Fresh Bread Bowls in an Hour

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Think making homemade bread bowls takes forever? Think again! This recipe lets you whip up fresh, delicious bread bowls in just an hour. The perfect way to elevate your next soup night!

Course: Bread Recipes

Cuisine: Alaskan

Servings: bread bowls

Calories: 820kcal

Author: Laura

Ingredients

6 cups flour can use 1/2 bread flour half all purpose unbleached
2 TBSP instant yeast I use SAF which can be foundsome health food stores, Walmart, and online-I've also used regular rapid rise yeast and the results were ok, affiliate link
1 TBSP kosher salt if you use regular salt use roughly 3/4 TBSP
2 TBSP Sugar
1 1/2 cups water warm
1/2 cup greek yogurt
3 TBSP olive oil
olive oil for oiling the rising bowl and brushing on top
kosher salt to sprinkle on top

Instructions

mix the 5 dry ingredients together in the stand mixer with bread hook on
put the water, greek yogurt and olive oil in a small bowl and stir together
Stand Mixer--add to the dry ingredients in the mixer, mix until combined and let the machine knead it for 5 minutes
then remove the dough hook, form the dough into a ball, pour a little oil in the mixing bowl add the dough, turn to coat, cover with a damp kitchen towel and let rise for 15 minutes
Knead by Hand--mix dry ingredients, then mix wet ingredients together and add to dry ingredients, stir to combine, keep stirring until a dough forms, then mix with your hands until the flour is absorbed and then knead for 5 minutes, then make into a ball, grease a mixing bowl, put the dough in and cover with a damp kitchen towel
meanwhile prep the oven, move one rack to lowest position, and the other to a mid oven position
get a baking sheet ready to hold the bowls and also a cake pan which you will be filling with hot water and placing on the lower rack
once the dough has risen, remove the towel, punch it down, divide into equal pieces and form each into a ball, squeezing and pinching the seams together and placing it on a baking sheet seam side down
place the balls roughly 5-6 inches apart from each other
cut a 1/4 inch deep slash on the top of each ball, brush each ball with oil, then sprinkle with salt
place in the cold oven, turn on to 400˚, set the timer for 40 minutes
fill the baking pan with hot water and place on the lower rack off the oven
you are now 40 minutes away from fresh hot bread bowls
once the bowls cool you can cut out a circle and pull out the inside of the bowl a bit to make room for soup

Notes

You will need a stand mixer or the have desire to knead bread for 5 minutes or so

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