Easy Garlic Bread in Oven

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Craving for a delicious garlic bread you can make quickly at home, and know it's free from nasties? Here is how an Italian would make it.

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 10

Total Time 25

Course Side Dish

Cuisine Italian

Servings 2

Calories 530 kcal

2 medium plain baguettes
3 cloves garlic
2 tbsp Belmorso Novello Extra Virgin Olive Oil or Belmorso EVOO, if it's not Novello season
fresh parsley a tablespoon
Italian mixed herbs
15 gr grated Parmesan cheese
15 gr grated Pecorino cheese
optional butter or other cheese like Asiago
optional Italian sausage - 1 piece

Create some cuts on the top of your baguette, sideways. They have to be deep enough to be able to fill them, without breaking the bread.
Mince the garlic, with a knife or a garlic presser. Add to a small bowl.
Add 2 tablespoons of Novello or Belmorso EVOO in that same bowl and mix.
Add a dash of Italian mixed herbs, and mix again.
Grate the cheeses, if you didn't buy pre-grated. You can mix them.
Pre-heat the oven at 180 degrees Celsius.
Fill the openings in each baguette with a drizzle of that garlic EVOO you made.
Then top with the fresh parsley.
Then finish with the mixed grated cheeses.
Bake in the oven for 5 to 10 minutes, depending how crispy and brown you want your garlic bread to be. I am using a circulating grill program, and only leaving them for 7 mins max.
Optional 1: If you'd like to, you can add the chopped Italian sausage pieces. You can pre-cook them in advance, or make sure you are using a fresh high quality type that can be eaten almost raw. It also depends on whether you like it. I grew up eating fresh sausage raw, but it must be really fresh and high quality, so it doesn't make you sick.
Optional 2: If you'd like to add butter to your garlic bread in oven, you could do it after the parsley and before the cheeses.

The calories above do not include the optional butter or sausage.

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