Cheesy garlic pull apart bread
Fluffy and cheesy pull apart bread infused with flavorful herb garlic butter.
Ingredients
- 2½ cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp instant yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cup warm water
- ½ cup salted butter, melted
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp dried parsley
- 10 slices + ½ cup mozzarella cheese
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, add 1 cup of warm water, sugar, all purpose flour, salt, instant yeast and olive oil.
- Knead to make a soft and smooth dough. Apply some oil and let it rest for 2 hours.
- The dough would have doubled by now. Punch the dough and knead for 5 minutes.
- Divide the dough into 20 equal balls.
- Mix melted butter, garlic powder, Italian seasoning and dried parsley in a bowl.
- Coat each dough ball in the garlic herb butter and place them in a greased pan or skillet. Let it rise for 10-15 minutes.
- Place slices of cheese in between two dough balls. Brush some butter on the top.
- Top with shredded cheese as necessary. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 180°C for 20-25 minutes or until golden on top.
- Brush with remaining butter and serve as is or with any sauce of your choice.
Notes
- If you are using active dry yeast, then mix warm water sugar and yeast in a bowl and let it proof for 25 minutes in a warm surrounding to let it proof.
- If your active dry yeast is not bubbly and frothy after 15 minutes, then your yeast is dead. So, repeat whole process again.
- Knead dough to a very smooth and soft consistency.
- Your dough should be elastic.
- The dough will take time to double depending on the climatic conditions.
- After coating the dough ball with garlic herb butter, let it rest in the skillet for sometime for it to rise again.
- Add as much mozzarella as you want.
- To top off the dough before baking, you can also use parmesan instead of mozzarella.