Recipe for pull-apart bread with cheese and herbs

Ingredients

• 350 g flour
• 15 g sugar
• 7 g dry yeast
• 7 g salt
• 200 g warm milk (room temperature)
• 1 egg
• 60 g soft butter
• 1 egg (for brushing)
• 200 g Mozzarella (cut into cubes)
• 60 g butter
• 2 garlic cloves (pressed)
• Rosemary or herbs (to taste)
• Salt
• Pepper
• Butter (for the baking pan)

Preparation

1. First, the bread dough is prepared.

2. For this, put flour, sugar, dry yeast, salt, the warm milk and the egg into a stand mixer and knead at low speed for 10 minutes.

3. The dough should be well combined.

4. Only then add the soft butter piece by piece and continue kneading for another 10 to 20 minutes at medium speed.

5. Now take another bowl, grease it with butter, and place the dough inside to rest.

6. Cover the dough and let it stand in a warm place for 60 to 90 minutes.

7. It should have doubled in size afterwards; it will look like this:

8. If the dough has doubled, weigh it and divide it by 20.

9. Divide the dough into 20 equal pieces and shape them into small balls.

10. Flatten these balls and top them with the Mozzarella pieces.

11. Then gather the dough around the cheese and place it into the butter-greased baking pan, always placing the side where you sealed the cheese facing down into the pan.

12. Let the finished bread balls rise again in the pan, covered, for 30 minutes.

13. Preheat the oven to 180° C with top and bottom heat.

14. Brush the bread balls with a beaten egg and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes.

15. The pull-apart bread should be lightly browned.

16. In the meantime, prepare the herb butter.

17. For this, put 60 g butter and the pressed garlic into a saucepan and let it melt; this takes about 1 minute.

18. Then mix in the herbs and remove from the heat.

19. When the pull-apart bread comes out of the oven, immediately brush it with the herb butter and serve at once.

20. The bread tastes really wonderful when warm.