I’ve also been doing provel and peppered salami and it makes a great simple but unique sandwich bread for griddled hot sandwiches. Sorta like a Paine au Bacon.
Recipe:
450g KA Bread Flour
275g 105° water
100g starter
11g salt
- Mix starter and water in stand mixer with whisk, add salt, whisk.
- Add flour and mix until combined.
- Cover and rest for 10-15 minutes
- mix with dough hook for 5-7 minutes
- bulk ferment till doubled in size
- laminate in deli-style chopped jalapeños and shredded sharp cheddar
- cold proof at 40° for ~18 hours
- bake at 525 in covered Dutch oven with 2 ice cubes for 30 minutes
- bake on rack for ~15 minutes at 450-475 or until done
by CuriousDissonance
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A friend of mine just made cinnamon brown sugar date bread that was really good
I also love jalapeño and cheddar.
Last one I did it with red leicester and it took it to a new level, taste was great and the colour contrast looked awesome
I love jalapeño cheddar, too! A new favorite of mine is a havarti dill inclusion. It’s so good.
Looks yum! How do you get it so evenly distributed?
I love whole castranova olives. The dill havarti comment gave me an idea though, what about dill havarti and bacon??? 🤤
Sun dried tomatoes and garlic/onion or potatoes and cheese
looks great — i love jalapeno and cheddar bread. Do you always do ice cubes in your dutch oven? The evaporating water from the loaf is usually enough to keep your scores sufficiently separating — 525 is quite hot, if you’re getting heat-seared cuts (without ice cubes) you could drop that temp a bit to 485 even, or score deeper. You’ve got a great edge on that score — but I’m not seeing as much opening of the crumb, or exploding belly as I would expect to see underneath the rising ear in a cold-proofed bread. Your proofing process must be down solid to be putting out nice loaves like that. You might be able to get some extra spring or lift by omitting the ice cubes — just my 2 cents. Delicious!
I have a couple that I do on the regular in addition to jalapeno cheddar I often do:
Sun-dried tomato and Costal cheddar
Clemata olive and gruyere cheese
Jalapeño Cheddar is my favorite also
I just did one with cheddar, bacon and scallions, it made the best grilled cheese of my life.
I just made this last night! I used the little diced jalapenos. It is SO SPICY, but the people I made it for love it.
I undercooked my first batch of this and im very disappointed
Craisins and pistachios for me. YUM.
I want to try this. Do you use fresh jalapeños, or pickled ones?
So many favorites but cranberry walnut or caramelized onion and cheddar
Looks great! Nice distribution. Our favorites from the last year have included –
– Pepperoncini and smoked provolone
– castrelvano and Kalamata olives with lemon zest
– gochujang and roasted garlic
– chili crisp (or salsa macha)
– roasted green chile and cheddar
– tahini swirl and roasted garlic
– dark chocolate and chili
– dark chocolate and dried cherry
– white chocolate/cranberry/pistachio
– lots of mixed seeds
– cinnamon raisin
Love reading new ideas!
Feta and zaatar!
While people are here talking about inclusions:
I just made my first inclusion loaf, with roasted garlic and shaved parmesan. I left the garlic cloves whole but after baking, the cloves I think shrank slightly, meaning they were sitting in little pockets, so when you slice the bread the cloves just fall out.
Should I have chopped the garlic? Or did I miss something I could have done? I thought it would be cool to leave the cloves whole.
Blueberries and lemon zest. It is now requested at our 4th of July family gathering, so I think it’s everyone else’s too.
I did a pumpkin chocolate chip sourdough recently that was delicious if you want something sweet and if you like spicy my favorite is habanero and cheese!
That looks amazing, will definitely have to try that variation.
I have only tried jalapeno cheddar. If it ain’t broke, why fix it?
Jalapeño Cheddar with red chili pepper flakes
When do you add in your mix ins?
A favorite has been olive oil and rosemary, my son likes pepperoni and cheddar, I’ve done cinnamon and brown sugar and s’mores which were both delicious.
Breadgasm 😍🤤
I made a cinnamon honey butter one that was actually insane