Pizza Garlic Bread
If you've never tried making garlic pizza bread at home you're missing out. This pizza has a crispy and chewy crust with a simple but delicious salty garlic and parsley topping!
Servings: 8
Ingredients
Bread Ingredients
- 10 oz lukewarm water
- 1 ½ tsp granulated sugar
- 2.5 cups all-purpose flour or bread flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 4 tbsp fine ground semolina flour replace with bread flour if preferred
Garlic Topping Ingredients
- 5 tbsp salted butter very soft
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3 cloves of garlic peeled and minced
- 1 cup packed fresh parsley leaves chopped
Instructions
- Place the lukewarm water in a bowl and stir in the yeast and sugar. Leave for 5 minutes until it foams on top.
- Place the flour and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer. Stir together using the dough hook, then slowly pour in the yeast mixture while the mixer is running at a medium speed.
- Continue to knead with the dough hook for another 10 minutes, then scrape the mixture into a large oiled bowl (it will be sticky). Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm room for 45-60 minutes until it doubles in size.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Place two large metal baking sheets in the oven to heat up.
- Once the dough has risen, scrape it out onto a well-floured surface. Split the dough into two portions and lightly knead to knock out the air. Form the dough into two balls and let them rest for 5 minutes (you can leave for up to 15 minutes, but cover with plastic wrap if leaving for longer than 5 minutes).
- Mix together the garlic topping ingredients in a small bowl.
- After 5 minutes, dust both of the dough balls well with semolina and stretch out to form a rough pizza shape.
- Take the hot baking sheets out of the oven and spray or brush with a little oil.
- Place one pizza on each baking sheet (I fold the dough over my arm to move it). Don't worry if it wrinkles and looks a bit messy on the tray, it will smooth out during cooking. Stretch out a little more once on the tray if needed.
- Spoon the garlic butter onto the pizza breads and use the back of a spoon or a brush to smooth the butter all over - right up to the edges.
- Place in the oven and cook for 7-10 minutes until golden brown. Serve immediately.