Savoury cheese and herb bread
2 hours 20 min
This easy, savoury yeast bread is made with cottage cheese, onion and dill and cooked in a baking dish. You could use chives instead of dill if you prefer.
Angie Fuller
2 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 7g dried active yeast
- 4 tablespoons warm water
- 225g cottage cheese, room temperature
- 2 tablespoons caster sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter, room temperature, plus more as needed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 2 teaspoons dried dill
- 1 tablespoon dried minced onion
- 1 egg
- 275g plain flour, or more if needed
- 1 pinch salt
Method
Prep:15min ›
Cook:35min ›
Extra time:1hr30min rising ›
Ready in:2hr20min
- Soften yeast in warm water; let stand 10 minutes.
- Mix cottage cheese, sugar, butter, 1 teaspoon salt and bicarbonate of soda together in a large mixing bowl. Add dill, dried onion, egg and yeast mixture. Mix well. Gradually add flour, about 4 tablespoons at a time, stirring well after each addition. If dough seems too sticky, add another tablespoon or 2 of flour.
- Cover bowl with a clean kitchen tea towel and place in a warm place until double in size, about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Generously butter a large baking dish.
- Gently stir dough to release bubbles. Transfer to prepared baking dish. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 35 minutes. Remove from oven; brush top with butter and sprinkle on a pinch of salt. Let bread cool 5 minutes before transferring from the baking dish to a cooling rack.
Suggestion:
Instead of stirring the dough with a spoon, I grease my hands and manually work the flour into the dough (Step 2).
