An alternative to fast food: a loaf baked with cheese and garlic

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Everything happens in life: guests suddenly appeared (relatives arrived without warning); you were detained at work, and you did not have time to cook dinner; you need to take something with you to nature that would be convenient to eat; there is no time or no strength to think something for breakfast … Sandwiches are tired, and in some cases they will not save the situation. And then a wonderful recipe comes to the rescue: a loaf baked with cheese and garlic.

Quick and sharp

Let's not assure (following the example of many TV presenters) that nothing is needed to prepare this dish. From a completely empty refrigerator, for example, you can’t get cheese. But the "little" 24 ingredients will not be needed. Moreover, a loaf baked with cheese and garlic should ideally be yesterday's, that is, a little dried up - it is more convenient to cut it. Initially, it was assumed that the bakery product shouldbe a French baguette, but our culinary specialists are convinced that an appetizer turns out even tastier from an ordinary loaf, but it is advisable to choose it with transverse bulges.

In addition to the actual bread base, you will need 100 g of butter (fatty butter) and cheese (certainly hard), garlic in the amount of a couple of cloves and greens - whatever you like or whatever you can find.

A fascinating cooking process

To get a loaf with garlic and cheese, which is convenient to eat, first of all you need to cut the bun correctly. It is sawn with a knife obliquely (if there are transverse cuts made in the bakery, then along them), and it is important not to cut the product to the end - it should remain conditionally intact. Garlic is choked, cheese, of course, is rubbed, greens are crushed. All this is ground with oil (it is better to get it out of the refrigerator first to soften, but in no case heat it on the stove). In the cuts made, you need to carefully put the resulting mass and blind it so that the loaf becomes as if whole. Then it is wrapped in foil and sent to a preheated oven for 20 minutes.

After that, it remains to unfold the bundle and leave it to brown for another five minutes. Deed done!

Serving Options

Of course, eating a loaf baked with cheese and garlic is completely impossible. So it will have to be cut. And how - it's a matter of taste. You can bring the cuts to the end - and get hot sandwiches. And you can, if you have a sharp enough and thin knife, cut between them, thenthe filling will be in an envelope. This method is very convenient if you are going to nature.

By the way, the cut loaf does not lose its attractiveness and the next day - warmed up in the microwave, it will serve as a quick and tasty breakfast.

Almost noon

If you slightly modernize the previous loaf baked with cheese and garlic, you can get a completely full-fledged dish that even a man who plays sports or physically works can eat. To do this, you will have to supplement the filling with 200 g of ham (sausages, bacon, bacon - whatever you like, only the latter is better to take less, otherwise it will turn out too fat). And for greater juiciness and vitaminization of the product, you can add 2-3 small tomatoes, which must be cut either into slices or circles. Everything else is according to the previous recipe, only in each cut, in addition to the cheese mass, a meat component and a piece of tomato are also invested. And if you want - add a sprig of greenery, not bad too!

This baked loaf is good both hot and cold. But if lard was used in the filling, it is necessary to warm up the "lunch".

Fantasy

If you like the idea, you can start experimenting with snacks. It is clear that a loaf baked with cheese and garlic (the recipe can be supplemented with herbs or vegetables) is tasty, but not always appropriate. For example, you are unlikely to cook such a dish for breakfast before work (well, or before a date with a passion). Fans of snacks and quick culinary solutions have already enriched the world with different options. So,a very appetizing version in which the bun is stuffed with meat and mushrooms. True, since there is a lot of filling, a sandwich loaf will not work here - you will have to take out the crumb. As a result, we have a semblance of a boat, in which we put all the goodies. And they include 200 g of meat (any), 100 g of mushrooms (better, of course, champignons), the same amount of bacon, half a glass of cream, tomatoes and mayonnaise - all this in addition to the ingredients already mentioned.

Bacon and meat are fried together with onions and mushrooms, the crumb is soaked in cream, then everything is mixed. The resulting minced meat is lovingly placed in the “boat”, tomatoes are on top, and then you need to anoint with mayonnaise. Unlike previous recipes, this loaf is not wrapped in foil - it is placed in the oven just like that. It should be baked for about 20 minutes, then sprinkled with cheese and put back into the oven, until a golden brown cheese crust is obtained - this will be a sign of readiness.

Of course, this is not such a fast dish, and you will need much more food. But we are already talking about the peaks that can be achieved by baking an ordinary loaf!

And if inspiration visits you, you will come up with your own recipe - unique and inimitable. That's when your family members (and at the same time unexpected guests) will be amazed by your culinary delights!