Le Artisan Boulangerie × Kitchen Therapy × The Kitchen Trail
The Dipping Series
This Pull Apart Garlic Bread by Le Artisan Boulangerie is possibly the best thing in the world. I have dreams about them. This is her nostalgia reproduction – she gorged on these during her culinary training in London and it was the one thing that she missed terribly. So she did what any well-behaved foodie would do – recreate it and offer this little piece of heaven to anyone in dire need of good old fashioned comfort.
My nostalgia is added by pairing this baguette with a marinara sauce that I survived on in my college days in Boston – it was one of those jar sauces that you simply stirred into your pasta, rice, eggs, or whatever and all I did to make it mine was add garlic powder (yes, I succumbed to using this once upon a time, but never again, I promise), pepper and extra virgin olive oil. My culinary skills have thankfully moved far beyond that over the past decade (my God, it’s been a decade!?!) and I wouldn’t go anywhere near a jarred pasta sauce again. I replicated the sauce at home in true Kitchen Therapy form – easy cooking, simple – and the aroma of the sauce bubbling and this sinful garlic bread warming in the oven is what heaven must be made of.
I may sound like I am overselling this bread, but if you take a bite, you’ll thank me in hugs and kisses (and maybe truffles?). Krishna from The Kitchen Trail and I ate the ENTIRE thing right after the shoot, and this was after a heavy breakfast!
Other uses for the dip:
In sandwiches, as a pasta sauce, soup, with eggs
Photo Credits: The Kitchen Trail
The Recipe
Serves 2
Ingredients
- 6 tomatoes, crushed
- 1 tbsp garlic, minced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 2 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- fresh oregano for garnish
- Pull Apart Garlic Baguette
Instructions
- Heat the olive oil and butter in a medium deep pot on medium flame.
- Add the garlic and let cook for 5-7 minutes.
- Then add the herbs followed by the tomato puree.
- Add sugar, salt and pepper and let the sauce simmer, stirring occasionally for at least 30 minutes. The sauce should be thickened to dipping consistency.
- The sauce can be served warm or at room temperature.
- Serve with the Pull Apart Garlic Baguette.
