An amazing Dominos India recipe and one of the very first recipes I tried after I got a hang of using yeast. If you have been to the dominos in India, you would have surely tasted this garlic bread atleast once. They usually serve it with a cheese sauce and it tastes so good. I fell in love with it the first time I tasted it. And I couldn’t match it with any garlic bread served in any restaurant. Usually what they serve in most of the restaurants are plain bread slices, slathered with garlic butter and toasted before serving. I need the real deal.
So et voila, dominos stuffed garlic bread and plain garlic bread strips to the rescue. The first time I made this bread was for my sister and that too in an air fryer. She loved it a lot and wanted to make it for herself but was scared to use yeast ( I know right!). I hope she tries it now ( fingers crossed).
Let’s make this beautiful bread shall we?
INGREDIENTS
Makes 2-3 bread ( size varied)
- All purpose flour/Whole wheat flour – 500gms, sifted + extra for kneading and dusting
- Fast Action dried yeast (Instant yeast) – 7 gm *(refer notes)
- Salt – 1 tsp
- Sugar – 1 tbsp
- Olive Oil – 3 tbsp
- Garlic – 4 cloves ( finely chopped)
Garlic Butter
- Butter – 4-5 tbsp ( softened)
- Garlic – 5-6 cloves, minced.
- Salt- to taste ( if using unsalted butter)
Spice topping
- Oregano – ½ tbsp
- Chilli flakes – ½ tbsp
- Garlic powder – ½ tbsp
- Pepper powder – 1 tsp
- Thyme – ½ tsp
- Salt – ½ tsp
For the stuffed version
- Garlic butter – as required
- Pickled Jalapenos/peppers – 7- 8 slices
- Corn – ¼th cup
- Mozzarella cheese – as required
METHOD
1. In a mixing bowl take the flour, sugar, yeast, salt and mix together.
2. Make a well in the centre and pour in the half the oil. Add the lukewarm water and start kneading. Keep kneading adding water whenever required.
3. Knead the dough (will be quite sticky) and cover the bowl with a cling wrap or a tea towel and keep in a warm place for 1 to 1.5 hrs, undisturbed.
4. Meanwhile prepare the garlic butter by mixing the softened butter and garlic.
5. Also prepare the spice topping by pulsing the ingredients in a blender. Let it be coarse. After about 1.5 hrs check the dough. It would have risen by now. Preheat your oven at 200°C.
6. Top the risen dough with minced garlic and about 1 tsp of the spice topping.
7. Punch out all the air out from the dough and start kneading again dusting some flour if the dough is too sticky to handle. Once dough is well mannered and the garlic and the spice is incorporated add some oil and knead. Divide the dough into 2- 3 portion.
8. Take a portion of the dough and roll it out to a certain thickness.
9. Add some garlic butter on it and spread it all over.
10. Using a pizza cutter, cut the rolled dough into half and place both the halves on a greased parchment paper. Generously sprinkle the spice topping. Make strips on each half as shown in the picture.
11. For the stuffed garlic bread, follow steps 9 and 10. Before folding it into half, add the corn, jalapenos and top it with cheese. Fold the other half on top of it. Apply the garlic butter on top, sprinkle the spice topping and make the strip marks using a pizza cutter.
12. Bake both the bread in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.
13. Take it out, cut and serve hot with any soup or with a cup of tea.
NOTES
- I have used instant yeast (fast action dried yeast) and hence added it directly to the flour. But if using Active dry yeast, use about 9gms of yeast for every 500 gms of flour and make sure to activate the yeast. Take about half a cup of lukewarm water add the sugar and yeast and let it activate for about 10 minutes. Use this activated yeast water and some extra water to knead the dough.
- Don’t bother if your dough is sticky. It has to be like that. You can always dust with some flour and knead.
- It stays good frozen for about a month. When required , take it out of the freezer and bake it in oven for about 10-15 minutes at 150 C.
The Greedy Tummy 