Cheesy Bread

Prep Time: 35 minutes.

Cook Time: 45 minutes.

Total Time: 80 minutes.

Yield: 6 Servings

Nutrition Information: 320 Calories Per Serving - 2 Slices.

Ingredients:
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Instructions:
  • Step 1 - Gather your ingredients. For this recipe, you will need #1 - 1 Cup grated cheddar cheese, #2 - 3/4 shredded Parmesan cheese, #3 - 2 TBSP of Garlic Confit aka Garlic Love, and #4 - fresh bread dough.
  • Step 2 - Mixing ingredients into dough - In a mixing box, put in both cheeses and the Garlic Confit aka Garlic Love, and slow mix into the dough. It can get messy and you are bound to get some garlic on your hands. Don't over mix it.
  • Step 3 - Rest Dough for 30 minutes. You're dough, cheese, and garlic should be mixed well. Place it on a parchment paper round, with a kitchen towel over the top. Turn on the oven to 450 degrees, and place the dutch oven in the oven, with the lid, to heat up. Move your oven racks if you need to. The dutch oven should sit in the middle of the oven, front-to-back and top-to-bottom. Below is what your dough should look like once mixed.
  • Step 4 - Begin cooking bread. Remove the dutch oven from the oven. Carefully, drop the parchment paper and dough loaf into the dutch oven. Put the lid on and return it to the oven for cooking at 450 degrees for 30 minutes. A bit about safety. I also have dedicated kitchen towels for when I pick up a hot dutch oven and start moving it around. The rule with my towels is no water. I keep the towels separate from other family members who can get the towels wet. When your towels get damp, the heat can go through the towels, into your hands, and burn you quickly. Sometimes it's hard to feel when your towels get wet. I hate being burned. I even go so far as to lay the towels on the hot dutch oven when it's sitting on the stove top so I don't accidentally touch it. The towels remind me to watch out.
  • Step 5 - Remove the lid and continue cooking. After the cheese bread has cooked for 30 minutes, remove the lid and cook for another 15 minutes at 450 degrees. You can remove the dutch oven from the oven, remove the lid, then place it back in the oven. However, I like to reach in the oven, with my dry kitchen towel, and simply grab the lid, remove it, close the oven door, and call it good. I think it's faster and I lose less heat this way. Also, I leave the kitchen towel lying over the lid so know one grabs it, and if they do, they are protected.
  • Step 6 - Remove bread from the oven and rest it. You are almost there. Remove the bread from the oven. Turn the oven off. Remove the lid from the dutch oven with your trusty, dry kitchen towel. Set it aside with a towel over the top. Grab the edges of the parchment paper being careful not to touch the dutch oven, then lift the bread out of the dutch oven and onto a cooling rack.