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Mozzarella stuffed Garlic and Herb Sourdough Bread

Cheesy Mozzarella stuffed Garlic and herb sourdough bread an excellent appetizer to serve for party or get together.
Prep Time4 hours 30 minutes
Cook Time18 minutes
overnight proof8 hours
Total Time12 hours 48 minutes
Course: Appetizer
Cuisine: American
Keyword: #appetizer, #cheese sourdough bread, #sourdoughbread
Servings: 8 servings
Calories: 121kcal

Ingredients

First make starter

  • 1 tbsp./ 15g sourdough starter
  • cup / 50g bread flour
  • 3 tbsp. + 1 tsp/ 50g water

Dough

  • 2 ⅔ cup/ 362g Bread flour
  • ½ cup / 100g Sourdough starter 100% hydration white flour starter
  • 1 tsp/ 6g Salt
  • 2 tsp/ 8.5g Sugar
  • ¾ cup + 1 tbsp. / 206g Water
  • ¼ cup/40g olive oil divided

Filling and Topping

  • 5 ounce /114 g Mozzarella Cheese
  • cup / 30g Parmesan Cheese
  • 1 ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • 3 tablespoon /7g Cilantro/Parsley
  • 2 tablespoon /11g Garlic minced
  • ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes Aleppo Pepper
  • 2 tablespoon /19g Sesame Seeds

Instructions

Starter

  • First make starter by mixing all the ingredients in a bowl and set aside for 4-5 hours or until doubles in volume.

Dough

  • In a large bowl add starter, sugar, salt, 2 tablespoon olive oil, flour, and water to form and soft dough and set aside for 4 hours or until it doubles in volume.
  • In between every hour interval stretch and fold the dough. This step will strengthen the dough.
  • After 4 hours refrigerate the dough for overnight or 8 hours.

Shape the dough

  • Next morning divide the dough into two equal pieces about 335g each. Lightly spread 1 tablespoon of olive oil in the baking sheet and set aside.
  • Spread the dough into approximately 9x 11-inch rectangle and place it in baking sheet.
  • Place mozzarella cheese discs on the top of the dough. Then cover this dough the second dough. Seal the dough from the sides.
  • Brush the dough with rest of olive oil, sprinkle, parmesan cheese, minced garlic, Italian seasoning , red pepper flakes, cilantro/ parsley and sesame seeds.
  • Try to poke the dough with a fork at 2-inch interval so that steam will escape while baking and bread will not be soggy. Leave the dough as such while oven is preheating.

Bake the bread

  • Pre-heat oven to 450°F / 232°C. Then bake the dough for 16-18 minutes or until it is golden brown around the sides.
  • If the dough puffs while baking, pierce with tip of knife to release the steam.
  • Transfer the bread to cooling rack for few minutes.
  • Then slice and serve hot . Serve with Marinara sauce.

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Notes

If you are making it for same day, then give bulk fermentation ( first fermentation for 5 hours ) then shape the dough and leave it for 1 hour before baking it. 

Nutrition

Calories: 121kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 17mg | Sodium: 183mg | Potassium: 56mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 323IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 172mg | Iron: 1mg
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