Quick Roasted Garlic, Rosemary Bread: Cooking With Courtney

From Feed the Soul:

Bread: It is comforting, happy carbs. It brings people around a table and helps them start a conversation.

This is my favorite dinner bread to serve up on a charcuterie board. It’s a white bread loaf with a delicate crust, flecked with rosemary leaves and exploding with flavor. It’s just as tasty slathered in butter, and dipped in olive oil and balsamic vinegar as it is with a slice of prosciutto and some cheese.

I like my bread to be big on flavor, and this is no exception.

This is very herby and garlicky, and has its fair share of salt. If you are looking for a dinner bread that’s a bit more mild, you can easily reduce the amounts of these ingredients.

As far as bread recipes go, this one is pretty easy. Like all breads, it does require a bit of planning to account for risings, so I would start it at least a couple of hours before you plan to serve.

Serve this up with a hunk of butter, hearty stew, juicy roasted chicken, dinner salad or whatever your heart desires. My pairing of choice: Wine and cheese!

Ingredients and Supplies

Ingredients:

• Water
• Flour (ideally bread flour)
• Fresh rosemary
• Quick-rising dry yeast
• Garlic powder
• Sugar
• Garlic
• Olive oil
• Salt

Supplies:

• Aluminum foil
• Plastic wrap
• Baking stone or pan
• Mixing bowl or stand mixer

Directions

While you’re preheating the oven, you can ready the garlic cloves to be roasted in the oven. You’ll roast the garlic in these cute little foil packets with a bit of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt to enhance the flavor.

When the garlic packets are ready to go, start pulling together the bread. First you’ll combine the yeast, sugar and water, then let the ingredients sit for five minutes as the yeast starts to wake up and get frothy. Next, toss in olive oil, rosemary, garlic powder and salt.

If all goes well, you should be finished roasting the garlic with some time to spare before the bread’s first 30-minute rising is done. Roughly chop the garlic cloves, then knead the garlic into the dough on a floured surface.

Let the bread rise for another 30 minutes before forming into a loaf and baking for about 35 minutes.

Happy bread-baking, friends!

Get the full recipe with complete ingredient information and substitutions, directions and additional photos at feedthesoulblog.com.

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