
Cheesy monkey bread
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + rising + proving time
- Easy
- Serves 6
Ingredients
- 500g strong bread flour, plus extra for dusting
- 7g sachet fast action yeast
- 50ml milk
- olive oil
- 200g grated mozzarella and cheddar
- 3 jalapeños, finely chopped
- 100g butter, melted and cooled
- 100g parmesan, grated
SMOKY SAUCE
- 1 onion, grated
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 tsp hot smoked paprika
- 400g tin chopped tomatoes
Method
- STEP 1
Put the flour and yeast in a bowl with 2 tsp salt. Make a well in the centre and gradually mix in 250ml water, the milk and 2 tbsp olive oil.
- STEP 2
Bring together into a dough then knead on a floured worksurface until smooth.
- STEP 3
Put into a clean bowl, cover with clingfilm, then leave for an hour in a warm place until risen.
- STEP 4
Meanwhile, to make the sauce, cook the onion and garlic in a little more olive oil until soft, then stir in the paprika. Tip in the tomatoes and simmer for 20 minutes. Cool, then whizz until smooth with a stick blender.
- STEP 5
Tip out the dough and knead briefly on the worksurface then divide into large walnut-sized pieces.
- STEP 6
Mix the cheese and chillies, then stuff a heaped tsp into each piece of dough, forming the dough into a ball around it so that it completely encloses the cheese.
- STEP 7
Brush a large bundt tin with butter. Put the rest of the melted butter in a dish and the parmesan in another shallow dish.
- STEP 8
Roll each dough ball in the butter then the cheese, then drop into the bundt tin until all the dough is used.
- STEP 9
Cover loosely with clingfilm and leave for another 45 minutes in a warm place.Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Bake the bread for 50 minutes. Turn the tin over onto a surface and give a tap to release it but leave in place for 5 minutes. Serve the bread warm with the dipping sauce.