Struggling with too much dough or rather the opposite is true? Check out this Garlic knots recipe that will solve both problems with a bow!
Course Appetizer, Breakfast, Side Dish, Snack
Cuisine Sugar free recipe
Prep Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 2 hourshours
Ingredients
Dough
7cupsAll purpose flour
1teaspoonFresh yeast
2½cupsLukewarm Water
¾ozExtra virgin olive oil
2teaspoonSalt
Filling
4clovesGarlicpureed or diced
4tablespoonButter
1tablespoonBasilfreshly diced
1tablespoonOreganofreshly diced
2teaspoonsTable salt
Topping
1cloveGarlicpureed or diced
1teaspoonBasilfreshly diced
1teaspoonOreganofreshly diced
1teaspoonTable salt
Instructions
Dough
Measure flour into a kneading bowl and sprinkle fresh yeast on top. No need to dissolve the yeast.
Pour in the olive oil and at least half of the water.
Knead the dough until it comes together gradually adding the remaining water and the salt. We are after a sticky humid dough as we are going to bake the dough in a low temperature home oven. Flouring our hand will prevent the dough to stick to it.
Cover the dough and place it to a 68°F – 81°F / 20°C – 27°C corner to raise.
It could take anything from 40 – 90 minutes depending on the temperature to double in size.
Filling
Crush or dice up the garlic.
Mix the garlic with the room temperature butter and the rest of the filling ingredients in a small bowl.
Assembly
After an hour waiting take dough out of the bowl onto a well-floured work surface. Roll it into a square. Flouring underneath the dough is important as this coating will prevent it to stick down.
Spread the butter with the herbs onto half of the dough.
Fold it in half so the butter creates a layer between the dough.
Then fold it again horizontally.
Leave it in a warm place under a kitchen towel for another 20 minutes.
After about 20 minutes when the dough have risen somewhat. Put it on a well-floured work surface to roll it in an approximately 10″ x 10″ / 30cm x 30cm square.
Cut about 1″ / 2cm wide stripes. Before cutting up the whole dough experiment with sizes. Find the length and with that is comfortable to make knots with.
Make knots out of the stripe and place roll into the the baking tray.
Prepare an egg wash by beating up an egg with a crushed garlic, basil, oregano and salt. Give an egg wash to each roll before putting tray into the preheated oven.
If making knots gets boring just twist the stripes and make garlic twists.
Place the dough on the upper medium rack of a preheated 480°F / 250°C oven until golden brown spots start to appear on top, for about 10 – 15 minutes.