Quick Cheesy Garlic Bread is like the world’s easiest and therefore BEST grilled cheese! Because when you need a cheesy bread fix, we want it now, now, now!
The everyday version of the outrageous Cheese and Garlic Crack Bread, this is the perfect shape for dunking into soups and stews, or serve with a salad to make a meal. Make it once and you’ll memorise it!
Cheesy Garlic Bread: Dangerously quick
This Cheesy Garlic Bread has been pictured repeatedly on my website since the beginning of time. I want to tell you that’s because I’m so addicted to it. Which of course I am – bread, butter, garlic and cheese. It’s a home run right there.
But truthfully, it’s because this food blogger is always scrambling for last second food props when shooting photos and videos, and this Cheesy Garlic Bread is super quick and easy to prepare because it’s made with melted butter instead of softened butter.
Melted garlic butter works better
When I make garlic bread the “normal” way using baguettes sliced almost all the way through then wrapped in foil and baked, softened butter mixed with garlic works much better because it’s easier to smear butter into the slices rather than drizzling.
But for this method when a loaf of bread is split in half OR you use slices of bread, melted butter works much better. The buttery garlic flavour soaks deep into the bread, far better than spreading with softened butter.
How I make this Cheesy Garlic Bread
QUICK is the operative word here: Mix melted butter, salt and garlic. Split loaf in half lengthwise, drizzle with butter. Bake in lowish oven, top with cheese, melt, devour.
Quick ‘n easy way to make ANY meal better.
This is a recipe / method that everyone should memorise and use forever. You don’t need to use my exact quantities, make this your own! Add herbs, parmesan, more garlic, less garlic, chilli 😳, truffle 😱, pesto 😍……
Take soup from great to OMG I could have this every day!! Take a stew from mmmmm to please make this again tomorrow!!!
Serve this with a salad to make a meal.
Or …. you know. Just eat it, as is. – Nagi x
Dunk this Cheesy Garlic Bread in…
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Pumpkin Soup, Lentil Soup or any other non Asian soups
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Beef Stew, Guinness Stew, Chicken Stew, Beef Pot Roast or other stews
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Italian feast! Serve with Spaghetti Bolognese, Shredded Beef Ragu, Baked Ziti, Beef or Vegetable Lasagna
Cheesy Garlic Bread
Watch how to make it
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Quick Cheesy Garlic Bread
Ingredients
- 1 bread loaf approx 30cm/12" long (Note 1)
- 100 g / 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 garlic cloves , minced (~ 3 tsp)
- 2 - 2.5 cups (200 - 250g) mozzarella cheese, grated (Note 2)
- Parsley , for sprinkling (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 160C/320F.
- Mix butter with garlic and salt.
- Cut bread in half horizontally.
- Drizzle with garlic butter all over - don't miss any patches!
- Bake 20 minutes until bread is crispy on the edges.
- Crank oven up to 200C/390F. Top with cheese, bake 7 - 10 min until cheese is melted and bubbly.
Recipe Notes:
Nutrition Information:
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Am I missing something? Video shows melted butter, but method doesn’t say to melt?
Great recipe! As always
I have been making cheese garlic bread for years by slicing the bread and buttering each piece and topping with cheese but slicing the bread lengthwise is much quicker. Why didn’t I realize that before? I use pre-grated cheese that I keep on hand and colby/Jack mixture is one of the ones I use.
Look all I’m gonna say is that after making this, I’ll never eat store bought garlic bread again. It was so so so good!
Lovely again! Thank you so much Nagi for all you do. Had this tonight with your Spaghetti Bolognese, was all delicious!!! Looking forward to the arrival of your Cookbook, cheers.
sorry, meant to place this review on the lentil soup recipe, but we had this with it and its also fantastic
Thanks for the great recipe, Nagi! Had this with the vegetable beef soup and thought it was a really good pairing! The only issue I had making this was that the garlic and salt had gathered on the bottom of the glass measuring jug when I had almost finished spooning out all the butter. Perhaps I hadn’t mixed it properly 🙂 Next time I will first apply melted butter and then manually add the garlic and salt on the bread.
That’s a great idea Anita! N x
So tasty! The perfect accompaniment to your delicious pumpkin soup.
A match made in heaven Kira!! N x
Love bread this way! I ‘goose up’ the flavor by adding the juice of one lemon + 1/2 teas powdered mustard to the garlic and butter…lemon makes it sing!
Thanks for that tip Barbara!! N x
Well, duh! If I had read your perfectly clear directions in the first place, I wouldn’t feel so silly now. Thanks for your inspiration and patience, Nagi!
Making this for Book Club girls this week. Can I do ahead using softened butter instead of melted butter?
I am making this tonight with gruyere instead of Mozzarella and chopped sage (or maybe thyme) instead of parsley. Am drooling at the thought.
Oh yes…Gruyere!!!! N x
what is substitute for oven?
Made this and wow! We will probably never make it any other way. It is absolutely superb and delicious. Thank you.
So much yes!!!! My partner decided last minute that he wanted some garlic bread with your one pan spag bol…. luckily I quickly found this recipe. I didn’t have time to do the full process so I made it under the grill in about 8 mins. I used sourdough. Was pretty epic!!! I can only imagine how good it would be if I followed the proper process!
Made this as a side, as recommended, to my version of your beefy-veg soup. The soup was lapped up, slurped up, and the bread dunked and crunched and chomped all up! I added some chopped fresh basil in the garlic butter to complement the soup flavours, and sprinkled some paprika over the cheese before melting for a bit of a spice kick. The only other change I’d make would be to make more of the garlic butter for drizzling on the bread – but that could be because my loaf of ciabatta was bigger than your recipe envisaged, or else in South Africa we just love our garlic butter!! Thanks for a great recipe idea.
Awesome method for cheesy garlic bread. I added a bit of pepper to the mix and just used some left over hot dog rolls. Thanks for yet another great recipe.
Fantastic. Made this with a ciabatta loaf and bumped up the garlic (cause I love love love garlic). Easy, delicious, and I didn’t want to share.
Hi
I only have crusty rolls at home atm, will they be ok to use?
Yes definitely Abby – Enjoy! N x
Hi Nagi,
I’m a fan!
If I skip the cheese, do I bake it for only 20mins? Thank you.
Hi Sin Yee, yes just cook the initial 20 minutes or until golden on top 🙂 N x