This Cheesy Garlic Bread is the best accompaniment to all our favourite dishes – and it’s perfect for Slimming World, Weight Watchers or Calorie Counting plans!
We adore Cheesy Garlic Bread. If we could… we’d have it with every meal till the end of days! Garlic bread using Wholemeal bread doesn’t sound like our idea of fun, so we made this Cheesy Garlic Bread using Schar White Ciabatta.
For the full list of ingredients and comprehensive instructions, please see the recipe card at the end of this post. Before you scroll, there’s important stuff in the blurb 👍
How many Syns are in this Cheesy Garlic Bread?
You might be sat there asking yourself, how exactly can this by Syn free. Well, it can only be Syn free if you use some of one of your Healthy Extra A allowances as well as your Health Extra B.
Each piece of Cheesy Garlic Bread is half of a white Schar Ciabatta. Half of a Schar Ciabatta is 1/2 your HEB.
If you use Light Cheddar then you use just 1/4 of one of your Healthy Extra A’s per piece (10g on each).
You can find Schar Ciabattas in the Free From aisle of most supermarkets. You can also buy them from the Schar online shop.
You could even serve this Cheesy Garlic Bread as a light lunch with some salad or veg – why not choose something from our Slimming World Speed Food List?
How Weight Watchers friendly is this Cheesy Garlic Bread recipe?
Shop or restaurant bought cheese garlic bread can set you back anything from 5 to 25 points.
Our Cheesy Garlic Bread is just 3 Points per portion – you’ll never want to buy it ready made again!
Why not have this Cheesy Garlic Bread as a side dish to our Creamy Tomato Pasta?
How many Calories are in this Cheesy Garlic Bread?
A standard, shop bought slice of Cheesy Garlic Bread has around 125 calories.
Our version has just 85 calories, but without losing any of the amazing flavour!
Wait! So this Cheesy Garlic Bread doesn’t use butter?!
Correct! No butter at all. How? We used a quick spray of Low Calorie Cooking Spray. A couple of sprays on each is all that you’d need.
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What do I need to make this Cheesy Garlic Bread?
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You might think that this recipe uses a tiny amount of cheese. Take a look at the image below.. this is how much cheese you get when grate 40g of cheese with a regular box grater.
Whist it looks like a lot, when you try and spread it around a piece of toast or two, you’re not going to get very far.
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It’s really remarkable how much more it looks like you get, just by grating it finer.
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Do you put tomato on your Cheesy Garlic Bread?
Yes, we do, the more vegetables the better, right? We used a tomato sauce that we make in the pressure cooker/slow cooker and that recipe will be up very soon.
You can use some tomatoes/chopped tomatoes under the cheese. Makes it taste fab!
How do I make this Cheesy Garlic Bread?
Step 1
Preheat your oven to 200C
Step 2
Slice the Schar Ciabattas in half and place on an oven tray
Step 3
Bash the garlic with the back of a knife and rub the ciabatta well. If you like your garlic bread very garlicky then chop finely and scatter on the ciabatta.
Step 4
Spray the ciabatta with Low Calorie Cooking Spray and place in the oven for 5 minutes
Step 5
Take them out of the oven, top with tomatoes & cheese and scatter some of the parsley on top. Return to the oven until the cheese has melted. Enjoy!
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Cheesy Garlic Bread
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Servings |
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Cooking Time |
| portions | 10 minutes | 10 minutes |
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Calories |
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Slimming World |
| 85kcal |
3 Smart Points (Flex/Freestyle) |
Zero Syns |
| Per portions | Per portions | Per portions |
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INGREDIENTS
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- 2 Schar White Ciabatta sliced in half - your HEB or 5 syns per portion
- Low Calorie Cooking Spray
- 1 Garlic Cloves Peeled but leave whole
- 5 g Fresh Parsley chopped finely
- 40 g Light Cheddar Cheese finely grated - half your HEA or 3 syns per portion
- 4 tbsp Chopped Tomatoes
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat your oven to 200C
- Slice the Schar Ciabattas in half and place on an oven tray
- Bash the garlic with the back of a knife and rub the ciabatta well. If you like your garlic bread very garlicky then chop finely and scatter on the ciabatta.
- Spray the ciabatta with Low Calorie Cooking Spray and place in the oven for 5 minutes
- Take them out of the oven, top with tomatoes & cheese and scatter some of the parsley on top. Return to the oven until the cheese has melted. Enjoy!
RECIPE NOTES
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Hi, where do I get the Schar white ciabatta from please ? I take it this is part of or all of my HEB ?
I really like the sound of this and can’t wait to try it.
Many thanks
Hi Liz
Asda, Tesco and Sainsburys usually stock them. Schar also have an online store if you can’t get hold of them, which is linked to in the article. One whole ciabatta is your HEB, so you could either use all of your HEB or half.
We used the cheese as part of our HEA, or you could syn it if you prefer
I found this in Co op
Truly amazing, I love cheese and bread oh and garlic so this was a little bit of heaven. My new go to “naughty” snack😍
Hey – if not using as HEB what would syn be for this please? 😊 Thanks in advance!
Hi Bethany
The Schar ciabattas 5 syns each if you’re not using it as your HEB
Wow! Now can you wavr your magic wand and.conjure up a lovely.cold.bottle of.syn free prossecco?!!!😅
Hi Karen
Sadly not! lol
The SlimmingWorld app says the ciabatta is 5 syns, how is this recipe Sun free?
Hi Martin
The Schar ciabattas, white and brown are an HEB option. Scroll further down the page on the app and you’ll find it
how many syns is the ciabatta if we dont use it as a HE?
Hi Sioned
They are 5 syns each for the white ones. The brown are slightly different I think
Hello. Do you know if it’s still syn free if the brown ciabatta rolls are used instead of white?
Hi Nadine
Yes the Schar brown ciabatta rolls are also an HEB so you can use them instead
Is it both heb just one whole ciabatta brown
Hi Sarah
1 full ciabatta equals 1 HEB
Can’t wait to try garlic bread .Will get SChar bread Asaph
Hi Pat
Let us know what you think 🙂
The ultimate syn free garlic bread. So tasty. Went superb with my pasta dish. Defo a firm favourite. Thank you for all your fab recipes and inspiration. It keeps SW interesting and always a new dish to try from your fab website. 10/10
Hi Tracy,
So glad you enjoyed it! 💕
Hello. Could you use the garlic fry light instead of the olive oil and a garlic cloves? Thanks.
Hi Rachel
Yes you could use the garlic frylight if you prefer
Does it have to be those ciabattas or can you use any as the gluten free are like cardboard 🙈
Hi Lesley
The Schar ciabattas are the only ones that are an HEB option and in our opinion are nothing like other gluten free bread products
As I’m not allowed to eat anything with pips in I used the flesh of fresh tomatoes mixed with a little passata. This will not alter the values will it?
Hi Sally
No it won’t, passata doesn’t have any syns unless it contains oil
Tried these last week, totally lush. Sooo missed garlic bread. On the second lot I made I had run out of fresh garlic so used the garlic fry light & it works just as well.
Are these fresh or frozen ciabatta plz
Hi Julie
They are fresh not frozen. They’re like a part baked roll
I made these tonight…. Absolutely deeeelish!!!
Hi Sarah
Glad you like it
Made a few times now. Just amazing. Thank you
I’ve tried the code for the grater, and it’s not being recognised 🙁 maybe I’m just a little late trying to use it x
Hi Tamsin
This may well have been a time-sensitive offer. Thanks for getting in touch though.
Just so I know I’ve got this right, if only using 1/4 of HeA of cheese (10g per half ciabatta) I would then still have half of my HeA left for the day?
Hi Laura
You will be using 1 quarter of your HEA, so you will have 3 quarters left
It says that half a ciabatta is half your heB is that correct?
Hi Rebecca
The SW app lists 1 x Schar ciabatta roll as an HEb choice, so yes, half a ciabatta roll (one piece of the garlic bread recipe) is half your HEb. Hope that helps.
Made this tonite was really lovely especially when you knew it was free
Hi Karen
Glad you like it
What does hea mean
Hi Julie,
It means Health Extra A 😊
Hi Can I be any gluten free ciabatta bread.
Hi Ciara
The Schar GF Ciabatta is the only ciabatta listed as a HEX B choice, which is why we’ve used it in this recipe. 🙂
I made these tonight, absolutely SUPERB!! great work PON team 😍
So glad you enjoyed them! 🙂
Hi just wondering can you freeze them
Hi Susan
We haven’t given this recipe a freezer symbol. The bread would probably dry out a bit too much to freeze successfully. 🙂
Can I use tinned tomatoes or does it have to be fresh tomatoes? if so do I mash the tomatoes down?
Hi Emily
You can use tinned tomatoes, but you’ll need to drain them really well so that it doesn’t make the bread soggy!