Asiago-Crusted Skillet Bread (No Knead)

This chewy, tacky asiago-crusted skillet bread is filled with the savory flavors of asiago cheese, plus a touch of garlic and black pepper. Baking the dough in a skillet helps type a thick and further crispy backside crust. You’ll use a straightforward no-knead methodology to make this yeast bread, which produces a wonderful do-it-yourself loaf with minimal hands-on work.

This recipe is delivered to you in partnership with Purple Star Yeast.

In the event you’ve ever had the pleasure of biting into an asiago bagel, you know the way the salty, savory taste of the asiago cheese mingles with the malty, yeasty taste of the bagel in each chewy chew. And the way the cheese sprinkled on prime bakes in and types a scrumptious crust on the outside. (Are you drooling but?!)

I wished to copy that fantastic taste and chewy texture, however as a loaf of bread. This recipe nails it, and in contrast to do-it-yourself bagels, there’s NO kneading, particular person shaping, or boiling steps concerned.

Why You’ll Love This Asiago Cheese Bread

• No mixer, no difficult shaping, and no kneading required
• Brief + easy listing of elements
• Flavors of asiago cheese, garlic, and black pepper
• Prepared the identical day you begin making it
• Tastes phenomenal with tomato soup
• EASY: In the event you can stir elements collectively, you can also make this bread!

Seize These Substances

Asiago cheese taste: it’s an Italian alpine cow’s milk cheese, and the flavour ranges from mildly candy and nutty to sharp and tangy, relying on how lengthy it’s aged. An excellent substitute for the asiago on this bread recipe is freshly grated Parmesan, Pecorino-Romano, or white cheddar.

I exploit it on this savory sun-dried tomato fast bread, too.

I’ve discovered that some manufacturers of asiago cheese can have a very… pungent aroma. However relaxation assured, that magically disappears throughout baking, and the baked bread will odor and style completely scrumptious.

What’s No-Knead Bread?

This no-knead methodology of creating do-it-yourself bread is tremendous widespread amongst house bakers, and initially got here from Jim Lahey of Sullivan Road Bakery in NYC. After utilizing his methodology to make cranberry nut no-knead bread, many readers requested for extra taste variations. Since then, I’ve additionally revealed no-knead olive bread, tremendous seeded oat bread, honey oat bread, and jalapeño cheddar bread.

I like making bread like this.

For at the moment’s no-knead asiago bread, I made a number of modifications. As a substitute of letting the dough relaxation for 12–18 hours, we’re shortening that point to simply 3 hours. We’re utilizing a little bit extra yeast (1 commonplace packet) to hurry up the method. It is a bread you can begin making the identical day you propose to eat it and a lot of the “work” is totally arms off because the dough rises.

The right way to Make No-Knead Asiago-Crusted Skillet Bread

This course of actually couldn’t be simpler. Stir all of the elements collectively by hand. Anticipate a really sticky dough:

Cowl the bowl and let the dough rise for 3 hours. The dough will stretch to the perimeters of the bowl and have air bubbles on the floor:

Use a spatula to assist take away the sticky dough from the bowl then use generously floured arms to form the dough right into a ball. Place it in an oven-safe skillet.

Let it relaxation for half-hour, after which rating it with sharp knife or bread lame, prime with extra asiago cheese, and bake.

I like that this bread has the same taste to twisted cheese bread, however requires not one of the difficult shaping.

Why Bake Bread in a Skillet?

Although I normally bake no-knead bread in a Dutch oven or on a baking sheet, I wished the crust to be the primary focus right here. Baking the bread in a forged iron skillet helps develop a thick, additional crispy crust on the underside.

In the event you want a suggestion, I personal and love this cast-iron skillet. I’ve each the 10-inch and the 12-inch sizes and you should utilize both for this bread. They’re unbelievable high quality for the worth, and I exploit them to make all types of recipes, from skillet brownies to my Dutch child pancake recipe, plus frittatas, skillet sea salt & herb rolls, honey cornbread, apple cider rooster, and extra. Discuss a flexible pan to have in your kitchen!

Due to the sticky dough and cheese, this bread is flatter than most boules. However this simply means a better crust to inside ratio!

Hold this recipe on standby for when that longing for heat do-it-yourself cheese bread hits. As a result of you recognize while you begin fascinated about heat do-it-yourself cheese bread, you possibly can’t cease fascinated about it.

This asiago bread is solely good with a bowl of tomato soup. Or serve it alongside:

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  Writer: Sally
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  Prep Time: 20 minutes
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  Prepare dinner Time: 35 minutes
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  Whole Time: 4 hours, half-hour
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  Yield: 1 loaf; 10-12 servings
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  Class: Bread
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  Technique: Baking
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  Delicacies: American

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Description

Selfmade bakery-style bread has by no means been simpler. This no-knead asiago-crusted bread is baked in a skillet and requires minimal hands-on work! In the event you’re new to working with yeast, reference my Baking with Yeast Information for solutions to widespread yeast FAQs.

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Directions

1. *No have to grease the bowl, and don’t use a mixer on this step as a result of the dough is simply too sticky for a mixer.* In a big bowl, stir collectively the bread flour, salt, pepper, yeast, and garlic. Add 1 cup (100g) of the cheese and stir till mixed. Make a properly within the heart of the flour combination, and pour within the heat water. Utilizing a silicone spatula or picket spoon, combine to mix. The dough might be shaggy and fairly sticky. If it’s extraordinarily moist, add one other 2 Tablespoons of flour. Gently form the dough right into a ball within the heart of the bowl. Cowl the bowl tightly. Enable to rise for 3-3.5 hours at room temperature. See Make Forward Directions if you wish to prolong this time.
2. Grease a 10- to 12-inch oven-safe skillet with oil, butter, or nonstick spray. Flip the dough out onto a generously floured work floor and, utilizing floured arms, form right into a ball as greatest you possibly can. Doesn’t must be good. Place dough within the skillet, cowl it, and let it relaxation for half-hour because the oven preheats.
3. Preheat the oven to 425°F (218°C).
4. Utilizing a really sharp knife or bread lame (you might even use kitchen shears), gently rating a slash or X into the floor of the dough, about 1/2 inch deep. (“Rating” = shallow reduce.) Prime the bread with the remaining 1/4 cup (25g) asiago cheese, urgent it flippantly into the floor so it sticks.
5. Bake for 30–35 minutes, or till the bread is golden brown. The right way to check for doneness: Give the nice and cozy bread a lightweight faucet. If it sounds hole, it’s performed. For a extra correct check, the bread is finished when an instant-read thermometer reads the middle of the loaf as 195°F (90°C).
6. Take away skillet from the oven, fastidiously take away the bread from the skillet, and permit to chill on a cooling rack for 20 minutes earlier than slicing.
7. Cowl and retailer leftover bread at room temperature for as much as 2-3 days or within the fridge for as much as 1 week.

Notes

1. Make Forward & Freezing Directions: After the dough rises at room temperature, you possibly can refrigerate it for as much as 8 extra hours earlier than continuing with step 2. I don’t suggest any longer than that. To freeze, bake the bread, enable it to chill, wrap tightly in a layer of plastic wrap then a layer of aluminum foil, and freeze for as much as 3 months. Thaw within the fridge and permit to come back to room temperature earlier than serving.
2. Particular Instruments (affiliate hyperlinks): Field Grater | Glass Mixing Bowls | Silicone Spatula or Picket Spoon | Forged-Iron Skillet | Bread Lame | Prompt-Learn Thermometer | Cooling Rack | Coarse Sea Salt
3. To Bake in a Dutch Oven: Use a 5–6-quart or bigger Dutch oven or any massive oven-safe pot. In step 2, after the dough has completed rising, flip the dough out onto a generously floured work floor and, utilizing floured arms, form right into a ball as greatest you possibly can. Switch the dough to a big piece of parchment paper. (Massive sufficient to suit inside your pot and one that’s protected for prime warmth. I exploit this parchment and it’s by no means been a problem.) Place the dough contained in the Dutch oven by lifting it up with the parchment paper and putting all of it—the parchment paper included—contained in the pot. Cowl and let it relaxation for half-hour because the oven preheats. Proceed with step 3. Bake for 25 minutes with the lid on (should you don’t have a lid on your oven-safe pot, that’s OK, simply skip protecting it). Fastidiously take away the lid and proceed baking for 10 extra minutes till the bread is golden brown or till the interior temperature reaches 195°F (90°C).
4. To Bake on a Baking Sheet: In step 2, place the dough ball on a parchment paper lined or generously floured nonstick baking pan. Proceed with steps 3 and 4. After the oven is preheated, place scored dough/baking pan on the middle rack. Then place a shallow metallic pan (I normally use a metallic 9×13-inch baking pan; don’t use glass) on the underside oven rack. Fastidiously and rapidly pour 3–4 cups of boiling water into it, after which rapidly shut the oven door to entice the steam inside. The steam helps create a crispier crust, just like a crust that types when utilizing a forged iron skillet. Proceed with step 5.
5. Flour: For very best taste and chewy texture, I strongly suggest utilizing bread flour. You should use a 1:1 substitution of all-purpose flour in a pinch with no different modifications to the recipe. Don’t use complete wheat flour on this dough. We have now not examined this recipe with gluten-free flour.
6. Salt: Use a rough salt, comparable to coarse sea salt, on this bread. I discover the flavour barely missing when utilizing common desk superb salt. In the event you solely have superb salt, scale back to 1 and 1/2 teaspoons.
7. Pepper: Use freshly floor black pepper. If utilizing finely floor, scale back to 1/4 teaspoon.
8. Yeast: I at all times use Platinum Yeast from Purple Star, an instantaneous yeast. You should use any instantaneous yeast on this dough. If utilizing lively dry yeast, the rise time is normally barely longer, about 4 hours. Reference my Baking with Yeast Information for solutions to widespread yeast FAQs.
9. Asiago Cheese: The flavour ranges from mildly candy and nutty to sharp and tangy, relying on how lengthy it’s aged. An excellent substitute for the asiago on this bread recipe is freshly grated Parmesan, Pecorino-Romano, or white cheddar.