Quick And Easy Dough Balls With Garlic Butter Dip

Indulge in these delicious, melt-in-your-mouth dough balls with a tangy garlic butter dip. Perfect for a quick and easy appetizer or snack.

Why You'll LOVE This Recipe

Use cheat ingredients - we use cheats so these dough balls are super easy to make (and you'll actually have time to do them!)

Oh that garlic butter dip.... there is something so deliciously tasty about homemade garlicky butter, it's super yummy soaked into those warm bread balls.

You can make it using leftover bread dough - this recipe is perfect for making with leftover dough.

Easy Dough Balls Recipe

Serves – 4

Prep Time – 10 minutes 

Cook Time - 10 minutes

Total Time – 20 minutes

Our Most Popular Alternative – Cheese Pull Apart Bread

Equipment Needed

• Baking tray (baking sheet)
• Knife
• Small saucepan
• Chopping board
• Vegetable knife
• Cheese grater
• Teaspoon

Ingredients For Easy Dough Balls 

Everything you need to make yummy dough balls with a delicious garlicky butter dip

For the dough balls 

• 400g pizza dough (you can use shop bought dough - we used Pizza Express dough)

For the garlic butter dip

• 150g salted butter
• 3 cloves garlic - peeled and grated using the fine side on the grater
• 1 teaspoon dried parsley - you can use fresh parsley finely chopped if you prefer
• pinch ground black pepper

How To Make Easy Garlic Dough Balls

You'll LOVE how simple these bread balls are to make and cook

Step One - preheat the oven

• Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas mark 6.

Step Two - shape the dough balls

• Break the dough into ping pong sized balls, roll into balls, using the palm of your hand, rolling the dough against the worktop.
• Place the dough ball onto a baking sheet lined with greaseproof or baking paper. Bake in the oven for around 10 minutes or until the dough balls are cooked through and just starting to lightly colour.

Step Three - make the garlic butter dip

• Whilst the dough balls are baking make a quick garlic butter dip.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the grated garlic cloves a teaspoon of dried parsley and a pinch of black pepper and stir until melted.

Step Four - serve the easy dough balls

• Pour the garlic butter into a serving bowl.
• Add the dough balls to a serving platter with the buttery dip and serve straight away whilst they're still warm.

What Do Garlic Dough Balls Go With?

You can serve garlic dough balls with lots of different dishes, but they tend to go really well with Italian food like pasta dishes or pizza.

• Heart Shaped Pizza
• Sausage Pasta
• Bolognese Pasta Bake

Helpful Tips

You don't need to be neat - dough balls are rustic, you don't need to be neat here, they'll taste good even if they're messy!

Try keep the dough balls evenly sized - keeping the dough balls roughly the same size means they'll cook evenly.

Don't overcook them - you don't want these golden brown and hard, you want them very lightly colouring and still squidgy and soft to eat.

Make the dip with olive oil - if you prefer you could swap the butter for olive oil and make a garlicky oil dip instead.

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