Garlic Knots with pizza dough |Easy Garlic knots recipe

Last updated on March 5th, 2021 at 09:27 am

Garlic Knots with pizza dough is very simple to make, you’ll end up making frequently. Great for party menus and can be made a few days ahead! Stock up on some garlic and let’s get going with this!

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Who doesn’t love garlic bread right? So when that’s the case, garlic knots are destined to be everyone’s favorite too. Especially when they’re so cute and popular, yeah we all want that don’t we?

Garlic knots with pizza dough are basically garlic bread but shaped and brushed with the garlic and butter mixture. Popularized by pizzerias in New York, these are actually fun to pack for picnics and to dip in pizza sauce.

These two sauces are perfect for garlic knots:

• Super Easy Pizza Sauce recipe
• Marinara Sauce recipe

Easy Garlic Knots:

What goes into these:

Super simple ingredients go into making these garlic knots; ingredients that you’ll already have in your pantry. If you’ve seen my homemade pizza dough recipe you’ll see that it is the exact same recipe I’ve used here. So it’s just pizza dough rolled up nicely and brushed with garlic and butter mixture.

The topping is this really easy as well. You just need a few garlic cloves. I am always inclined to use more garlic; I like the roast/burnt/crisp garlic. But you can stop at 6 medium garlic cloves. With the garlic as the star ingredient, the next important ingredient is obviously le beurre aka the butter.

You can use salted butter for this. I never buy salted butter so I just add some extra salt to the mixture. You can just stop with butter and garlic but I like to add some Olive Oil. There is nothing that beats the flavor of olive oil in pizzas so I do like its flavor in garlic knots with pizza dough too. That with the butter and garlic brings out the most amazing flavor in the knots all the while making this the best garlic knots recipe.

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What goes with Garlic Knots – Serving Suggestions:

You can just eat them as such, it actually tastes delicious considering it has garlic flavor and enough salt with the taste from the butter and olive oil of course. Buy some marinara sauce or pizza sauce or make your own homemade marinara and homemade pizza sauce to dip the garlic knots in. It is just delish!

Although, because of the crisp texture you can serve them with soft or creamy dishes like beans, salad, baked creamy chicken, and so on. Garlic knots with pizza dough are super perfect for picnics, at least that’s when I make it. I make it a day ahead of a picnic or travel. Also, these are perfect for party food.

Calories in garlic knots

Are garlic knots vegan?

No, garlic knots are not vegan but they can be made vegan if you use vegan butter in place of regular butter or you can substitute the butter with olive oil. However, these are vegetarian from the dough to the topping.

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Variations:

Garlic knots with pizza dough are super versatile. You can add some extra jalapenos to make garlic jalapeno garlic knots. Or you can stuff a cube of cheese in the middle before doing the knots to make cheesy garlic knots.

Garlic knots with pizza dough:

Now let’s get to making these super easy garlic knots with pizza dough. The making of it is simply making the dough, shaping, and baking them. These are the ingredients you’ll need to make them:

For the pizza dough:

I actually use this Homemade Pizza Dough which I have on this blog. I use half the portion of it, mostly when I had made pizza for dinner the previous night and had excess dough in the refrigerator. By the way, you can also use storebought pizza dough. Or make it from scratch with the given measurements below!

To make the dough:

Gather the following ingredients:

• 2 cups All-purpose Flour
• 1/2-3/4 cup Water, as needed*
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1/2 tsp Instant Yeast
• 1 tbsp Granulated Sugar
• A pinch of Salt

For the Garlic Topping:

• 2 tbsp Butter , unsalted, room temperature
• 2 tbsp Olive Oil , virgin processed
• 6 cloves Garlic , minced
• 1 tsp Mixed Italian Herbs
• 1 tsp Salt

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Method:

The topping mixture:

• Mix the butter, olive oil, minced garlic, italian herbs and salt together. Cover with cling film and keep it in the refrigerator until needed.

The dough:

• Add 1/2 cup all-purpose flour to a mixing bowl. To that add the other ingredients: instant yeast, sugar, salt, 1/2 cup water, and olive oil in this order. Stir to combine. Cover with lid or cling film. Set aside for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes, add the rest of the flour to the mixing bowl. Mix and form a dough. IF* needed, add the extra 1/4 cup water. The dough should be tacky and soft.
• Oil the bowl and place the dough back into it. Cover with lid and let the dough rise for 1 hour or until it has doubled in size.
• After the dough has doubled, punch it down, form it into a ball and then divide it into 8 portions. Roll each portion into approximately 8-10-inch ropes/logs.

Shaping them:

• To make the knots, hold the logs at each end, bring the right side over the other leaving a loop in the middle. Then simply make an OVERHAND knot. Tuck the left-out edges underneath.
• Repeat with the other portions. Arrange it on a baking tray lined with parchment paper leaving an inch gap between each.
• Cover it with a cling film, loosely. Let it rise for 30 more minutes.

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Baking the Garlic Knots:

• Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 400 F / 200 C.
• Dip* a pastry brush or a silicone brush into the topping mixture and generously brush the butter mixture over the knots.
• Place the tray in the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Remove the tray and brush the knots again with the butter mixture.
• Put the tray back in the oven. Turn to broil mode and bake for 10 more minutes*.
• Finally, remove from the oven once done. Let it cool down a bit. Serve it warm with Homemade Pizza Sauce! Enjoy!

Notes:

• You can use leftover Pizza Dough from the previous day. Tightly wrap it up in cling film and store it in the refrigerator. In this case, you can directly skip to the shaping part. Shape and let it rise for 30 minutes.
• Water for the dough: The water needed for the dough depends on the time and place and the type of flour. So it might take anywhere between 1/2 cup to 3/4 cups. So add the additional 1/4 cup by the tablespoon as needed.
• Brushing the topping: As you dip the brush into the mixture, ensure to spoon the garlic mixture using the brush. This is to make sure the garlic bits get on the garlic knots.
• Baking: During the last 5 minutes, turn up the heat to 480 F / 250 C on broil mode to get that nice browning here and there. But do keep an eye during these 5 minutes to avoid too much browning.

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Made this? Got doubts? Let me know what you think in the comments below!