Crispy garlic cheese bread is a delicious side dish for your soups. It makes even the blandest soup delightful. You can also enjoy it as a vegetarian snack.
I love soups and my favorite thing to enjoy with it is garlic cheese bread. It's soft and cheesy at the center and has crispy edges.
This cheesy garlic bread can be paired with any soup or salad. It makes even the blandest soup taste awesome.
Imagine dipping a crispy garlic cheese breadstick in a bowl of soup and taking a bite- don't you feel hungry? Just typing this sentence has made me very hungry.
The best thing is that it's very easy to make, gets ready within a few minutes, and needs only a handful of pantry staples.
So right after finishing this post, I will go to the kitchen and bake some garlic cheese bread. You just need to make a buttery, cheesy, garlicky spread, apply it on the bread slices and bake.
You don't necessarily need to serve it with soup. It can also be enjoyed as an appetizer with or without a dipping sauce.
Recipe tips, tricks, and variation suggestions
- I have used only grated mozzarella but any melting cheese or a combination of different melting cheeses can also be used in the recipe.
- If you don't like cilantro, skip it or replace it with a fresh herb like parsley.
- A combination of different dried herbs can also be added to the butter.
- I have used normal brown bread slices in this recipe, you can use any bread of your choice.
- Be careful with the amount of salt, if using salted butter as the cheese will also be slightly salty.
- I prefer my garlic cheese bread to be very crisp and crunchy. So, I bake it for 14-15 minutes at 200°C. Adjust the baking time depending on how crisp you want your garlic cheese bread to be.
Some delicious soups to serve with Garlic Cheese toast
Though garlic cheese can be enjoyed as an appetizer, it tastes the best with soup. You can check the recipes of some of my favorite soups below:
- Vegan Minestrone Soup
- Carrot ginger soup
- Spiced sweet potato and chickpea soup
- Red lentil soup
- Green peas soup
- Roasted tomato and quinoa soup
- Mushroom potato soup
- Vegetarian potato soup
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Recipe
Crispy garlic cheese toast
Equipment
- 1 mixing bowl
- 1 Spoon
- 1 Knife to spread butter
- baking tray
- Oven
- Knife to chop cilantro
Ingredients
- 5 slices bread
- 5 tablespoons grated mozzarella cheese
- ¼ cup softened butter salted
- 2-3 large garlic cloves minced
- ½ cup chopped cilantro
- ½ teaspoon red chili flakes
- Ground black pepper to taste
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix butter, cheese, chopped cilantro, minced garlic, red chili flakes, ground black pepper, and salt to make a smooth spread.
- Spread the butter mix on each bread slice.
- Place the buttered bread slices on a baking tray lined with a baking sheet.
- Bake in a preheated oven for 8-10 minutes at 180°C (or, 350℉) until the cheese melts and starts getting brown patches.
Notes
- Both slated and unsalted butter are fine to be used. If using salted butter, add extra salt carefully.
- Adding cilantro is optional, you may skip it too or replace it with your choice of herbs.
- You may add other ingredients like boiled corn kernels, sauteed mushrooms, etc to the butter.
- Feel free to use any melting cheese of your choice. I have mixed cheddar and mozzarella cheese.
- You may change the baking time depending on how crisp you like your cheese toast.
- More recipe tips and tricks are shared in the post above, please follow them to make this recipe.
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