This oven baked Garlic Cheese Bread is an easy to prepare, quick and supremely scrumptious snack. A recipe which only includes bread, butter, garlic, herbs, lots of cheese, and can be customized in so many ways. A sure shot winner recipe!

Recipe Snapshot

  • Prep time: 9 minutes
  • Cook time: 6 minutes
  • Total time: 15 minutes
  • Yield: 3
  • Category: Appetizers
  • Cuisine: World

Ingredients

  • 4 to 5 slices bread (or half a loaf of bread. you can use whole wheat or brown or multi grain or white bread)
  • 2 tablespoon butter (salted or unsalted)
  • 3 to 4 garlic cloves (- medium sized. peeled, minced or grated or finely crushed)
  • 100 grams mozzarella cheese (or ½ cup grated cheese - processed or cheddar or mozzarella cheese or a mix of two to three cheese)
  • ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper (or add as required)
  • ¼ teaspoon red chili flakes (or add as required)
  • ½ teaspoon dry oregano (or any dried herbs, add as required)
  • salt (- as required and only to be added if using unsalted butter)

Method

Preparation

  1. Preheat oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees C/392 degrees F before baking.
  2. Slice the loaf of bread in slices having 0.75 inches width. Now halve each slice.
  3. Take the softened butter (butter at room temperature) in a bowl. I used salted butter. If using unsalted butter, then add a bit of salt.
  4. Grate or mince 3 to 4 medium peeled garlic cloves directly into the softened butter. Instead of garlic, you can also add garlic chives.
  5. Mix the grated garlic very well with the butter.
  6. Grate cheddar or mozzarella cheese. You will need about ½ cup of grated cheese.

Making Garlic Cheese Bread

  1. Now spread the garlic butter evenly on all the slices.
  2. Top with the cheese generously.
  3. Sprinkle with your favorite herb or spice. You can add oregano, basil, red chili flakes, black pepper, Italian seasoning etc.
  4. Place the bread slices in a baking tray.

Baking Garlic Cheese Toast

  1. Now keep the baking tray on the top most rack of your oven. If using a microwave oven in the convection mode, then keep the baking tray on the glass turn table.
  2. Bake at 200 degrees C/392 degrees F for 5 to 6 minutes or till the edges become a light golden and a bit crisp.
  3. The cheese will also melt. You don't need to toast these slices.
  4. Serve these Garlic Cheese Bread hot with tomato ketchup as a starter or as as a snack.

Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note

Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.