Garlic Knots Made From Pizza Dough

The Garlic Knots had a crunchy base with a chewy center and oozed with garlic butter. These can be excellent appetizers or snacks.

Recently, I have started making my dough for the Pizza. I make enough to make 3 large pies when I make the dough. I generally make 2 of them, and the third one is left behind in the refrigerator.

Last time when I had the pizza dough in the refrigerator (the dough works best when refrigerated for at least 2 days, and it works best if refrigerated for 3-5 days), I made the last portion of it into garlic knots, and they were beautiful.

The knots had a crunchy base with a chewy center, and they were oozing with garlic butter. For the third and final day of the blogging marathon theme's baked savory dishes, I am going to be writing about garlic knots. To make the pizza dough, please refer to this post.

Preparation time - 20 mins plus about 1-2 hrs to bring the dough to room temperature
Cooking time - 15 mins plus 2 hrs to rise the dough
Difficulty level - medium

Ingredients to make Garlic Knots - Makes about 20 medium knots

To make the knots

• Pizza dough - 1 recipe (enough to make 1 pie) - about 14 oz
• All-purpose flour - to dust
• Olive oil - 1 tbsp

To make the Garlic butter/oil -

• Butter/olive oil /combination of both - 4 tbsp
• Garlic - 4 cloves (minced finely)
• Parsley - ¼ cup (minced finely)
• Salt - to taste

Procedure to make Garlic Knots

• Bring the dough out from the refrigerator. Shape it into a ball and leave it in a floured bowl for about an hour to 2 hrs. By then, the dough should have doubled in volume.

• Bring the dough out and divide it into two. Cover one half when working with the other. Roll out one half into ½ inch ½-inch-thick rectangle.

• With a sharp knife, slice the dough into 1-inch thick strips. Take one piece and elongate it a little bit, and make it into a knot.

• Line them on a lightly greased baking tray, leaving a little space between them since they would rise again and become slightly bigger.

• Once all the knots are made, brush them with a little olive oil and cover them with a plastic wrap, and let them rise again until doubled in size. This could take anywhere from one hour to 2 hours.

• Remove the wrap and bake them in a preheated 400°F oven for about 12-14 mins or until browned on top. If placing 2 baking trays at the same time, make sure you double insulate (one tray on top of another) the tray in the bottom to prevent burning the base of the knots.

• Meantime, make the garlic butter/oil. Melt 4 tablespoon of butter or oil, or a combination of both, in a small saucepan. Add the garlic to the butter/oil and cook it on a low flame until the garlic is slightly brown. Now add the minced parsley and salt and mix well. Remove from heat.

• When the knots are done, bring them out and brush them liberally with the garlic butter/oil mixture. Serve warm as is or with some marinara sauce.

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Garlic Knots Made From Pizza Dough

The Garlic Knots had crunchy base with chewy center and it was oozing with garlic butter. These can be excellent appetizers or snacks. Its a very nice dish for any party.

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Course: Appetizer

Cuisine: Italian

Diet: Vegetarian

Prep Time: 2 hours hours 20 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 2 hours hours 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 4 hours hours 35 minutes minutes

Servings: 20 pieces

Calories: 32kcal

Author: Sandhya Ramakrishnan

Equipment

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  Oven

Ingredients

• ▢ All purpose flour - to dust
• ▢ 1 tablespoon Olive oil
• ▢ 4 tablespoon Butter/olive oil /combination of both
• ▢ 4 cloves Garlic minced finely
• ▢ ¼ cup Parsley minced finely
• ▢ Salt

Instructions

• Bring the dough out from the refrigerator. Shape it into a ball and leave it a floured bowl for about an hour to 2 hrs. By then the dough should have doubled in volume.
• Bring the dough out and divide it into two. Cover one half when working with the other. Roll out one half into ½ inch thick rectangle.
• With a sharp knife, slice the dough into 1 inch thick strips. Take one piece and elongate it a little bit and make it into a knot.
• Line them on a lightly greased baking tray leaving a little space between them since they would rise again and become slightly bigger.
• Once all the knots are made, brush them with little olive oil and cover it with a plastic wrap and let them rise again until doubled in size. This could take again anywhere from one hour to 2 hours.
• Remove the wrap and bake them in a preheated 400 F oven for about 12-14 mins or until browned on top. If placing 2 baking trays at the same time, make sure you double insulate (one tray on top of another) the tray in the bottom to prevent burning the base of the knots.
• Meantime, make the garlic butter.oil. Melt 4 tablespoon of butter or oil or combination of both in a small sauce pan. Add the garlic to the butter/oil and cook it on low flame until the garlic is slightly brown. Now add the minced parsley and salt and mix well. Remove from heat.
• When the knots are done, bring them out and brush them liberally with the garlic butter/oil mixture. Serve warm as is or with some marinara sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 32kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 7mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 63IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 2mg | Iron: 1mg

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