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Garlic Bread with Bottarga

This is a simple recipe for flavor packed garlic bread that's topped with bottarga, sometimes known as "Sardinian caviar."
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 14 minutes
Total Time 19 minutes
Course Appetizer, Side Dish
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8

Equipment

  • Baking sheet

Ingredients
  

  • 1 Loaf French or Italian bread
  • 8 Tablespoons unsalted butter (1 stick), softened
  • 5 Cloves garlic finely minced
  • 1 Tablespoon lemon zest plus more for serving
  • ¼ Teaspoon kosher salt
  • Fresh Italian flat leaf parsley chopped, to taste
  • Bottarga grated, for serving

Instructions
 

  • Pre heat oven to 350 degrees and prepare a large baking sheet.
  • Add the softened butter, lemon zest, garlic, salt and parsley in a bowl and stir to combine. Taste and adjust salt to your preference, add more parsley etc.
  • Cut the bread in half longways. Spread the butter mixture over the cut sides of the bread, all the way to the edges.
  • Bake the bread for 10-12 minutes. Broil the bread for 2-3 minutes, until golden brown and crisp.
  • Grate more lemon zest over the bread followed by plenty of bottarga.
  • Slice the bread and serve!
Keyword easy appetizer, easy recipe, quick
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