Cheesy garlic bread

This is great if you want to add 10,000 calories to your day hahah but honestly, it's worth it.

Simple, yummy, and the perfect side to any main meal you have like pasta or pizza or anything Italian for that matter.

In fact, I eat the whole loaf on my own as a pregame snack to my main meals - whoops!

You can bake this in the oven, works just as well, and if you want extra cheesiness, add grated parmesan on top of the loaf as well as in the butter mixture.

Cheese heaven.

Prep time: 10

Cooking time: 15 mins

Serves: 2

Ingredients

1 loaf of ciabatta or similar

5 garlic cloves, crushed

1/2 cup finely chopped parsley

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

1/4 cup butter, softened

Method

1. Mix the garlic, butter, parsley and salt in a bowl then set aside.

2. Take your loaf, and cut along the top diagonally, 3/4 of the way down, ensuring you dont cut all the way through. Then turn the loaf around and cut diagonally the opposite way so you have a criss-cross pattern.

3. Open the crevices of the loaf, and spread the butter mixture in every space. Be sure to also spread the butter on top of the loaf.

4. Take the mozzarella and fill in the gaps like you did with the butter.

5. Wrap the loaf in tinfoil, and place in the air fryer for 16 minutes on 200 degrees celcisus.

6. At the 14 minute mark, open the top part of the tinfoil exposing the bread, and cook for a further 5 minutes so it gets crusty and browns. You may need to trim the surrounding tinfoil with scissors so it doesn't burn.

7. Serve hot!

Notes

• If you want to add more spicy, throw in some chili flakes in to the butter mixture before inserting into the bread.

• You can also add tomato base inside the crevices before the mozzarella cheese, or have a tomato sauce on the size to dip the garlic bread pieces into.

• You don't have to criss-cross the bread, this just gets more surface area. If you want to just cut classic straight lines, that's totally fine.