Feta Cheese Garlic Bread
Author/ Συγγραφέας: Katerina
Recipe type/ Τύπος Πιάτου: Appetizer
- 1 cup milk
- 57 gr. / ¼ cup butter
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp dry yeast
- 500 gr. / 1 lb. All-Purpose Flour
- 2 tbsp corn starch
- 113 gr. / 4 oz. unsalted butter, softened
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 125 gr. / 4.5 oz. feta cheese
- A small bunch of parsley
- About 15 basil leaves
- ¼ tsp dried oregano
- Pepper to taste
- Put the milk, butter, sugar, and salt in a microwave-safe and heat until the butter melts.
- Put it aside to cool.
- In your stand mixer pour the milk batter to the bowl, and add the eggs, yeast, flour, and the corn starch and mix.
- Knead with the hook until it's smooth.
- The dough will be sticky, but it should form a ball.
- Place the dough in a greased bowl, cover it, and let it rise for about 90 minutes.
- It will not necessarily increase its volume by double, but this is fine.
- While the dough is rising, make the filling.
- In a blender add the feta cheese, basil leaves and parsley and blend them in fine crumbles.
- Place all the ingredients including the feta and herbs in a bowl and mix to combine.
- Take a bread pan and grease it slightly.
- Flour your kitchen bench.
- Deflate the dough and divide it in half.
- Take the first half and with the rolling pin roll it to a circle with diameter 30 cm. / 12 in.
- Cut with a cutter circles with diameter 10 cm. / 4 in. and are 0,5 cm / ¼’’ in. thick.
- Take a small portion about ½ tsp of the filling and spread it on half of each circled dough piece and fold in half.
- Place them fold side down in the bread pan.
- Repeat for the rest of the dough.
- Cover and let it rise for another 90 minutes.
- About 15 minutes before the end of the second rising period preheat the oven in 175°C / 350°F.
- Bake for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- Remove let cool for a minute and serve.
Recipe adapted from King Arthur Flour
Recipe by Culinary Flavors at https://www.culinaryflavors.gr/feta-cheese-garlic-bread/
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