Dough:
3¾ cup bread flour
1½ cup water
1Tbsp dry active yeast
½ dry buttermilk
1½tsp salt
3 Tbsp butter room temp
¼ cup parmesean finely grated
Filling:
1/4cup tomato paste
1/2 can tomato sauce
1Tbsp butter
1tsp crushed red pepper
2Tbsp thyme
2Tbsp garlic powder
1/8 cup of red wine
1/2 pack of trader joes ciao pepperoni, halved
Sprinkling of mozzerella
Sprinkling of dubliner Chedder
Sprinkling of parmesan
Let yeast hydrate in water a @ 95f⁰
Mix in milk powder and beaten egg
Add remaining dry ingredients (including parmesan)and mix by hand to shaggy mass
Knead in stand mixer w/ dough hook at speed 2 for 15 minutes
Add butter with 4 minutes remaining
Ferment @ room temp for 1 hr, pumch down and place in fridge to rest for another 1.5 hrs
To prepair sauce melt butter on med heat
Add garlic powder and red pepper, saute for 2 mins
Add tomato paste, sauce, wine and thyme
Simmer until it's more of a tomato gel than sauce
Preheat oven to 350f⁰
Remove dough from fridge and strech to large rectangle
Spread tomato gel evenly
Sprinkle with 3 cheeses
Lay pepperoni without overlapping
Make a tight roll by folding long end of dough until to form a log and press to seal seam
With a sharp wet knife cut log down the center, leaving on end intact
Twist both tails of bifurcated log into rope twist, laying one tail over the other, while carefully keeping the lamination together as best as you can
In one smooth motion, scoop both ends of your twisted log underneath the main body to meet in the center underneath and place in a parchment paper lined bread tin.
Leg rest for 15 mins and grate more parm on top
Bake for 45 mins, rotating half way through.
by h2ogood4me
9 Comments
Look up “Stromboli”. You put one in a loaf pan.
King Arthur calls it scaccia and yours looks phenomenal
I see I eat
The 3rd pic is oddly satisfying. Now I wanna make one. Pepe Loaf
For science purposes you need to slice this make a grilled cheese with only cheese between the two bread slices, then post it on r/grilledcheese to see if you become a hero or a villain.
Before I joined this sub, I’d never saved a post. Since joining y’all keep giving me reasons to use the function. Definitely want to try making this one. Thanks for the post.
A similar thing was done in Sweden in the 70’s and 80’s. We cut them up as buns and called them pizza buns. We’re perfect as a snack on Fridays.
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