Bread Baking: Tomato, Cheese, and Bacon Bread

Name: Bread Baking: Tomato, Cheese, and Bacon Bread
Prep time: 3 h
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 strips bacon; 383 grams cups bread flour, divided; 2 teaspoons instant yeast; 57 grams Monterrey Jack cheese, grated; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 Tbsp sugar; 2 Tbsps tomato paste; 237 milliliters lukewarm water

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Bread Baking: Tomato, Cheese, and Bacon Bread a try. One serving contains 288 calories, 11g of protein, and 10g of fat. This recipe covers 9% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 8. If you have monterrey jack cheese, bread flour, instant yeast, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 3 hours.

Instructions

Cook bacon until very crisp.

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Bacon

Drain and let cool, reserving 1 tablespoon of bacon fat. Crumble bacon and set aside.

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Bacon

In bowl of stand mixer, combine water, sugar, yeast, and about 1/3 of flour.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Water

Yeast

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Stand Mixer

Bowl

Mix well and let stand for 15 minutes.

Mixture will be frothy.

Add remaining bread flour and tomato paste. Knead with dough hook until dough becomes elastic.

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Tomato Paste

Bread Flour

Dough

Add cheese, crumbled bacon, salt, and reserved bacon fat and knead until all ingredients are incorporated and evenly distributed. Form dough into ball, drizzle with a bit of olive oil, and return to bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside until doubled, about one hour.

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Real Bacon Pieces