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Dough balls with garlic butter

Name: Dough balls with garlic butter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 50g butter; 300g strong white bread flour; 7g sachet dried yeast; 1 tbsp caster sugar; oil for the bowl and baking sheet; 100g butter; 1 garlic clove crushed; crudités and cured meat, to serve (optional)

Lulu Grimes

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 30 mins

plus rising

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Serve a platter of warm dough balls with plenty of garlic butter. This easy recipe makes a great sharing-style starter for family and friends

Egg-free

Nut-free

Vegetarian

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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50g butter
300g strong white bread flour
7g sachet dried yeast
1 tbsp caster sugar
oil

for the bowl and baking sheet

For the garlic butter

100g butter
1 garlic clove

crushed
crudités

and cured meat, to serve (optional)

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal621
fat33g
saturates20g
carbs67g
sugars10g
fibre4g
protein11g
salt1.9g

Method

step 1

Warm 175ml water in a saucepan until steaming, then add the butter and set aside to cool until warm but not hot. Mix the flour, yeast, sugar and 1 tsp salt in a large bowl or tabletop mixer. Add the cooled water and mix to make a soft dough. Knead for 10 mins by hand, or for 5 mins in a mixer, until the dough feels bouncy and smooth. Return to a clean, oiled bowl and cover with oiled cling film. Leave somewhere warm to rise for 1½-2 hrs, or until doubled in size.
step 2

Oil a baking sheet. Knock the air out of the dough and knead again for several mins. Take a small piece of dough (about the size of a walnut) and roll it into a ball. Place the ball on the baking sheet and repeat with the remaining dough, spacing the dough balls about ½ cm apart. Cover and leave to rise for 30 mins. Meanwhile, to make the garlic butter, melt the butter in a pan, then stir in the garlic. Season.
step 3

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. The dough balls should be almost touching by now. Bake for 25-30 mins until cooked through. Brush with some of the garlic butter and leave to cool for 5 mins. Serve with the remaining garlic butter and a selection of crudités and cured meat, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2019

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