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Homemade Garlic Bread

This is superior garlic bread. The garlic is roasted until caramelised and then pressed into homemade bread dough before baking. Serve toasted with mozzarella and with a simple coriander and tomato salad.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Homemade Garlic Bread

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Homemade Garlic Bread

Makes 2 mini-baguettes
Cook1 hr

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

712Calories
20 gProtein
21 gFat
109 gCarbs

Counts 6 of 8 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 6 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Mozzarella Cheese1 oz (28g)85
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Buffalonot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Garlic + buffalotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: geraniol (rose, geranium).

  3. Olive + buffalotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together131 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Flour + buffalotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

  5. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, olive, sugar, buffalo):

  1. Jalapenofits about as well
  2. Garlicthe original
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Cinnamonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, olive, sugar, buffalo. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.