What if I told you that you could have mouthwatering garlic bread in 5 minutes without breaking a sweat?
You won’t have to take my word for it. Try it for yourself!
This is the first recipe in my series of 5-minute recipes for garlic lovers.
Why It Works
When I’m in the mood for my garlic fix, I want garlic bread right away. This recipe cooks the garlic butter in the microwave which cuts down the amount of time from craving to satisfaction. Instead of baking the garlic bread from scratch in the oven, in 5-minutes, you can enjoy your delicious garlic bread.
I designed this recipe around minimalist or small apartments that might not have an oven. If you have a microwave and toaster, you are golden. So you can make this recipe on vacation or even if you live in a studio without a kitchen!
5-Minute Garlic Bread
Ingredients
- 2 slices Bread Fresh crusty bread is the best.
- 2 tablespoon Butter Salted butter tastes better and is less work.
- 1-2 cloves Garlic Fresher the better
- 2 sprigs Cilantro Optional
Instructions
- Collect all the ingredients for the recipe.
- Peel the cloves of garlic. Squeeze the cloves through a garlic press.
- Scrap off all the pressed garlic and put into a microwave-safe bowl.
- Add the butter to the bowl with the garlic.
- Heat the butter in the microwave on high for 30 seconds.
- Stir the garlic into the melting butter. Place a paper towel over the bowl to avoid splattering butter in your microwave. Heat the butter again on high for 30 seconds.
- While waiting for the butter to cool down, toast your bread in the toaster. I like my toast lightly browned but you can toast it on whatever settings you prefer.
- In the meantime, finely chop the cilantro. If you’re skipping the cilantro, then jump straight to step 10.
- Add the cilantro to the garlic butter.
- Using a spatula, spread the garlic butter on your toast.
- Enjoy your 5-minute garlic bread!
No bug, question, comment, or especially typo is too small to share. Email me at anna@garlicdelight.com.
i made this but i only had garlic powder can you please let me know on a recipe of garlic bread with garlic powder?
Hi deja,
Thanks for your message. Did you try the recipe with fresh garlic?
I will test the recipe with garlic powder and let you know how you need to modify it to make it work.
Thanks for your message and happy to hear from you.
Anna
Pretty decent given it takes literally 5 minutes.
My wife made some lovely tomato soup, and requested some garlic bread after the soup had finished.
Followed your recipe to the T and voila, it wasn’t perfect but it definitely managed to quench the need for our garlic fix.
Will try experimenting with some oregano or some other seasonings for some zest.
Hi Shehreyar,
Glad to hear you tried the recipe & it quenched the garlic thirst.
What parts of the recipe did you find to be imperfect and how could I improve the recipe?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Anna
I made it but only had garlic powder so I used that instead of fresh garlic. In the words of my mum “it’s not bad but it’s not great, it kinda looks like apple sauce”
Hi Katie,
Thank you very much for your comment! I really appreciate that you tried to make this recipe. Just curious, did you think it was very good because it was from garlic powder? Or do you think there was something wrong with the recipe? Would love to know how you think it would be improved.
Also, just curious, how did you find this website?
Nice meeting you,
Anna