Easy Homemade Garlic Knots
Easier than you might think to make and always a welcome snack or appetizer at any gathering! Our Easy Homemade Garlic Knots are chewy with just the right amount of crunch on the outside and are coated with a butter garlic and cheese topping!
Next, try our Skillet Pizza Dip with Garlic Butter Rolls!
Bring on all of the party appetizers and game-watching snacks! My family is obsessed with our latest and greatest appetizer, and it’s quickly become one that my kids love to help make, too. Our Easy Homemade Garlic Knots are like hand-held garlic butter pizza dough bites baked to perfection, chewy on the inside and just the right crisp on the outside for a little gluten flavor bomb. They make the perfect snack, appetizer, or stand-in for your standard dinner roll. Just be warned, they don’t last long!
Ingredients Needed
- Bread Flour – You can also use all-purpose flour, but we find that using bread flour makes for a chewier center vs. a fluffier center with all-purpose flour, but totally up to you!
- Warm Water, Sugar, and Yeast – We use active yeast that requires about 10 minutes to activate, but you can also use instant yeast to cut down on that prep time.
- Olive Oil – You can also use melted butter, but we find that to be more like pizza dough vs dinner rolls, olive oil is best.
- Seasonings – Italian Seasoning, Garlic Powder, and Salt. The garlic powder and salt are added to the dough, while our Homemade Italian Seasoning is used in the garlic butter topping.
- Fresh Garlic and Butter – Melted and mixed for a butter garlicky topping!
- Grated Parmesan Cheese – Ok, now this will maybe be the only time that I prefer the pre-grated Parmesan cheese over fresh grated. While you can of course use fresh grated, the look of this grated Parmesan cheese is much better.
Helpful Tools
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Stand Mixer – You can make this dough without a stand mixer and just by using a large spoon or spatula to mix by hand, but a stand mixer will make it much easier and faster!
Kitchen Scale – This is one of our most used kitchen tools! Measuring flour and other dry ingredients is key for ensuring proper measurements.
Dough Cutter – Not necessary, but a good dough cutter is great to have around for any bread baking that requires splitting dough, and it’s also a great tool to use to scrape up that excess flour on your countertops!
Pastry Brush – To give that final brush of oil.
Step by Step Instructions
Create Dough
Garlic knots are made from a super simple dough (pizza dough) which requires just flour, yeast, olive oil, water, and just a touch of sugar. That’s it! It comes together in no time thanks to a stand mixer and then a little bit of time to rise.
Pro Tip – Make Ahead
You can make this dough ahead of time! Make it up to 5 days ahead of time and store it in the fridge or in the freezer for up to 3 months to make these Easy Homemade Garlic Knots even easier to make when the craving hits!
Cut Dough
Once the dough has risen, give it a little punch down, shape it into a dough ball, and then separate it into 16 evenly-sized pieces for your garlic knots!
Pro Tip – Use a Kitchen Scale
In addition to weighing the flour for this recipe, a kitchen scale is also incredibly helpful with weighing the dough sections to ensure that they are all about the same size.
Tie into Knots
Now for the fun part! Roll those dough pieces out into long logs and then wrap the ends up to then tie them into (literal) knots!
BUtter and Garlic Topping
Brush with melted butter mixed with chopped garlic and Italian seasoning for the final touch!
Bake!
Baked until the bottom of the knots get a nice little crispy crust while the center is delightfully chewy! Top with another little brush of butter and a sprinkle of Parmesan cheese and some fresh chopped parsley and done!
Easy Homemade Garlic Knots! My family went nuts over these, for a delicious reason!
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These Easy Homemade Garlic Knots are now on our must make party snack list and once you make them for yourself, they’ll be added to yours, too!
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Easy Homemade Garlic Knots
Equipment
- small saucepan
- Dough cutter optional
- kitchen scale optional
Ingredients
Dough
- 3 1/2 cups bread flour 475 g
- 2 1/4 teaspoon active yeast 10 g
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 1/3 cup warm water up to 90 degress
- 1 teaspoon fine ground salt 9 g
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder 4 g
Topping
- 5 tablespoons salted butter
- 4 cloves garlic minced, 1 tablespoon
- 1 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese grated
- fresh parsley minced to garnish
Instructions
- Activate Yeast: Add sugar and water to the bowl of a stand mixer and whisk to dissolve the sugar. Sprinkle yeast on top and let activate. About 10 minutes. Or use instant yeast to skip the activation time.
- Create Dough: In a medium-sized bowl, add flour, salt, and garlic powder and give a quick mix. Once the yeast is activated, add olive oil to the stand mixer and mix on low for 5-10 seconds. While mixing on low, add the flour one cup at a time letting the flour incorporate after every addition. Repeat with all flour and mix until a dough ball is formed. Let mix in the stand mixer for 1 more minute.
- Proof: Lightly oil the bottom and the sides of a large bowl and add the dough ball. Cover with plastic wrap and let it proof until it has doubled in size, about 1 hr.
- Prep Butter: Add the butter to a small saucepan on medium and melt. Once fully melted, add the garlic and the Italian seasoning and mix. Add to a small bowl.
- Portion: Preheat the oven to 400 ℉. Once proofed, gently punch down and form into a ball. Lightly flour a clean work surface or a large cutting board. Use a dough cutter or butter knife to cut 16 equal pieces of dough from the dough ball. It is best to use a kitchen scale to ensure that all of the pieces are the same size, weighing from 1.75 – 2.00 oz each.
- Shape: Take each piece and roll it out into an 8-inch log. Tie into a knot by bringing the two ends up, and then one end through the center to tie a knot with the dough log. Place on the parchment-lined baking tray and repeat with all 16 pieces of dough.
- Rise Again: Gently cover the baking trays with the shaped knots with a linen kitchen towel and let rise for another 30 minutes.
- Bake: Use a pastry brush to gently brush the tops of the garlic knots with the melted butter. Save some of the butter for when the knots are baked. Bake in the oven on the two middle racks for 10 minutes then rotate the trays on the racks, moving the lower tray up and the higher tray down. Bake for another 8-10 minutes until the tops of the knots begin to golden.
- Finishing Touches: Use the pastry brush to brush the last bit of butter (avoid any raw garlic) onto the tops of the knots. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese while the butter is still melted so it sticks. Garnish with minced fresh parsley.
- Serve and Enjoy with your favorite marinara dipping sauce!
The recipe was indeed very easy! And super delicious. Served for a girls night in gathering. Thanks!
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and what a great thing to bring to girls’ night! Thanks so much for sharing!