Cheese-Topped Chilli and Onion Boule

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    2

    small loaves
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      9 hr

Appears in
Slow Dough, Real Bread

By Chris J L Young

Published 2016

  • About

Carole told me that this bread is their signature loaf and that it is usually the first to sell out at a market, even though they make twice as much of it as any other. The recipe originally came about by accident due to someone “chucking a whole tub of chilli flakes” into her cheese and onion dough.

Ingredients

For the Sponge

  • 50g/oz/heaping cup white bread flour

Method

  1. Mix the sponge ingredients together, cover and leave in the refrigerator overnight, or at room temperature for at least 4 hours.
  2. Fry the onion and dried chilli/hot pepper flakes in the oil until translucent, then leave to cool before adding the sponge and the remaining dough ingredients except the cheese. Mix until you have a smooth but loose (i.e. wet and stic