Vegan Garlic Bread

It requires simple ingredients and takes less than 1 hour.  

Dough ingredients :

• 4 cups of flour
• 2 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tbsp. baking powder
• 3 tbsp. vegan butter
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 cup of water

Garlic butter ingredients:

• 2 garlic cloves
• 1/2 cup vegan butter
• 1 tsp. basil leaves
• 1 tsp. oregano
• 2 tsp. salt

First, combine the sugar, baking powder, flour, vegan butter and salt in a bowl and mix it a bit. Then, add the 1 1/2 cups of lukewarm water to it and mix well until you obtain a homogeneous and soft dough. Tip: after a bit of mixing, you can very well use your hands to do this and assure the dough is uniform. Cover the bowl with a cloth and let it rest in a warm location for around 15-20 minutes. It should grow a bit in the meantime while you prepare the garlic butter.

Preheat the oven to 150ºC (~300 ºF).

Next, for the garlic butter, in another bowl, mix 2 minced garlic cloves, 1/2 cup of vegan butter, 1 tsp. of finely chopped basil leaves, 1 tsp. oregano and 2 tsp. of salt. Mix the ingredients well until you reach a paste consistency. By then it is ready to spread.

After that, grab, divide and start to mold the dough, so that you first get a somewhat circular flattened base, then spread the garlic butter paste and give it a turn (or roll), closing the dough with the garlic paste inside. Then, you can shape the dough to your own desire per what shape you want to achieve. We decided to divide the dough in four and made four different shaped breads, you can be creative! The next step is to grease a baking tray with some butter, put the garlic bread inside and spreading some more garlic butter paste on top of them, and also sprinkling some dry oregano and basil leaves to finish. Put it in the oven for around 25 minutes or until you see the garlic bread is already with a golden color. After baked, we used the last bit of garlic paste to spread it in the bread  

It is that easy! You’ll end up with some yummy and addicting vegan garlic bread.