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Savoury Cheese & Garlic Olive Oil Pull-Apart Bread
Ingredients
1 portion dough {recipe follows}
- 200 gm sharp cheddar {or mozzarella}
- Preserved chili peppers {or olives roasted bell peppers etc}
- 50-75 gm unsalted butter melted, cooled
Dough {from The Pioneer Womans cinnamon rolls; can be made a day ahead}
- 2 cups whole milk warm
- 1/2 cup light olive oil
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 heaping spoon salt
- 4-5 cloves garlic minced
- 2-3 tbsp dried Italian herbs {or fresh}
- 1 tsp red chili flakes
- 1 package active dry yeast
- 4 cups {plus 1/2 cup extra separated} all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon {heaping} baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon {scant} baking soda
- 1/2 to 3/4 cup roasted almonds chopped fine
Instructions
Dough
- Mix the milk, olive/vegetable oil and sugar in a pan (LARGE POT).
- Sprinkle in the Active Dry Yeast. Let this sit for a minute {5-10 minutes}.
- Then add 4 cups of all-purpose flour. Stir mixture together. Cover and let rise for at least an hour.
- After rising for at least an hour, add 1/2 more cup of flour, the baking powder, baking soda and salt. Knead the dough for a minute or two before the final rise as it seems to work some elasticity into the dough, making it more pliable. {I made the dough in my Thermomix. You could use dough hooks or your processor as the dough is quite soft/doughy/sticky}
- {At this point, you could cover the dough and put it in the fridge until you need it – overnight or even a day or two, if necessary. Keep your eye on it and if it starts to overflow out of the pan, just punch it down}
Savoury Chili Cheese & Garlic Pull-Apart Bread
- Grease the sides of an 8″ Victoria sandwich tin, and line the base.
- Roll the dough out into a large rectangle, about 1/4″ thick, and pour over half the melted butter, spreading evenly with an offset spatula.
- Grate cheddar all over, and sprinkle over with chopped pickled chili peppers.
- Roll the larger end like a swiss roll. With a sharp knife {or floss} cut into12 portions, and place cut side up in the prepared tin all around the edges. There will be gaps in the dough, don’t worry. All the gaps get filled in as the bread rises before and during baking. {You could also use a muffin tray. I lined the bottoms with circles of parchment and greased the sides.}
- Place a dessert ring/mold in the centre so that the dough doesn’t spread inward. Cover with greased plastic wrap and let rise until doubled, about an hour.
- Bake at 180°C for 40-45 minutes. Cover with foil for the last 10 minutes of baking to prevent over browning. Brush with the remaining melted butter as soon as it comes out.
- Leave in the pan for 15-20 minutes, then loosen the sides with a butter knife and turn out.
- Serve warm or at room temperature. {The bread tastes good the next day too, sliced and reheated on a non stick pan with a few drops of EVOO}
Notes
- I made half the above portion.
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A splendid savory bread! Those flavors are just mouthwatering.
Cheers,
Rosa
Gorgeous color on that bread. And boy, I am in love and lust for those chilies!
This is a recipe which makes you want to bake again and again, I had baked these twice in 3 days! Seriously easy and delish! Your savory version looks very tempting.. cheese, chilli, garlic and herbs, yumm! – I got to to try this!
My favorite bread of all times is similar to that, and coincidentally, I baked a loaf just today! Will post it in a couple of days. I will have to try your version, I can almost smell the deliciousness!
Your doggy is so so cute!
Garlic,cheese in anything is my fav, incredible bread, feel like having some rite now..
OMG!!!!! I want to try this lovely and incredible bread as soon as possible ;))))
You’re great!!
Erika (from Italy)
Yum! This bread sounds so amazing! I love it! I want a bite right now! 🙂
Your photos are amazing.Deeba.But some doesn’t show on my screen.I’m craving for some cheesy garlic bread now.
Happy Birthday to coco, i live his hair style 🙂 and the rolls look super super yumm.
This bread sounds wonderful! Love the flavors of garlic and chiles, and I bet it was perfect with the tomato soup. Happy 6 mo. Birthday to Coco!
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Just by looking to the photo, the bread looks so yummy, perfect if you eat it with espresso. Thank you for sharing you recipe. I have another addition in my recipe book.
HI Deeba,
Not sure if I have ever had a chance to leave you a comment before, but I wanted to say you have a splendid blog. I’m not much of a baker myself, but I do appreciate all the hard work that goes into it (especially since I hardly ever get it right! :)). Love all your posts – the recipes, the photography, the layout – everything!
Keep up the inspiring work!
Cheers,
Divya
I am completely in love with your blog (and Coco!) Not just are you pretty brilliant at the baking, but your photographs are to die for! 🙂 Cant wait to try my hands on this savoury bread. Just a query- how much yeast is required for this bread (in gms?) Am a novice at using yeast so would love some babysitting 🙁
Gorgeous, darling! I would gobble that up anytime =)
The bread looks just lovely!
This pull-apart bread is such an amazing idea. I have never seen anything like this before (stone me if I am strange and it has been around for ages :)). I wish, I could come up with this kind of creative food ideas :)!
This is my kind of pull apart bread…savory! I looks so good! The dog is adorable…how cute is Coco!!!!
First things first…Coco has become such a daaarrrrling! Look at her ‘fringe’. But she doesn’t LOOK naughty anymore, more like a lady with uncontrolled hair growth… 🙂
The pull apart bread looks and sounds delicious….I would prefer this to the sweet version any day. You can’t beat the cheese, garlic, pepper and herb combo, though I might try to squeeze in tomato somewhere as well..
Your bread looks amazing! I made something similiar 2 days ago, will post soon but yours is definitely better than mine 🙂
And congratulations to Coco.. She is sooo cute!
YUM! I keep coming across all of these absolutely lovely variations on cinnamon rolls and I can’t wait to try some out. This sounds divine!
Also, happy 6 months to Coco. What a doll!
My heart belongs to savoury too and this bread is right up my street. As well as the bread pics really enjoyed the Thai plant and Coco shots.
Beautiful. Might give this one a go. I love yeasted breads and such flavour combination is irresistible
and yes.. coco looks so so so cute..
Oh YUM – this looks wonderful. I am a huge fan of the pull apart concept and these look just fantastic. Will go with anything 🙂 Just some plain butter for me.