Beautiful Pull-Apart Flower Petals Garlic Bread
A delicious easy-to-eat bread for casual get-togethers, and fancy enough for formal events. This beautiful bread is a fabulous and tasty addition to your baking repertoire.
Ingredients
For Cheese Garlic Filling
- ½ cup Cream cheese, softened
- 1 Tbs Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Minced Garlic Can be subtituted with granulated garlic
- ½ tsp Dried Oregano
- ½ tsp Dried Parsley
- 3 Tbs Parmesan Cheese, grated
- ½ tsp Black Pepper
For Bread Dough
- 2 tsp Active Yeast
- ½ cup Whole Milk
- 1 Tbs Sugar
- 4 cups Flour, sifted
- ½ cup Yogurt
- 1 Large Egg
- 1 tsp Salt
- 6 Tbs Olive Oil, or neutral vegetable oil
Topping
- 6 stalks Green Onions, chopped
- 1 Egg, lightly beaten for eggwash
- 2 Tbs Butter, melted Optional
Instructions
- To make the Cheese Garlic filling, combine all the ingredients listed and mix until smooth.
- Next, dissolve the yeast in lukewarm milk, add sugar, stir and set aside for 5 minutes.
- When the yeast is ready, put all the dough ingredients into the your stand mixer bowl. Mix with the dough hook until the dough is soft and elastic. The dough would pull away from the sides to form a ball.
- Transfer dough ball into a large well oiled bowl. Cover and put in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour, or until it doubled in size. Grease a large 11" shallow pie dish and set aside.
- When ready, knead the dough and divide into 2 portions. Move one portion to a working surface and return the other to the bowl and keep covered.
- Lightly dust your working surface with flour. Roll out the dough into about ⅛ thickness.
- Using a 3 inch round cutter, cut out as many circles as possible. Repeat with the other portion of dough. Collect the scraps and roll out again and cut until you have about 30 circles. Keep the rounds covered so that they do not dry out.
- Spoon out the cheese filling evenly on top of each round. Fold each circle in half, making a semi-circle, and pinch the points together to form a "petal". Top the exposed edge with chopped green onions. Place the petal into a prepared greased pie dish.
- Start by placing the bread petals on the outer edge of the pie dish and working your way into the middle in a circular pattern. When complete, cover the bread and let it rise for 30 minutes.
- In the meantime, preheat the oven to 350°F. When ready, brush the top lightly with the prepared eggwash. Bake in oven for 30 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
- Remove from oven and place on rack to cool. Brush with melted butter (optional). The bread is ready!
Notes
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