Cheddar & Pickled Jalapeño Dutch Oven Bread

Name: Cheddar & Pickled Jalapeño Dutch Oven Bread
Ingredients: 1¾ cups [420 ml] warm water (110°F [45°C]); 2½ tsp active dry yeast; 1 tsp sugar; 4 cups [560 g] bread flour; ¼ cup [60 ml] plus 1 tsp olive oil, plus more for the bowl; 1 tsp salt; 4 oz [115 g] Cheddar cheese, shredded; 1 oz [30 g] Parmesan cheese, grated; ¼ cup [60 g] chopped pickled jalapeño

Preparation info

Makes
1
loaf

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Every Season Is Soup Season

By Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

Published 2023

About

If I could eat only one kind of bread for the rest of my life, it would be this loaf. It’s packed full of cheese and jalapeños, and the texture is a perfect mix of a soft interior and a crunchy exterior. If you like a lot of spice, you might use fresh, seeded jalapeño pieces instead of pickled.

Ingredients

1¾ cups [420 ml] warm water (110°F [45°C])
2½ tsp active dry yeast

Vegetarian
Winter
Bread

Method

Combine ¼ cup [60 ml] of the warm water, the yeast, and sugar in a small bowl and let sit for 10 minutes, or until bubbly.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a bread