I turned lip liner into a pencil I use to write silly notes on my bathroom mirror.
I turned an outdoor fire pit into an herb garden.
I turned a toothbrush into a bike cleaner.
I sometimes turn my desk into my bed… by simply falling asleep at it.
I can turn my bathroom sink into a cat bath.
Turn breakfast into dinner? I’ll do that. Yes.
Turn whole wheat pizza dough into twisty garlic knots!? That’s a heck-yes. That’s a win.
What’s your favorite part about garlic knots?
My favorite part is the garlic knottiness (not a word, now totally a word).
(I know the above picture doesn’t match completely. Let’s just let that be ok. Ok?)
Warm, yeasty bits soaked in garlic, butter, and olive oil.
Whole wheat flour adds a nice heartiness, nuttiness, yumminess.
Doesn’t knotted dough look pretty? I like this.
Oh! I should tell you that this dough also doubles as an AWESOME PIZZA CRUST! Roll it out. Don’t slice it into strips, and top with sauce, cheese and toppings.
Warm bread tossed in garlic, butter, olive oil, and parsley. This is where goodness happens.
Whole Wheat Garlic Knots
inspired by this delicious looking pizza.
makes about 10 garlic knots
1 package active dry yeast, about 2 1/2 teaspoons
1 cup warm water (just warmer than body temperature)
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sea salt
2 teaspoons sugar
For the garlic mixture:
4 to 6 cloves garlic, peeled and minced
2 tablespoons melted butter
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 cup chopped parsley
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
In a small bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar with warm water. Let sit for 5 minutes until yeast is frothy. That means it’s alive and ready to go.
In a large bowl, whisk together flours and salt. Create a small well in the center of the flour mixture. Pour in the yeasty water and add oil. With a fork, mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients. If the dough is too sticky, add more all-purpose flour. Dough should be slightly sticky, but not stick to your hands too much.
Knead dough on a lightly floured surface for about 5 minutes. Place dough in a large greased bowl. Flip the dough over to coat the dough. Cover with plastic wrap and a clean kitchen towel, and leave to rest in a warm, draft-free place for 1 hour, or until the dough is doubled in size. At this point, you can make the garlic knots, or let the dough rise in the refrigerator overnight. Just bring the dough to room temperature before rolling it out.
When ready to prepare the garlic knots, roll out dough on a lightly floured surface. Roll into a 10-inch by 10-inch square. Roughly…. it doesn’t have to be perfect. Use a pizza cutter to slice 10 1-inch stripes. Tie a knot in the center of the dough, and wrap the ends under and around the knot. This doesn’t have to be perfect either… just make sure that the dough is all tucked into itself. Cover with clean kitchen towel and let rest for 30 minutes.
Place racks in the center and upper third of the oven and preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Place dough knots on prepared baking sheets and bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until golden brown.
While bread bakes, in a large bowl whisk together minced garlic, butter, olive oil, parsley and salt. When rolls come out of the oven, immediately toss them in the garlic butter mixture. Toss until coated and remove from the butter bowl. Serve rolls warm.
Rolls are best served the day they’re made, but will last for 3 days if well wrapped. Just reheat in a piece of foil in a 350 degree F oven for 10 minutes.
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Joy, in your top picture, did you sprinkle some grated cheese on the garlic knots?
These look amazing! Do you think I can substitute the fresh parsley with basil or dried parsley? I’m planning to make thses for an up coming spaghetti dinner :)
These look delicious! Do you think I can substitute the parsley with basil?
I made these last night for a dinner party to rave reviews. Thanks so much!
These look so delicious!
One of the pizza places near where I live has these amazing rosemary knots. I want them, but I’ll make these instead!
Deliziosi ciao
Yum! Totally making these!
Yum! I need to makes these on the weekend for my folks! Great stuff Joy, you are my culinary hero!
Ok SO making these on the weekend. Garlic may be the perfect date repellent, but it doesn’t count if you don’t have a date so MEH. Ill be munching on these while watching You’ve Got Mail on Saturday night thank you very much!
I made these a few days ago for a little get together and they were fabulous. Soft and flavorful, excellent with cheese and dips! Thank you so much for the recipe.
Oh wow! These look soooooo good! Joy, I love your blog and enjoy every. single. post. LOVE! Thank you!
Joy!
This was the first time i attemped making any kind of bread and it turned out absolutely divine. Such a great encouragement indeed! All thanks to you, you’re quite the teacher.
Love from India.
P.S reading your blog is my favourite de-stressor…it never disappoints!
love this!
I am totally kicking that girl that turned me on to your blog. Now I’m going to have to exercise. Kicking is exercise, right?
totes exercise.
love your snarky posts, joy.
and i love these garlic knots. if only my apt weren’t 60 billion degrees!
mmmmmm drooling! I love garlic. These look fab! You are so creative in the kitchen I love it! Coming to your blog is like sunshine in my day!!! ;-)
p.s in regards to your podcast, I totally understand in “your secret brain” that we all get anxious about wanting people to be involved in our work, online web stats and all, success is GRAND (I do the same with my website and business)! don’t worry too much about it though because you are AWESOME! And obviously that shows by how many people comment on your posts and your success thus far of course! so cheers to you and your amazing witty talent (baking yumminess and writing wonderful bits of your life ;-) !
These look great but I was wondering if I made these with just whole wheat flour will they not be fluffy? I’m new at making doughs and stuff and I’m trying to find a way to make things for my Sicilian father whose on a heart healthy diet that he used to eat but replace ingredients with better ones (usually it tastes like cardboard but he’s a good sport lol).
All whole wheat flour will change the liquid ratio for this dough… Or create a much more dense dough. If you’re feeling brave, play around and see how it goes! Happy Baking!
I have used all whole wheat flour for different recipes and I would recommend letting it rise over-night in the fridge. I’ve made pita pockets with all whole wheat flour and I let the dough sit in the fridge for 2 nights, and they came out perfectly!
These look beyond divine! I’m currently on the Slimming World diet in order to fit in a bridesmaid dress that was ordered 2 sizes too small, gotta love my life. BUT, once that wedding day has passed in a few weeks I have amassed quite the list of delectable treats to make and gorge myself on (totally not the healthy way but I’m embracing the dark side) I was wondering if the first part of this recipe could be done on the dough setting of my bread machine? I’m a recent convert to the bread machine so not 100% on the adaptations from regular recipes yet.
I bet the machine would work. This dough is basically pizza crust, so if you have your own pizza crust recipe that you know works in your machine, go with that!
I am dying over the whole wheat garlic knots. I would eat the whole basket! I love how you “knotted” them. Looks fun and something I could get my kids to do with me.
garlic + bread = happiness in my tummy. I’m marking this one as a must-do!
How did you know that I’ve just become obsessed with garlic knots! We order them when we order our favorite pizza, but I’ve recently been ordering the pizza just so I can order the knots!
I like the looks of these a lot.
Yum/ That is all
My daughter and I made these to go with dinner tonight – YUMMY!!!
I LOVE garlic knots. I live in New York and the pizzerias are always willing to sell their delicious pizza dough so I can make concoctions of my own but I have to say I never thought of whole wheat garlic knots in all my carb adventures. I guess when I go for buttery goodness I leave now fatty stone unturned. Good call! I’ll have to do this next time :)
Oh, I was just reading Ruth Reichl’s “Comfort Me with Apples” and the chapter on garlic made me want to bury everything around me in cloves of garlic….So, I will be making this soon! Thanks, Joy!
Garlic, butter, carbalious!
Wow, those look incredibly delicious! These would be so great on spaghetti and meatball night. I can’t wait to taste them…with all that butter, oil and garlic…oh man!
These look great and so simple (except possibly the knot tying!).
These remind me of the garlic knots they serve at my favorite italian restaurant in Santa Barbara — Palazzio. Have you been? If not, you musttttt
I’m at work and there is a pool of drool on my desk after looking at these scrumptious knots. All my papers and reports are drenched. That’s it. I’m making this this weekend. Thanks!
BTW Lovin’ the podcasts!
I’m not even sure I want to tell my fiance about these…they look amazing!
Dear Joy,
I heart you lots. I fear one day though that I will be forced to sue you when I get too fat to leave my house. Until that day I will keep drooling at your photos and making/eating your recipes.
Love, Erika
My favorite pizza place makes the most delicious garlic knots in the whole world and I’ve been thinking about making them at home for a while now. You totally inspired me! My long distance boyfriend will be visiting this weekend and he’s absolutely going to flip out when I make these for him. CAN’T WAIT! Thanks Joy!
Love the look of these – big fan of anything bread and garlic related.
Joy,
I am a new reader of yours and I just LOVE your recipes. Thanks so much for sharing!
Carrie Beth
I made these last night and the whole fam LOVED them! And I may or may not be eating the few leftovers for breakfast as I type.
Garlic knots are a universal love in my family. Whenever we go to an Italian restaurant we always order garlic knots. Always.
I can’t wait to make them myself now! :]
I’m ALL over anything with garlic. These rolls look super garlicky and simply delicious!
I currently live and work in China and I have been dying here because my apartment doesn’t have an oven (sad face) and I love to bake. My best friend loves to torture me by telling me all the goodies she’s been baking and introduced me to your blog and I have been OBSESSED. I even have a bookmarks section of all your yummy looking recipes. There has to be more than 20 plus bookmarked, it’s a little ridiculous (just a little), but I am ABSOLUTELY dedicated to making them all once I get back to the US, which is this fall. I can’t wait! BTW, I listened to your podcasts and you two are hilarious which brings me to the reason why I decided to comment- I was a lurker and decided I didn’t like that. Thanks for making my day a little brighter and these garlic knots definitely got bookmarked! =]
These look seriously good. Oh my.
warm yeasty bits ….. kinda loling!
This sounds so good. Especially as a pizza crust. I love versatile dishes
Joy, I can smell the garlic! How intoxicating these are and they look soooooo delicious! I can’t wait to play with the dough and make some cool looking knots.
Garlic…..oh me oh my…..I love it so. Must scurry off to make my grocery list!
or is it warm garlic…naughtiness? :) yum these look fantastic!
Mmm, there isn’t a whole lot that beats a good garlic knot.
Well, I’ll be making these in the next 6 seconds. Delicious.
Those are the prettiest balls of dough I have ever seen.
Wow these garlic knots look amazing!!!! Yum!
1 – These look ridiculously amazing! Real talk
2 – I am turning brunch into a dinner party tomorrow night. Go figure.
3 – These are making me wish I could incorporate into my brunch-dinner. (Brinner?) They are practically begging for an invite.
Oh Joy, this sounds amazing.. I am now craving garlic knots and pizza!!
You are not doing my hips any favors. Evil! ;)
I love this idea! These knotty little things are totaly siren-songing me right now!
These look FANTASTIC! I have been SERIOUSLY missing garlic knots since I moved out to Colorado from the pizza-capital-of-the-US, NYC! They just don’t do it the same out here!
Garlic is always where it’s at!
Hum the simplest things are the best!
I’m not gonna lie, the last picture of the melted butter, I want to drink it.
I might die if I don’t eat these soon. need. need. need.
ps. my bathroom sink is a constant cat bathtub. Although lately they have taken to the kitchen sink…..
i slather the circle of dough with the garlic mixture (and sprinkle with parmesan, optional), then slice in pie wedges,12 or 16 depending on the size of the circle. then roll up like crescent rolls. let rise and bake.
i’ve also made them into knots. olive oil, butter, and garlic. you can’t go wrong!
I’m having massive amounts of stress at the moment — this post is such a nice diversion, and the carbs in this delicious looking recipe…. oh my! I’m salivating…..
that first picture already made my mouth water! so delicious looking, Joy.
I just stayed at a farm and harvested my very own garlic! I will be making these tonight
Question though:
If i need to cheat to save time can I use the trader joes pre made crusts?
This looks awesome and super easy to make vegan! Thank you!
I would love to try these adding chopped up sun-dried tomatoes to the dough.
YES! Perfect way to round out any meal. My gosh… I want to eat those *now*. Then I’d have garlic breath all day, though. Maybe later… I want them for lunch. Yes, that sounds about right. Time to pull out the flour bowl…
YUM! I love garlic knots. Thanks for the recipe!
Total yummers. I love this.
Thank you!!
Any kind of fresh baked bread with garlic butter on it rocks my world!
Joy, you’re simply the best, you know that??? :D I love garlic!
This looks soooooooo yummy! Question: can you substitute all purpose flour for the wheat flour in a pinch? As always, you rock!
These look just scrumptious and I’m certain they’d never last three days. Just printed the recipe so it’ll be on our table this week…maybe today!
i could really use some of these right now. no, seriously.
This has been bumped to the top of my “to make” list! Usually I share my baked goods but you know what…I don’t think I will this time.
this is what i feel like having now,.
These look fun, nice work. Dough ball bliss!
Ooooh! Yummy. These garlic knots look delicious. And the pizza dough recipe, too! I’ve been trying to find a good one with a bit of whole wheat. I’ll have to try this for sure!
i’m making these even if it’s 90 degrees and too humid and a crazy idea to turn on the oven–which it is today!
My mouth started to water when I saw the first picture.
I have got to make some of these!
umm joy, we need to see that video of you bathing a cat.
Haaha! It’s all I can do just to hold onto him!!
I make pizza dough all the time but I have never thought to turn it into garlic knots, I have to try these!
Yum!!! I could eat these for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! I’ll have to try it as a pizza dough too. I’m sure it’s wonderful! :)
These look super yummy. Much better than the ones they give you in restaurants that are sitting on a plated pool of olive oil and getting soggy!
Mmm, those look so tasty. I’ve been wanting to make garlic knots for a while now, and I love adding whole wheat to my breads, so these really appeal to me :D Oh and thank you for the reheating tips. Warm from the oven bread at any time, that’s kind of dangerous though, don’t you think? :D
Oh my goodness, these are gonna be awesome on our pasta night (a.k.a. Way Too Much Starch night).
Carb on carb!
i am OBSESSED with garlic knots….i work on a trading desk with all guys, who like to order pizzas something like 4 days a week. clearly i have to refrain from eating ‘za FOUR days out of seven….but these cruel and twisted men sneak in orders of garlic knots to torture me and watch my self control crash & burn – i cannot help myself!!!
i cannot wait to make these. thank you joy!
These look like a perfect partner in crime for pasta nights; something to switch things up with the loaf of french bread norm.
My sister would love these. Also, the blog where you were inspired….thanks for the new addiction, haha. PS this response took me forever to write cause there’s a dog laying on my dominant arm.Sigh.
Why do you always do this to me? Now I totally want one of those garlic knots and I am completely unavailable to make one at this moment. Not cool. Ok, you’re cool, but me wanting that bread right this instant is not. I’ll try these later. Promise.
I could eat this with a plain bowl of marinara sauce. And by this – I mean 1 million garlic knots. :)
Mmmm, they really look yummy and … knotty. I must definitely try these!
There’s garlic in there… I’m definitely IN!
Soooo yummy… And yes, I like the look of the knotted dough… :-=
Yummy! Thanks Joy!
Swoon! This looks so good!
I agree…garlic knots = true happiness. LOVE these.
Ohhhhh Mylanta. (I heard someone say that on TV once when I was a kid–I think it was on Full House–and I feel like it is the only proper expression to use for these knots of glory.)
Garlicky…olive oil-y…whole wheaty…Joy, you know just how to make me unproductive on a Wednesday morning. (Also, the fact that they’re whole wheat totally means I can eat more of them, right? Right.)
I love this! I cannot wait to try them!
These look AMAZING!!! Do you think they would work with store-bought pizza dough???
gluten + garlic = yummy in my tummy
These would totally work with store bought dough!
omg. I had no idea how to make beautiful garlic knots until seeing this and now I probably can’t wait till an appropriate not 8am time to make them. YUM
This is going to be perfect for winter (yep, winter officially started today in NZ). With soup. And more butter. Yummm… Thanks for posting this Joy!
Yummmmm and hmmmm….it looks like I could use the Trader Joe’s pizza dough for these. Is it okay to cheat?
Go for it!
perfect! i have leftover whole wheat pizza dough in my fridge. i think it wants to be garlic knots..
Ah… knotty food always have a certain charm about them. Love the flavours of garlic and parsley, too!
OH YES!
Parmesean! You MUST add parmesean to the garlic/parsley/ butter mixture! :)
Okay, I feel myself getting fatter yet happier by the minute. I will be making these. NOW.
Those are the knottiest knots of all the knots. I know I’d love them!
P.S. I’m glad you like that dough f’sho!
Turn breakfast into dinner? Yes. But I’d also have garlic knots for breakfast… I’m equally opportunity like that.
oh man, you had me at garlic! i’ve always wanted to make garlic knots but every time that i have time to do it i totally forget…this has GOT to change. it’s not a healthy behavior :)
oh hello…these look the perfect accompaniment for a classy movie evening, maybe with a nice glass of vino…love it xxx
Those are so so fun Joy! I recently made some garlic tear and share hedgehog balls but i will definitely be trying knots next time! Or pizza dough…..
This looks absolutely delicious
I know what I’m making next week so my housemates don’t yell at me for forgetting to do the vacuuming again.
I love the look of knotted dough, too.
Favorite part has to be the garlic! These look terrific and the wholw wheat makes them healthy-right!
I was JUST thinking about garlic knots this week! Could you use all purpose flower instead of whole wheat? Would the measurements be different? Yum yum yum!!
Um….yum. Garlic, bread and butter, you can NEVER go wrong :D
Seriously magical. These look good!
I always have pizza dough leftover and now I know exactly what to do with it! Thanks for the deliciousness as ever.
Oh yum! I love the soft greasy garlicy part of the garlic knots the best:-)
These look fantastic! That top picture of the warm rolls in the parsley mixture makes me want. one. right. now!