The Best Air Fryer Garlic Bread

Cheese Air Fryer Garlic Bread is a perfect appetizer or side dish for almost any meal done in under 10 minutes. This super easy recipe for Air Fryer Garlic Bread Homemade garlic bread is loaded full of cheddar cheese, cream cheese, fresh chopped parsley, and plenty of garlic. Your house will smell amazing.

Are you ready for a mouthwatering, scrumptious experience that will delight your taste buds and make your kitchen smell heavenly?

Just imagine: warm, crispy French baguette slices loaded with a luscious blend of cheddar and cream cheese, infused with fragrant garlic and butter, and topped off with a sprinkle of fresh, vibrant parsley. Mmm, are you drooling yet? I know I am!

But wait, there’s more! Our trusty air fryer steps in to make this dish even more fantastic (if that’s even possible!). Say goodbye to soggy or overly oily garlic bread—our air fryer friend delivers the perfect crunch every single time. Talk about a match made in culinary heaven!

But hold on to your oven mitts, folks!

This cheesy, garlicky adventure wouldn’t be complete without the pièce de résistance: a sprinkle of fresh parsley! It’s like a little green confetti shower, a celebration of flavors that will make your taste buds do a happy dance.

With each scrumptious bite, you’ll fall deeper in love with this delectable treat.

Are you ready? Let’s get started!

Where Does It Come?

The origin of garlic bread comes from Italy in the 15th century under a variation of the traditional Italian Bruschetta. In America, it appeared in restaurants in the 1950s and it was often served with pasta dishes, especially spaghetti and lasagna.

In Greece, you will find garlic bread in addition to the classic ingredients also contains olives and onions. In England, you will find that instead of olive oil is used butter.

How to Make Garlic Bread at Home?

Making garlic bread from scratch is so easy that you don’t need anymore to buy frozen ones from the stores.

The easiest way to make the garlic bread from scratch is by rubbing a cut clove of garlic over toasted slices of Italian ciabatta or the traditional French Bread and the end spreading the toast with vegetable oil or butter.

Shortly, here is how it’s done:

1. Cut the bread into slices. Cut the bread lengthwise to fit easily in your air fryer basket.
2. Make the garlic butter. Mix the cream cheese with garlic, butter, cheddar cheese, and chopped parsley.
3. Slather generously the bread slices with your garlic butter mix.
4. Bake them for about 5 minutes at 400°F.

🥰 Why You Will Love This Recipe?

• This recipe is very easy and quicker to cook in the air fryer than in the oven. It will take you only 5 minutes to make it. You don’t need to wait for 10 minutes to preheat the oven, then for another 10-15 to actually cook the bread.
• It is perfect for serving as a snack, soup, or ragout.
• You can customize the garlic bread to your taste. You can adjust the taste of the garlic, and you can experiment with a lot of toppings. Consider using different types of cheeses and spices.

🏆 Best Bread for Homemade Garlic Bread?

If you want the pizza bread to be more crunchy, I will recommend using bread that has a hard shell like a French baguette or Italian Ciabatta Bread have, however, you can use whatever bread leftovers that you have.

🏆 How to Make the Best Garlic Bread?

• Keep it simple and use a lot of garlic. It’s called GARLIC bread for a reason. Usually, I use at least one big garlic clove for every slice of bread. Also, use freshly shredded cheddar or parmesan cheese.
• Also, feel free to adjust the cooking time. Make them as crispy as you like.
• Avoid stacking the garlic bread slices in the air fryer basket. Keep them in a single layer.

Benefits of Making Your Own Garlic Bread

Have you ever looked at the back of the package of store-bought frozen garlic bread? Most probably, you will see that in these garlic bread slices weren’t used pure butter or any butter at all. This appetizer is so easy to make and the best part is that you can control the taste of it and make it exactly to your taste.

You can pick how garlicky you want the garlic bread to be. Also, you can play around with cheeses and aromatic herbs.

🥘 Ingredients Needed for This Recipe?

• Bread. I picked the French baguette, but if you can’t find it you can use any type of bread you prefer or that you have under your hands. You could even use flatbread.
• Softened Butter. I used unsalted butter.
• Garlic. I usually prefer fresh garlic. Another good option is to combine fresh garlic with powdered garlic.
• Aromatic herbs. I used chopped parsley but you can replace it with other aromatic herbs like oregano, basil, or dill. Also, you could try mixes of dried herbs like a provance herb mix or even Italian seasonings.
• Cheese. I used grated cheddar cheese. You could use parmesan or any other type of cheese you prefer.
• Cream cheese. The role of the cream cheese in this recipe is to form a base that will allow us to mix in it the rest of the ingredients for the topping.
• Salt.

🍳 Variations

You could use the same recipe to make garlic breadsticks. So after you have greased the bread slices, cut them into sticks as thick as you want. Then bake in the air fryer.

Quick Note: Pay attention that if you plan to make the garlic breadsticks in the air fryer, the baking time may decrease.

🍽️ What Do You Eat Garlic Bread With?

The garlic bread is a versatile side dish that will fit perfectly for almost any meal. You can enjoy them as they are, hot or cold. Another good combination would be to serve them with soup, a plate of spaghetti, meatballs, or ragout.

👩‍🍳 Step-by-step Directions

Quick Note: You can use any bread type you prefer, but if you want to get a crunchy result, you need to pick a bread that has a hard shell such as a French baguette. An alternative would be the Italian ciabatta. But you can use as well any other bread type that you have at hand, even toast or flatbread will be ok for this recipe.

If you have decided to go for the French baguette, cut a piece of baguette lengthwise that it fits in the air fryer basket. After that, cut it again in half lengthwise to form two slices.

Put all the ingredients for the topping in a bowl and mix well until you get a uniform cream.

Grease the obtained composition in a uniform layer on the bread slices.

Preheat the air fryer and put the bread slices in the air fryer basket.

Cook them for about 5 minutes at 400°F / 200°C or until they will become brown and will obtain a nice rich golden color.

Our garlic bread cooked in the air fryer is ready to be served.

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