Knead the dough again.
• Take an aluminum high-sided rectangular or square baking tray. Dust it with corn flour.
• Place the dough into the tray and shape it.
• Brush the dough surface with beaten egg (or milk) and cover it. Set aside for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes the dough would've risen. With a sharp straight edge knife and make shallow grooves on the top surface so that you get a checkered or diamond pattern.
• Place the tray in a preheated oven and bake at 180° C for 10 minutes and take it out.
• With the same knife deepen the grooves. Spread the remaining half spiced melted butter on the top surface including the grooves.
• To make garlic cheese bread, spread the remaining spiced melted butter and place grated cheese shreds into the grooves.
• Place the tray in the oven and bake at 180° C for 15 minutes.
• You will see a change in color and get the aroma of garlic.
• Switch off oven and remove the bread from the oven. Set aside for five minutes.
• Brush the bun surfaces with melted butter (this is optional).
• Garlic bread is ready.

This bread can be had hot, warm or cold. Remains good for a maximum of two days.

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