05 March, 2010

Pepperoni Cheese Bread

1 batch of my favorite pizza dough

1 tablespoon instant yeast
1 cup water
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups flour

-Dissolve yeast in water and oil. Stir in sugar, salt, and flour.
-Mix until a ball forms. Knead in a little extra flour if dough seems overly sticky. Otherwise no real kneading needed (that was a tongue-twister to type!:))
-Cover and let rest in warm place while you get other ingredients out. (This does not need to rise more than a few minutes...it should raise just fine in the oven!)

1 pkg pepperoni slices (~3.5oz, use as much or as little as you like)
8 oz mozarella cheese shredded (freshly if possible)
butter
parmesan cheese (2 Tb)

-Roll dough out into large rectangle.
-Spread cheese out over dough, leaving approx 1 in space on ends (east/west), little space at top of bread (north), and ~ 1-2 inches space at bottom (south) of rectangle.
-Cover cheese with pepperoni slices.
-Roll dough from top (north) toward you, slowly, back and forth from one end (east) to the other (west).
-Tuck in east/west ends as you get to the bottom to seal off sides. Stop rolling when long seam is at the bottom of loaf and gently seal edges.
-Lift loaf with seam side down onto sprayed 11x15 pan.
-Bake at 375 until nicely browned approx 15-25 minutes.
-Remove from oven.
-Rub butter lightly over top of loaf. (I just use the end of a stick of butter.)
-Sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
-Let rest approx 5 minutes before cutting.
-Serve with pizza sauce to dip!

Y: 3 servings (we were hungry!:))

4 comments:

Jonathan, Angela said...

Even more than hungry, this stuff was AMAZING!!!! Seriously! I think we could have eaten at least 1.5 of them and then died from overeating but it would have been an enjoyable death. :) -The Local (not to be mistaken with Loco) Food Tester

Andrew said...

I do agree this is some pretty fine tasting food. Just made it and it turned out pretty good, yummmm!

Shari said...

Chad just said "You really need to get that recipe from Angela!" So, I thought that I would check to see if it was here... and it is! SO exciting! We enjoyed this recipe SO much....and it was great to not have to think about what to make for dinner. :) Thanks so much!

Jonathan, Angela said...

Thanks, Shari:). I'm so glad you got to enjoy a meal and not have to set down that precious little boy!:)