This is how you quickly make the tastiest garlic knots
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Close your eyes and imagine: warm rolls, fresh out of the oven, with melted garlic butter... Is your mouth watering? Then get to work NOW and pull these super quick garlic knots out of the oven in an hour.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 can of pizza dough
- 150 grams of butter
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- bunch of flat-leaf parsley
- 10 cloves of garlic
Garlic knots are a staple on the menu of pizzerias in America. In the kitchen, they tie up rolls from leftover pizza dough, and a bit of herb butter is always in the fridge. You can make the dough yourself, which is not complicated at all, but it does take more time because the dough needs to rise. In a hurry? Ready-made pizza dough works just as well.
Making dough
If you make your own dough, you will also need these ingredients:
- 300 grams of flour
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 10 grams of dried yeast (or 20 grams of fresh yeast)
- 2 teaspoons of salt
- (optional: 1 tablespoon of semolina)
To make your own dough: dissolve the sugar in a cup of lukewarm water. Add the dried yeast and let it sit until it starts to foam. Mix the salt and flour together. Make a well in the flour and pour the yeast mixture into it. Knead together and add lukewarm water until it forms a soft, pliable dough. Knead for about ten minutes (or let the food processor do it). Form it into a ball, place it in a greased bowl, and cover it for two hours in a warm place, until the dough ball has doubled in size.
Garlic butter
In the meantime, you can make the garlic butter: let the butter soften, chop the garlic as finely as possible, chop the parsley, stir the garlic, parsley, and salt into the softened butter and set it aside.
Rolling out, tying, baking
Prepare a baking sheet with parchment paper. Optionally sprinkle some semolina on it, which will create a crispy crust on the bottom of the roll.
Flatten the dough and roll it out. Divide it into about twelve elongated pieces. Using ready-made dough? The same story applies: roll it out and divide it into twelve elongated pieces.
Roll those pieces of dough a bit with your hands and then make a knot from each piece of dough.
Place the knots on the baking sheet. Cover them and let them sit for half an hour. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 200 degrees.
Bake the knots for about 20 minutes until golden brown and cooked through. Brush them immediately after they come out of the oven with the garlic butter and eat them right away. Want to eat them later? Then wait a bit longer before spreading the butter on the rolls.
