Easy Herb Garlic Pull Apart Bread From Scratch
Pull-Apart Bread with Herb Garlic Butter is a delicious combination of savoury goodness you can’t resist. It has a deliciously crunchy crust and is moist and soft inside. As the name says, it’s easy to split the bread and enjoy it as it is.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1¼ cup milk ( ¼ cup lukewarm milk for blooming yeast )
- 1½ teaspoon instant yeast
- 2 teaspoon sugar ( add 1 teaspoon in milk for blooming yeast and 1 teaspoon in the flour mixture )
- ½ teaspoon salt
For making herb garlic butter
- 3 tablespoon unsalted butter ( softened butter )
- 10 cloves garlic cloves ( chopped )
- 3 sprigs mint leaves
Instructions
- Firstly, before starting to make the bread, activate the yeast. Add lukewarm milk to a bowl with measured sugar and yeast. Wait for ten minutes. A healthy, activated yeast will pop to the top and bubble as in the picture. Do not skip this.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook, add all-purpose flour, sugar, and salt and mix with a spatula. To it, add the bloomed yeast and mix on medium speed until it mixes well.
- Then add 1 cup of whole milk to the flour mixture and run the stand mixer for five to six minutes. Now switch off the power. Scrape the dough from all sides until the dough mixture combines well.
- Add a teaspoon of unsalted room-temperature butter and start kneading on high speed for four to five minutes.
- If you can stretch the dough without it breaking, that means the gluten is well developed and your dough is ready to use.
- Place the dough in a well-greased bowl and grease the top, and cover it with a kitchen towel or cling wrap and let it prove. It almost takes one and a half hours to two hours until it rises double in size.
- Chop garlic into small pieces and add chopped mint. Now add salt and soft butter and mix well to a spread consistency. Keep it aside.
- Allow the dough to rise for 11/2 to 2 hours or until it double in size. Punch down the dough to deflate the air.
- Transfer the risen dough onto the dusted silicon mat or a clean kitchen counter.
- Roll the dough flat to a rectangle or square shape to the width size of the loaf tin. Just place the loaf tin as shown in the picture. Now spread the herb garlic butter throughout the dough.
- Roll the herb garlic butter-smeared dough gently to a log shape and seal well. Cut the log into equal slices as shown.
- Stack the cut slices into the loaf tin tightly. Cover the pan for a second rise until it rises doubled in size.
- After the second proof, apply milk wash to the top layer.
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Bake for 30 minutes (I baked in Microwave Convection mode), then remove the loaf tin from the oven and brush the top of the bread with melted butter.
- Allow the pan to cool for only 10 minutes. Gently run a knife around the edges to loosen the pull-apart bread, turn it out, and cool it completely.
- Once the bread is cooled, you can start tearing it apart. Gently pull or twist one end of the loaf to separate a chunk. From there, tear pieces off one at a time, pulling the bread apart in the opposite direction of the grain. This prevents the bread from tearing into too many small pieces. Enjoy with cup of your favourite beverages.
Nutrition
Serving: 1personCalories: 397kcalCarbohydrates: 65.2gProtein: 11.7gFat: 9.8gSaturated Fat: 5.6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.7gMonounsaturated Fat: 2.4gTrans Fat: 0.3gCholesterol: 25.4mgSodium: 261.2mgPotassium: 235.7mgFiber: 3.2gSugar: 4.8gVitamin A: 334.8IUVitamin C: 2.1mgCalcium: 101.9mgIron: 3.7mg
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