Recipe & Video Garlic & Scallions Cheese Bread

[Hungry Man]

View: https://youtu.be/kmTwAM0THjI


Ingredients
Dough:

• 2 cups/ 250 g all purpose flour
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 tsp dry yeast
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 egg, whisked
• 3 tbsp butter
• ½ cup milk

Toppings:

• 250 g mozzarella cheese
• 2 tbsp butter (soft, room temperature)
• 1 clove of garlic
• ½ tsp salt
• 2 tbsp scallions or chives (finely chopped)

Instructions

1. Into a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, yeast, salt and mix
2. Whisk 1 egg (save ¼ for brushing) and add together with 3 tbsp melted butter and ½ cup milk
3. Knead until smooth
4. Let the dough rest on a baking tray for 1 hour and rise
5. Smash the garlic with ½ tsp salt
6. Add to a bowl together with 2 tbsp butter and mix
7. Finely chop 2 tbsp of chives and mix with the garlic butter
8. Slice the mozzarella into thin strips
9. With a very sharp knife or scoring knife, score the dough with deep cuts
10. Brush the dough with the remaining egg wash
11. Brush the surface with garlic butter
12. Fill the cuts with mozzarella slices
13. Bake at 200°C / 390°F for 25-30 minutes

 

[TastyReuben]

Bookmarked!

 

[Burt Blank]

Ditto

 

[Hungry Man]

I saw a similar recipe from Lasycook with a bit of difference, so decided to post this as well. Hope you'll like this one

 

[mjd]

That looks delicious. Thanks for posting.

 

[Hungry Man]

That looks delicious. Thanks for posting.

Thank you, it was really heavenly, took 3-4 minutes to disappear

 

[mjd]

Can anyone help me? I made this and the crust was harder than I expected. I cooked it for 25 minutes exactly. I want to try again but I don't know what I did wrong.

 

[Hungry Man]

Can anyone help me? I made this and the crust was harder than I expected. I cooked it for 25 minutes exactly. I want to try again but I don't know what I did wrong.

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did you follow the exact steps with the ingredients? Might be the flour or maybe too much kneading?

 

[mjd]

did you follow the exact steps with the ingredients? Might be the flour or maybe too much kneading?

Yes. I did it exactly as written. I don't know about the kneading. I didn't time it. I just stopped when it looked like yours. ;-0

 

[mjd]

I found this online...

My bread is like a brick - it has a dense, heavy texture...

If the bread has a heavy, close texture and hasn’t risen very well then there are a number of reasons for this. The flour could have too low a protein content, there could be too much salt in the bread recipe, you did not knead it or leave it to prove for long enough or you could have killed the yeast by leaving the dough to rise in a place that was too hot.

Source: Bread baking; tips for better bread baking

I did wonder if I let it rise enough because it didn't have a visible difference. I'm going to try again today.

 

[mjd]

I was just wondering if I can leave it as a ball to let it rise and then shape it. Do you think that might help?

TastyReuben, I need your help too. Yeast is not my friend again. ;-(

 

[mjd]

Before & After...it's hard to tell in the photos but it didn't really rise (but I have an untrained eye).

 

[Hungry Man]

I found this online...



I did wonder if I let it rise enough because it didn't have a visible difference. I'm going to try again today.

should normally be twice in size, did you check the expiry date of your yeast or did you proof?

 

[Hungry Man]

Before & After...it's hard to tell in the photos but it didn't really rise (but I have an untrained eye).

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yes doesn't seem to be risen enough. Looks also too greasy to me

 

[mjd]

should normally be twice in size, did you check the expiry date of your yeast or did you proof?

I bought the yeast just for this purpose so it was fresh. I added the yeast to the dry ingredients like in the video.

yes doesn't seem to be risen enough. Looks also too greasy to me

The second photo is after the egg wash. I should have put that in that post. Or, did you mean it looks greasy in the 1st photo?