Cheesy Bread
This cheesy bread is amazing! Homemade pizza dough topped with 3 kinds of cheese, olive oil and fresh garlic!
Servings: 8 people
Ingredients
Cheesy Bread Crust
- ¼ cup very warm water
- 1 pack yeast rapid rise is what I use
- 2 teaspoon sea salt or pink salt
- 2 teaspoon sugar
- 1 ½ cup very warm water
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 ½-4 cups unbleached flour or bread flour
Cheesy Bread Topping
- 1 cup ricotta cheese
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
- 2 garlic cloves grated
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 5 tablespoon olive oil divided
- 2 cups Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Instructions
Cheesy Bread Crust
- In a medium mixing bowl add a ¼ cup very warm water. Sprinkle in the yeast and let set a couple of minutes.
- Measure in the salt and sugar and stir.
- Measure in the 1 ½ cups of very warm water and 2 tablespoon of olive oil.
- One cup at a time, measure in the flour, stirring after each cup. Add the flour until you get a nice semi-sticky dough. Cover with press-n-seal or a dish towel and let rise for about a half-hour in a warm part of the kitchen. Make sure it doubles in size.
- While it is rising make the ricotta mix and set it aside and preheat the oven to 450 degrees. (Recipe below)
- Once it has doubled in size, turn onto a floured surface and sprinkle another tablespoon of flour on top of the dough to make it easier to work with.
- Knead the dough for a couple of minutes until you have a nice dough ball that's not sticky.
- On a large cookie sheet evenly coat with 2 tablespoon of olive oil. Set aside
- With a rolling pin roll the dough out to fit the whole length of the large cookie sheet. If you don't have a large cookie sheet you can divide this dough onto 2 regular size cookie sheets. Use your fingers to press the dough out onto all the edges of the cookie sheet.
- Once the dough is covering the entire length of the cookie sheet, spread the remaining 3 tablespoon of olive oil over the dough.
- Spread the ricotta mixture evenly over the dough.
- Sprinkle 2 cups of mozzarella on top of the ricotta.
- Bake at 450 for about 20 minutes or until crust is brown and cheese is getting bubbly.
- Cut into strips or squares and serve plain or with marinara sauce.
Cheesy Bread Topping
- Measure 1 cup of ricotta into a small bowl.
- Add salt and grated garlic and stir with a spoon.
- Stir in a ½ cup of parmesan cheese. (I use the parmesan cheese that looks grated rather than the powder).
- Set aside to top cheese bread dough with.