GARLIC HERB AND CHEESE PULL APART BREAD
This pull apart bread is savory and sweet, topped with fresh herbs, garlic and cheese. Cut it into squared and pile on top of each other to fit in a loaf pan.
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Garlic Herb and Cheese Bread
Ingredients:
- 4 cups Flour
- 1/2 tbsp dried yeast granules
- 1/2 tbsp salt
- 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp dough enhancer
- 1 2/3 cup water at room temp
- 1/2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1/3 cup chopped parsley
- 1/3 cup chopped basil
- 1/4 cup chopped rosemary leaves
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 cup grated cheddar cheese (or grated Philly and Tasty Cheese)
Directions:
- Mix the flour, yeast, salt, sugar and dough enhancer together in a large bowl.
- Add half of the water to the dry ingredients and mix, slowly adding the remaining water while mixing. When all mixed together the ingredients should come together in a ball. Transfer to floured top.
- Add olive oil to ball of dough. Knead to ensure dough will rise and be fluffy. You want to kneed the dough until the texture is smooth and elastic.
- Return dough to bowl, cover with saran wrap and a tea towel to keep warm until mixture doubles in size. (note: this can take an hour or longer)
- When risen, knock dough back in the bowl and take it out. Cut it in half and roll each half out to a large rectangle, then trim edges to straighten.
- Spread top of each with 1/2 butter then scatter the crushed garlic, herb mixture and grated cheese over both rectangles.
- Cut each rectangle into strips, to the height of your loaf pans, with sharp knife and lay the strips on to of each and cut the layered strips into squares the width of your pans.
- Grease or line the loan pans, then stack the squares on top of each other, turning the stack on it's side and place them into the pan (don't worry if your dough doesn't reach the edge of the pans, the dough will rise again). Cover pans in saran wrap and set aside for 30 minutes. At this stage, if you want to freeze the loafs, you can.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Remove saran wrap from pans and bake for 55 minutes or until the tops are golden brown. Remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes before removing from loaf pan. Serve warm.
