You all know the feeling on a Saturday afternoon when it’s horrible, wet, grey and cold outside. I was fortunate to have my lovely sister Vered from eat now talk later staying with me. This of course meant it was acceptable to stay in, make a nice dinner and watch a film. We started brainstorming ideas of what to have for dinner, something yummy and makes you feel warm but not too heavy. We had a few boiled eggs in the fridge to make into egg mayo, we had humous and various other dips. So we decided on bread rolls. I got a piece of paper and calculated a recipe adding in hot dried chilli and chunks of cheese. I have both a white and rye sour at home, since learning about and researching sourdoughs I really like the combination of a rye sour with white flour, so that’s we decided on.
Recipe
327g Strong white bread flour
186g Water
55g Rye sour
7g Yeast
7g Olive oil
6g Salt
2g Sugar
4g Dried chilli (flakes are best)
20g strong hard cheese cut into chunks
Makes 4 large baps at 160g each or 5 at 130g
As it was already afternoon and we wanted the baps for dinner I decided to add yeast as well as the sour to quicken the fermentation time without compromising on taste.
Method
Mix all the ingredients together till a dough is formed. I always use my kitchenaid with a dough hook on speed one for about 10 mins. If you are kneading by hand, once the ingredients are combined stretch and knead the dough for approximately 20 minutes until a soft dough is formed. Then place it in a lightly oiled bowl to ferment for 2 hours, cover with cling film. After an hour and 20 minutes you need to knock back the dough. This is done to get rid of excess air bubbles. Push the dough a few times with your knuckles (like a light kneading) until it looks at it did before fermentation, cover and leave for the remaining 40 minutes.
Remove the dough from the bowl and scale into the size required. Lightly mould into balls and leave covered for ten minutes. This allows the dough to rest and be more manageable when shaping.
After a ten minute rest re-shape the dough, I chose to make mine round baps. Place on a baking tray making sure the dough has enough space to rise and leave covered in a warm place to prove for 35 minutes. After proving top with extra cheese (if you really like it hot you could add chilli powder or pepper to season the cheese) and add to the top of the baps.
Bake in a pre heated oven at 210’c for 15-20 minutes( if using a fan oven lower the temperature to 200’c). If you’re unsure as to whether it’s fully baked tap the bottom of the bread, if it sounds hollow it’s fully baked, if not it needs a bit longer in the oven.
They tasted really good and went very well with all the dips and salad! I am very happy with the way these turned out, especially as I made the recipe up on the spot. It gave me a real boost of confidence in myself, a great feeling! The combination of rye sour and white flour worked well and the dough structure was lovely.
Enjoy 🙂
There goes my diet!
Ha ha you can make these without the oil. Sourdough actually increases the shelf life so replaces the need for oil. I just like the added flavour 🙂
LOVE THIS!!!
Thank you 🙂
My eyes just widened like you wouldn’t believe. Great. Now I’m drooling! This looks absolutely AMAZING!!!
Ah thanks! 😀
My family would LOVE this bread! Chilis – mmmmmmm!!
This looks so good… might have to experiment in the kitchen this weekend! Thanks for the inspiration!
These look amazing… shall definitely try these out!
Yum! Definitely my ideas of a rainy-day treat.
These were DELICIOUS! Danya is a genious. More please!
I do believe I will need to try these out, thanks for the likes on my site, and look forward to trying out this one myself! 🙂
Thanks, let me know how it turns out!
You have the most beautiful posts…it is amazing that you made this bread recipe on the spot.
Thank you. I’m really happy with how they turned out! 🙂
That looks so gooood! The inside looks amazing..nice structure!
I just jotted down the recipe. Great cheese shots! I loved the story of the sister bonding, too!
Looks so delicious!
Looks delicious! I’ll have to try the recipe sometime soon.
Wishing you a fantastic 2012 🙂
These look great – I’m a big chili fan and think these would be perfect with houmous 🙂
I think that this is one of my favorite blogs because it features my favorite thing, which is bread! I am definitely going to try this recipe out.
Thanks so much Cj 😀
Oh!! This looks amazing!
Yum!
I am a v fussy eater..so all I really wanted to say was, that I love the smell of freshly baked break. (A normal, white loaf say)
Yes freshly baked bread has the best smell! 🙂
Thank you for stopping by my blog! I was just going through yours, and feeling that awe I feel for anyone who bakes their own bread! This sourdough bread reminds me of San Francisco… is it similar to the famous SF sourdough?
Beautiful! I love homemade bread! And it makes the house smell phenomenal!
I do a lot of baking, but don’t do much bread at all. Looking forward to learning some new recipes to try out! This one looks /so good/. 🙂
yummy, this sounds so good! I’ll have to try this soon!
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Looks delish, I’ve been on a bread baking binge lately 🙂
Beautiful pics and oh so yummy looking. So the term baps never heard of it. Looked it up & many definitions on the Internet. So these are Scottish breads eh? Very interesting
Thank you! Its just another word for rolls really but slightly larger then rolls. Hope that helps 🙂
I do love making homemade bread. Never made these before, but I will give them a try! They look delish!
Home made is the best!
wow! this looks amazing!
Thank you! It was delish too :p
These look delish! I’ve never been game to try making any kind of bread… might have to give this one a go!
Thanks! Awesome, its really quite easy and you can play around with flavours 🙂
Thanks for liking my post 🙂
Your recipes look delicious! There are definitely a few that I will be trying!
Great post and I’ll definitely try this recipe
The crumb in this bread is so perfect! It’s nice to see you messing around with sourdough recipes, I’m just getting into soudough bread and it can seem a bit intimidating at first 🙂
These rolls look so tasty! Nice work, I love the thought of eating them on a rainy afternoon as well!
Thank you! Ye it was pretty awesome, really warming 🙂
These rolls look so tasty! Nice work, I love the thought of eating them on s rainy afternoon as well!
Wow! I want to make this now! Looks wonderful!
Thank you, hope it works out well. 🙂
improvising a bread recipe? impressive
Love it! Everything is sooo amazing!
Those look so beautiful!
What a perfect thing to eat on a rainy Saturday afternoon!
These sound (and look) yummy!
These look wonderful! I have never attempted to make bread, but I think these have finally convinced me to try. Thanks 🙂
This looks really good- oh sweet cheesy goodness! Hope you had a great time with your sis!
By the way, I have passed the Liebster Award to you (I JUST saw that you have already been given that, but well the more the merrier, right?).
Here’s the link:
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-follow-up-to-the-most-dangerous-chocolate-cake/
Happy Blogging!
yumm!
This looks DELICIOUS! I am making bread today, using a starter culture for the first time. Wish me luck! Great blog, can’t wait to keep reading.
Oh my gosh, fabulous! Thanks for sharing!
Mmmm…these look SO good. I love bread and I think my family would love this spicy twist on a loaf of bread.
This looks so good. I can’t find rye in the stores around here.
Really? where is that? In the UK you can buy rye flour in most large supermarkets.
Wow, this is great! I’ll have to try these ones but I’m afraid it’ll be a problem to find some ingredients in Spain. Thanks for liking my spelt bread post, by the way! I came running to visit yours and it’s brilliant!
What a great idea! I need to make bread/rolls as well, but I’m always very weary!
Oh my, these are beautiful! Definitely a must-try!
These look fantastic!!!! What a great idea!
I am awash in bread, and yet tempted to make these, too! Yum!
YUM! These look so good 🙂
I love homemade bread – I don’t know which is my bigger weakness bread or cheese. These look delicious. Not too long ago I made a pumpkin bread with cheese and chillies so your recipe reminds me to make some more. Your baps look delicious! Thanks for sharing 🙂
These look great- love that there is chili in them!
These look amazing, I will have to try out the recipe 🙂
Can I move in? You visited my post and I thought I would look at yours and I am so glad I did! I’m hooked. I didn’t even know what a “bap” was, from the US. You are an inspiration! thanks.
ummmmmmI so good. The perfume fills the air.
This looks and sounds AMAZING! Also find it funny that I read this on a cold and rainy Saturday morning, which only added to how wonderful these would be right now…
I am so going to give this a try! It looks just perfect!
This looks super delicious! Thanks for sharing the recipe.
I love adding spices and/or herbs to me breads. Good choice on the chili flakes 🙂
This recipe is on my BAKING/COOKING TO DO LIST this weekend! It does look delicious! Thank you!