Jalapeño & Cheese Pull Apart Bread
Make on Fresco
A fantastic special occasion bread to serve to hungry guests or family, no complaints here! Toasted or untoasted, cue the butter.
This could be one of my all time greats. I do have trouble with my top 100 say, but this would definitely be in that list, were there one.
Oh yes! This bread is so divine and more-ish that you will be making it for many an occasion. Add a salad and some sliced cold meats of choice. It is fantastic when toasted, if it lasts long enough to need toasting. Slathered in butter, as part of a cheeseboard, with soups of choice. Go for it..and think of the possibilities...other cheeses, tomatoes, olives, anchovies even! So many ideas, so little bread to go around.
Need
- 100 Grams parmesan cheese cubed
- 100 Grams provolone, cubed
- 30 Grams Yeast-fresh or 2 tsp dried yeast
- 300 Grams water
- 1 Teaspoon sugar
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 500 Grams bakers or strong flour
- Generous pinch pink salt flakes BUY
- A few pickled jalapeños, to taste
Do
- 1
Place cheeses into Thermomix bowl and mill 8 sec/speed 10. Remove from bowl and set aside.
- 2
Place yeast, water, sugar and EVOO into Thermomix bowl and warm 2 min/37°C/speed 2.
- 3
Add flour and salt and blend 6 sec/speed 6.
- 4
Knead 3 min/dough setting/Interval Leave in bowl for 10 minutes.
- 5
Knead 2 min/dough setting/Interval. Tip onto floured Silpat mat and knead into a ball. Cover and allow to rise for around 10 minutes.
- 6
Preheat oven to 220°C and line base of 23cm springform tin with baking paper. Butter sides of tin.
- 7
Roll out dough into large circle. Sprinkle with cheese, reserving a little for the top of the bread. Top with a few jalapeños, the more you use, the hotter it will be.
- 8
Cut dough and toppings using spatula into narrow wedges as though you were cutting pieces of a pie.
- 9
Starting with the outside edge of each piece, roll up, finishing with the narrow end. Curve the dough to form a croissant shape and place into the prepared tin. Repeat until all the dough is used, and the baking tin is quite full. Sprinkle with remaining cheese. Allow to prove until well risen.
- 10
Bake 15–20 minutes or until golden and sounding hollow when tapped in the centre. Serve hot.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
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