Caramelized Garlic Bread

 

I planted some garlic the other day on Jon and Kristina's property and was so excited about garlic I made some bread for them with about 50 cloves in it.

 

Method

Prepare a Ciabatta dough, or a Foccacia dough.

Peel the cloves and fry in some butter on very low heat for about an hour.

After this, add a pinch of salt and pepper, 2 tbsp. brown sugar, 1 tbsp. balsamic vinegar and stir not to let the sugar burn.

Fold the caramelized cloves into the ciabatta dough. They should be like caramel with a bit of sauce.

 

Shape bread and bake according to the dough recipe.

The Studio at Purakaunui

This is the studio at Jon and Kristina's property in Purakaunui TOm and I moved to for a little while.

back door to the native bush

There is a beautiful rainforest creek next to us with old Rimu, Totara, Fuschia, Horopito...

Local sand flats

The inlet is tidal and has nice track beside it that winds around to the open ocean past little bays

Manuka looking back south towards Mount Mopanui

Purakaunui inlet main channel

Purakaunui inlet meeting the ocean