While I enjoy making the occasional dessert, I love to bake breads. I make two to three loaves each week so that we can have fresh bread in the mornings. The loaves are sliced when cooled and divided into two portions. One portion is to be eaten the next morning for breaksfast while the other is put into the freezer for later use. Leftover bread should be frozen to keep it fresh as bread left on the counter grows stale very quickly. When needed, remove from freezer and leave on the counter to thaw for 45 minutes to an hour.
This delicious savory bread has a lovely speckled look from the chopped pepperoni. It is slightly spicy with a tender crumb and is fast becoming another family favorite. The recipe was adapted from The Cooks Encyclopedia of Bread Machine Baking. I substituted the chopped green onions with chipotle chili pepper and added a little oat bran for additional fiber.
Pepperoni and Cottage Cheese Loaf
½ cup fat free cottage cheese
1 cup water
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
3¼ cups unbleached white bread flour
2 tbsp oat bran
½ tsp dried oregano
¼ tsp chipotle chili pepper
1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp rapid rise dry yeast
1 oz pepperoni, chopped
Pour cottage cheese, olive oil, and water in the bread machine pan. Sprinkle flour, oat bran, oregano, chipotle chili pepper over liquid. Add sugar and salt in separate corners of the bread pan. Make a shallow indentation in the center and add yeast. Snap bread pan into machine and set it to basic setting. Press start. Add pepperoni when bread machine beeps, 5 minutes before end of kneading cycle. Remove bread from the pan at the end of the baking cycle. Cool on a wire rack.
Note: I like to remove the kneading paddle when the bread is done with the final kneading so that it will not be baked into the bread and cause a big hole at the bottom when you remove it later.
Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day!
Pam says
June 18, 2010 at 1:42 pmIt looks delicious! There's nothing like home made bread and this is great with the pepperoni!
Jeannie says
June 18, 2010 at 2:16 pmThis look like a recipe i could try!:D Looks wonderful!
5starfoodie says
June 18, 2010 at 2:23 pmThis bread loaf looks so good! What a terrific idea to include pepperoni in it, yum!
Jay says
June 18, 2010 at 4:49 pmYummy recipe…! I love them
Haruna says
June 18, 2010 at 11:29 pmPepperoni-in-the-bread……a culinary one stop shop!
Cook with Madin says
June 20, 2010 at 12:05 amthis bread looks good with the addition of pepperoni and chipotle chili pepper. I'm a bit intimidated every time I try make bread. But you made it sound easy.
Juliana says
June 21, 2010 at 10:03 pmWow Biren, nice combination…pepperoni and cottage cheese…the bread look so fluffy 🙂
zerrin says
June 22, 2010 at 12:53 amA great combo of flavors! Cottage cheese and oregano are always great pairs. They are even better in a bread. Looks yummy!
The Mom Chef says
June 22, 2010 at 1:51 amI love recipes where you get a different bit of flavor with every bite you take. This looks absolutely wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing it with us.
denise fletcher says
June 22, 2010 at 2:23 amHi Biren – Hope you're enjoying your whirlwind holiday 😉
This loaf is just gorgeous – look at that crust! I love how it cracks on top to reveal some of the beautiful crumb inside! Savoury loafs are a very nice change from neutral or sweet breads and the flavours you've put in this one sound absolutely delicious!!
ASpicyPerspective says
June 22, 2010 at 2:57 amWow–what a flavor packed loaf! I can almost taste it!
roxan says
June 22, 2010 at 4:17 amOh, I've never made a savory bread like this before. It looks delicious! thanks 🙂
penny aka jeroxie says
June 22, 2010 at 4:19 amNIce! Peppersoni in bread just made bread so much better.
The Housewife says
June 22, 2010 at 4:50 amHi Biren! My cousin who is a huge die hard pepperoni fan will love this for sure! Bookmarked your recipe to make for him!
sweetlife says
June 22, 2010 at 6:33 amnice combo and what a kid pleaser peeperoni in a homemade bread, oh even my hubby would love this..yum
sweetlife
I Just Love My Apron says
June 22, 2010 at 8:01 amOh Biren, bread that is fresh from the oven sounds wonderful! I always feel intimated to make bread from scratch! Someday I will encourage myself to do so 🙂
I like the touch of pepperoni and cipotle that you added in it. It's so unique!
tigerfish says
June 22, 2010 at 8:12 amYou are really creative with breads 🙂
Cherine says
June 22, 2010 at 10:34 amLove all those ingredients, and I can only imagine how good it must taste!
Rick says
June 22, 2010 at 11:39 amIt is almost like pizza bread!
Kristi Rimkus says
June 22, 2010 at 2:05 pmWhat an interesting bread! I imagine the cottage cheese makes it very moist. I used to make bread all the time too, it is very therapeutic.