Yummy garlic bread tastes good as a side to pizza, salads, soups, pastas, and pretty much anything! Garlic knots are a fun twist to traditional breadsticks and they don’t take any longer to make! Try them dipped in a yummy marinara sauce, or just plain, brushed with our garlic topping recipe below.
For the dough, we use the same ingredients as our pizza dough recipe.
Yields 20 garlic knots
Ingredients:
1 c. Warm Water
1 pkg. or 1 Tb Active Dry Yeast
2 tsp. Sugar
1/2 tsp. Salt
1 Tbs Olive Oil
1 tsp. Garlic Powder
2 – 2 1/2 cups flour (Bread flour works best, but all-purpose flour will work as well.)
Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and let rest/proof for about 10 min. Add the sugar.
Combine the flour, garlic powder, and salt in a separate bowl. Add the olive oil and yeast mixture to the flour mixture.
Beat well until a soft dough ball has formed. Knead for a few minutes until smooth and elastic. Place dough in a large greased bowl. Cover with a cloth and place in a warm place to rise until doubled in volume, about 1 hour.
Take a small pinch of the dough and roll into a rope about 5 inches long and ½ inch thick. Tie the rope into a knot and place on greased baking sheet. Repeat until you have used up all the dough, and your baking sheet is full of dough knots.
Let the dough rest in a warm place until nearly doubled in volume (about 30 minutes)
Preheat oven to 400° F. Bake for approx. 12-15 min. or until golden.
While knots are baking, make garlic topping:
Garlic Topping:
2 Tbs. olive oil
2 Tbs. butter, melted
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp. parsley
Sprinkle of Parmesan cheese
After removing knots from oven, while still warm, either brush with garlic coating, or place knots in a large bowl and toss with garlic coating.
buttons says
Oh my goodness these look delicious! We’ve had something similar at a pizza place in town, and I could just chow down on way too many garlic knots and a salad! I will definitely have to try these out!
Cheers!
Buttons
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Jackie says
I have made these garlic knots 6 times. Always turn out amazing! I keep two dozen in the freezer. Great for pasta or soup and salad nights. Way better then anything from the frozen section in your grocery store! Thanks for the great recipe!
Lauren Allen says
Thanks Jackie! I’m so glad you have liked them! What a great idea to freeze some!
Leona says
Would you recommend freezing these before or after baking?
Lauren Allen says
Hi Leona, you could do either. I usually bake them, allow them to cool, and then freeze a few so theyre ready to go when I want them! Just take them out of the freezer and let them come to room temperature. 🙂
Emily Rasmussen says
I stumbled across these on pinterest, and have made them a couple of times. They are AMAZING!! Thanks so much for the recipe!
Lauren Allen says
Thanks so much for letting me know! So glad you like them!
mukul says
Hi thanks for sharing this recipe……….i made these for my daughter’s birthday…ppl asked me from where you bought them?:)
Lauren Allen says
So glad you liked them! Thanks for your comment 🙂
Rose says
These were awesome and easy to make. I actually made the dough in my bread machine. This the second time making them as my hubbie and I loved them!!
Kat says
O M G !!! These are incredible! What a great recipe. Will use this every time I make shrimp scampi or anything with pasta! Thank you thank you thank you! Lauren
Lauren Allen says
Thanks for coming back to comment! I’m so glad you liked them!
GiselleR @ Diary of an ExSloth says
I’ve never baked with yeast before but these garlic knots make me want to start. I’ll have to tinker with the topping a little to make it dairy free, but this is going on my to-make list 🙂
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Gretchen Tyree says
I have made these several times and never noticed the garlic powder in the bread flour mixture. So, today I am adding the powder. They have always been great.
Darlene Pollock says
First made these tonight , for dinner. Awesome husband loved it and so did I. Easy to make . Faboulous recipe. Thanks , Darlene Pollock
Dana Point Photographer says
Bomb .com! These knots are so good! Thank you for the recipe!