Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, focaccia croque monsieur bread. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
Have you ever tried a croque monsieur? It's a crisp, buttery, fried ham and cheese sandwich popular in French bistros. Here, thin slices of ham and Swiss are layered between focaccia dough for the ultimate stuffed sourdough sandwich.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have focaccia croque monsieur bread using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread:
- Prepare 200 grams or French bread flour or all-purpose bread flour (Lys d'Or brand recommended), or substitute with bread and cake flour
- Make ready 5 grams Sugar
- Get 4 grams Salt
- Get 1 tbsp Skim milk powder
- Make ready 20 grams Virgin olive oil
- Get 120 ml Water
- Prepare 3 grams Instant Dry Yeast
- Get For the filling:
- Get 1 Bechamel sauce
- Get 4 to 8 slices Easy melt sliced cheese (see Hints)
- Make ready 4 slice Ham
- Make ready To finish
- Prepare 1 Extra virgin olive oil
- Get 1 Krazy Salt
- Get 1 Dried parsley
Croque Monsieur On The Grill is ideal for those nights when you don't want something huge and heavy but still want to eat a little gourmet-like. The herby Focaccia that I received from COBS Bread adds a whole new dimension to the whole experience. I mean, this thing is like a gourmet grilled cheese with sauce, and now herbed deliciousness. This Caprese Focaccia is exactly what it sounds like - Crisp and airy focaccia decked out with the classic components of a caprese salad.
Instructions to make Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread:
- Make the bechamel sauce, and let it cool.
- Put all the bread dough ingredients into a bread machine and start the "dough" program. Put the yeast in the specified location. Leave the bread machine do all the work until the first rising is complete.
- When the dough is done, take it out, deflate and divide into 4 pieces. Round off each piece, and cover with a tightly wrung moistened kitchen towel. Leave to rest for 15 minutes.
- Roll the dough out into a square, spread the middle with bechame sauce, and top with a slice each of ham and cheese folded in half. Bring the opposing corners of the dough together as shown.
- Bring all 4 corners of the dough together, and pinch to seal the seams.
- Place the 4 pieces of dough on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Setting your oven to the bread-rising setting, leave the dough to rise at 35 °C for 35-40 minutes (2nd rising).
- When the dough has risen, start preheating the oven to 210 °C. While waiting, brush the tops of the bread with olive oil and make several indentations in them using your fingers or the thick end of a chopstick.
- Brush a little more olive oil on the dough so that some of it pools in the indentations. Sprinkle with Krazy Salt and parsley to finish.
- Lower the oven temperature to 200°C and bake for 15 minutes. Adjust the temperature and baking time depending on your oven. If it looks like the bread is browning too fast, cover with a sheet of foil.
- I recommend eating these piping hot fresh out of the oven. I added skim milk powder to the dough to make it more tender, but they're also good cold.
- You can warm these up in a toaster oven after they've turned cold to revive the soft, fluffy texture.
- I used this instant bechamel sauce mix that you can make by just adding milk.
- The dough gets flattened when you make the indentations, so I give this a shorter 2nd rising than for usual bread.
The grape tomatoes and bocconcini are baked right into the bread while the basil is added as a final accent for maximum freshness. The buffet car on the TGVs between Paris and Geneva once served grilled croque-monsieur as good as any Parisien café, proving the maxim that quality ingredients make the dish! These being artisan bread, gruyère cheese and cured ham. This classic sandwich, eaten warm with melting cheese is a great classic of French bistrot or home cooking. I share here the grilled version in the oven, but some fry croque Monsieur in a pan.
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