Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, italian bread bowls. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Italian Bread Bowls is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Italian Bread Bowls is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Get Italian Bread Bowls today with Drive Up, Pick Up or Same Day Delivery. This bread bowl dough needs to be a bit firmer than a roll/bread dough so that the bread bowls rise up instead of out. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook italian bread bowls using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Italian Bread Bowls:
- Take Ingredients
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp Active Dry Yeast (use 1 tbsp instant yeast)
- Get 2 1/2 cup Warm Water
- Get 2 tbsp White Sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp salt
- Get 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil
- Prepare 6 cup Flour (you can also use 1/2 whole wheat 1/2 all purpose flour)
- Get Egg Wash
- Get 1 Egg
- Make ready 1 tbsp water
- Take Spices (optional)
- Prepare 2 tsp garlic powder
- Get 2 tsp Italian Spice
- Prepare 2 tsp Cracked Pepper
Cover the bread bowls with greased plastic wrap. Two or more hours before serving, remove the bread bowls from the refrigerator. While sourdough bread seems to be the most popular choice for bread bowls, there are other varieties like sourdough seasoned with rosemary or another herb. Before a bread bowl becomes a bread bowl, it is really just a round loaf of bread.
Steps to make Italian Bread Bowls:
- In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water and sugar. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
- Add salt, oil, any spices and 4 cups flour to the yeast mixture; beat well. Stir in the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Beat well with an electric mixer at medium speed after each addition.
- When the dough has pulled together, turn it out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic, about 6 minutes.
- Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil.
- Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 40 minutes.
- Punch dough down, and divide into 8 equal portions. Shape each portion into a 4 inch round loaf. Place loafs on lightly greased baking sheets sprinkled with cornmeal.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 40 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Take a very sharp knife and cut two 1 inch slits in the center of each loaf. In a small bowl, beat together 1 egg and 1 tbsp water. Lightly brush the loaves with half of the egg wash.
- Bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes. Brush with remaining egg wash and bake 10 - 15 more minutes or until golden. Cool on wire racks
- To make bowls cut a 1/2 inch thick slice from the top of each loaf and scoop out the centers (leaving 3/4 inch thick shells. Fill with hot soup and serve immediately.
Once a round loaf is cut and hollowed out, it becomes a bread bowl as we know it. When you visit our website, we store cookies on your browser to collect information. The information collected might relate to you, your preferences or your device, and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to and to provide a more personalized web experience. This wonderful recipe for Italian Bread Bowls comes from Melanie at Mel's Kitchen Cafe. Just a little bit ago she posted her two favorite bread bowl recipes.
So that’s going to wrap this up for this exceptional food italian bread bowls recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I’m confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
