I’m so proud of these rolls and so excited to share them with you and bring them to this week’s Fiesta Friday..Angie’s blog party extraordinaire rolls on in its 57th week of fabulousness this week 😀..I hope everyone gets to try one!
I basically added chopped black garlic to my standard wholemeal bread dough, gently kneading it into the dough once the dough had proved to mix it through, shaped the rolls, let these prove again whilst the oven heated up, and baked as usual, and the outcome was a bread roll studded with bursts of the black garlic sweetness – almost like sweet bread with raisins or dried fruit. A big fat YUM!
I tried these with my homemade labneh: labneh is a middle eastern cheese which is basically made by straining yoghurt, and that’s pretty much it! You can use any kind of yoghurt, I often use a 0% fat greek yoghurt so I create 0% fat cheese for myself, but I’ve also used whatever plain yoghurt I’ve had in the fridge.
You literally just spoon the yoghurt into muslin, add any flavourings you fancy, then hang it to strain overnight and by the next day it’s done! I, of course, tried this with black garlic too..
As I don’t have a cool frame to hang it on, I tie up the muslin and hang it over the handle of my jug to catch the juice – make sure to tuck in the rest of the muslin otherwise the liquid travels down the fabric and all over your fridge shelf, as I found out…! It worked really well with the black garlic cloves, just chop some into the yoghurt and let it do its work, when you come to use the labneh you will see that the cloves almost melt into the cheese and spread easily with it.
I made a selection of flavours including smoked paprika and za’atar..
I even added some goji berries to another portion and made a sweet cheese which was lovely!
The black garlic version went very well atop a roasted sweet potato for lunch..
I hope you’ve enjoyed my black garlic experiments this week, do check out what else I’ve done with it in previous posts this week on here and on Instagram, and don’t forget that you can still receive a 10% discount and free delivery in the UK from Balsajo Black Garlic until the end of tomorrow, 28th, by inputting ‘foodbod’ as a discount code.
Have fun, happy partying and happy weekend xx
Elaine, I just told the weight loss group I’m coaching how to flavor labne, and here you are with your recipes! I’ve shared your post to Facebook to spread the fabulousness.
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Brilliant! Thank you 🙂
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B E A U T I F U L
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Thank you x x
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Labneh and bread! that’s already delicious meal! 🙂
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It is!! Thank you 😀
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Oooh, that garlic labneh looks so good Elaine! Would love it on top of roasted aubergine 🙂
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Ooh, nice idea!!
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Your bread and cheese look absolutely stunning! I love it! And the magic you perform with that garlic …
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Thank you 🙂 I’ve enjoyed playing with it x
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Lovely post Elaine. I have never thought to flavour the yoghurt prior to hanging. What lovely colours you can create when doing so! Thank you, I’ll give it a whirl and share tips with another labne making friend! Donna x
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Hi Donna, thank you so much for reading and commenting – I’m glad you enjoyed the post 🙂
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Everything is wonderful! I am a big fan of labneh never flavored it, Love what you did.
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Thank you 🙂
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Elaine, your Labneh looks amazing and the rest is just perfect 🙂 xx
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Thank you xx
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So wonderful, Elaine! Your flavours are bursting off the screen! 😀
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Thank you so much xx
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Wow thid bread looks great Elaine. ….
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Thank you xx
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Such gorgeousness – I’m on a quest to finding more challenges in the bread baking arena, I’ll be adding this to that challenge 🙂
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Cool! I hope you like it 🙂 xx
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You’re killing me with this black garlic Elaine! I NEED to try it! Those rolls look amazing
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Yay! Thank you xx try it!! Last day to receive my discount today xx
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This sounds really good! Thanks for the cheese-making tips–I will have to try that!
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My pleasure, thank you x
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Wow looks amazing:-)
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Thank you xx
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I’ve never seen black garlic before!
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It’s fab stuff!!
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Yummm black garlic. This is amazing. I would LOVE to try these. What a brilliant idea. And i love that you paired it with homemade labneh. SO SO good.
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Thank you so much 🙂
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Oh this is really nice. The flavor of garlic with labneh would be really nice.
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It is! Thank you xx how’s your little man doing?
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He is doin great. 4 th month now. Time goes so fast. 🙂
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Cute! I bet he’s smiling now?
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Yep he is. 😊
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Lovely xx
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My black garlic arrived last week and I am collecting recipes – thanks for more! Fascinating “veggie” and I am anxious to try it out 🙂
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Cool! I look forward to seeing how you get on 🙂 x
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Lovely flavours and what a great way to use black garlic!
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Thank you xx
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I love learning all about the black garlic and what a fantastic post this is…photos look AMAZING, too! 🙂
It’s very interesting how the yogurt cheese (as we call it here) turned out with the black garlic! And those buns!
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Thank you so much xxxx
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Love the contrast with the black! I saw some black garlic at Trader Joes and wondered how to use it. Now I know, thanks to you! YUM
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My pleasure 🙂
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I didn’t realise labneh was so easy to make! I always have heaps of yoghurt in the fridge so will give it a go.
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Cool 🙂
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A beautifully combined amazing recipe! I think this is the best black garlic recipe for so far,..;ooh yes! xI wish I could put my teeth into those yummy bans & with that home-made labneh on top: waw! xxxx
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Yay!! Thank you xx
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I meant yummy buns!
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Those rolls look spectacular! The black garlic would have been lovely with your flavoured labne!
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It was! Thank you x
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So now we’re talking! these rolls look so yummy, but this cheese!! OMG! I really need to get myself into the black garlic affair, as I love cheese with some nice additions to it. You know my mom makes white cheese- my parents have a cow, imagine fresh milk every day, my boyfriend- typical French- was so happy to have a hot chocolate every day and this fresh white cheese! Would you consider using plums- prunes- instead of black garlic??
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You’ve reminded me of staying on a farm in France as a child and having fresh milk every day 🙂 amazing!
And yes, I would indeed consider trying the cheese with fruit, I made one with goji berries which was lovely, the berries went into the yoghurt hard and dried as they are, and once the labneh had drained and was ready, the berries had hydrated and plumped up and it was lovely! Cheese and fruit, a perfect combination 🙂 xx
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Elaine I will email you this week- I’m thinking maybe we could do something together?? Would you like that?
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You read my mind……we are the same when it comes to challenges!!! That sounds good to me xx
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