This bread is fool proof delicious! It has a crunchy crisp crust with a soft center and has a delicious kick to it!
Ingredients
- 3 cups All Purpose Flour
- 1½ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. yeast
- 1½ cups luke-warm water
- ¼ cup diced jalapeños, drained
- 1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
Topping
- ¼ cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 5-8 THIN slices jalapenos
Instructions
- Combine the three dry ingredients in a large bowl then pour in the luke-warm water. Stir until completely combined. Stir in jalapenos and cheese. Dough will look messy and not smooth and that is completely okay.
- Once combined, cover tightly with plastic wrap and let sit on the counter overnight. I let mine sit for about 15 hours. Let it rise anywhere from 12-18 hours. Dough will be puffed up appear bubbly and be sticky. It won't be in a ball shape and that is normal.
- When dough is done rising and ready to bake, preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
- Heavily flour clean counter top or surface. Turn dough onto floured surface and shape into a round ball. Cover lightly with plastic wrap (you can just lay the plastic wrap that you used to cover your large bowl over the top) and let dough rest.
- While the dough is resting, place your dutch oven into the oven for 30 minutes to pre-heat.
- Note that once heated, the handles will be extremely HOT! Remember to use hot pads :)
- After dutch oven has preheated, place ball of dough in the cents of the dutch oven and cover with lid. You can put a piece of parchment under it if your dutch oven doesn't have an enamel coating.
- Bake at 450 degrees F for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, remove lid, sprinkle cheese over the top of loaf and evenly distribute the thing slices of jalapeño of the top.
- Return uncovered to oven and bake for an additional 15 minutes until done. Bread will be golden in color.
- Enjoy!