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There is nothing quite like pairing your favorite soup or stew with a homemade Bread Bowl, especially as the weather turns chilly. Grab your favorite hot-weather meal and pour it into one of these bowls for a dish that’ll keep you filled up all day!
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One of my favorite childhood meals was tomato soup with grilled cheese sandwiches. I loved those days. Life was so much simpler then, wasn’t it?!
There was always something so comforting about a cheesy sandwich and being able to dunk in my tomato soup! One isn’t the same without the other.
Unless, of course, you up the ante a bit and put it in a bread bowl! Bread bowls take soup to soup heaven, in my humble opinion!
So I have to share this recipe with you today. Homemade bread bowls! Delicious!
I know you might be a little overwhelmed by the idea of using yeast, like, no exaggeration! Yeast is a bit scary since it’s so easy to kill, and so it’s sometimes easy to mess up your bread. But I promise you’ll be alright if you use a bread machine like in this recipe. I wouldn’t share any recipe with you that was too difficult!
Pair these bread bowls with your favorite soup or stew, like my Tomato Parmesan Soup or Chicken Broccoli Wild Rice Soup.
It’s the perfect way to serve up literally any soup or stew … as if soups and stews couldn’t get any better. Enjoy!!
Soup Bread Bowl: Ingredients & Substitutions
For this Bread Bowls recipe, you will need …
Ingredients
- bread flour, active dry yeast, salt, sugar, warm water, olive oil – if you’ve ever made bread before, you know these ingredients, and if not, they’re all pretty standard!
- garlic and parmesan cheese – these two ingredients will provide additional flavor for your bread bowl and, therefore for all your soups and stews!
How to make a Bread Bowl
First, make your dough. Place all your ingredients in the pan of the bread machine in the order suggested by the manufacturer. Select the “dough” setting. Check the dough after about 5 minutes, and be sure to add 1-2 tablespoons of flour or water if necessary.
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Next, let your dough rise. When the bread machine is finished, turn the dough onto a floured surface. Divide the dough into 4 equal portions and shape each piece into a ball. Place the balls on a greased baking sheet. Cover them and let them rise in a warm place until they’ve doubled, which should take about 30 minutes.
Finally, bake and serve your bread bowls! Bake your dough at 400°F for about 18-23 minutes or until the bread is golden brown. Allow it to cool. And after it’s cooled, you’re ready to make your bowls! Cut off the top portion of the bread and hollow the bowl out, leaving about 1/4th of an inch for a shell. Then serve your desired soup or stew in the bowl!
Bread Bowls: FAQs
It should make 4 bowls since you’re making 4 little “loafs” of bread.
It takes about three hours! Not too bad, honestly, especially since the bread machine is doing most of the work for you.
Of course!! There’s really no difference; just one takes a lot of the guesswork out. I highly recommend a machine, but if you don’t have one, feel free to attempt to make the dough by hand.
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Bread Bowl
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Equipment
- Silicone Pot Holder Trivet Mats – Hot Pads Spoon Rest, Multipurpose Trivet for Hot Dishers Heat Resistant Food Grade Silicone Set of 4
Ingredients
- 1 cup + 3 tablespoons warm water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups bread flour
- 2 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
Instructions
- Place the ingredients in a bread machine pan in the order suggested by the manufacturer. Select the dough setting.
- When the cycle is complete, turn the dough out onto a floured surface and divide it into 4 equal portions. Shape each piece into a ball. Place on a greased baking sheet. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled – about 30-45 minutes.
- Bake at 400°F for 18-23 minutes or until the bread is golden brown. Allow the bowls to cool completely before serving.
To serve:
- Cut off the top portion of the bread. Carefully hollow out the bowl leaving a 1/4-inch shell. Fill the bowl with soup.
Notes
To make these bread bowls without a bread machine:
- Pour the warm water over yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment. Or, if you don’t have a stand mixer, you can use a regular large mixing bowl. Whisk the ingredients together. Cover the bowl with a towel and allow the mixture to sit for 5 minutes. The mixture should be frothy and foamy after 5 minutes.
- If you do not have a mixer, you can mix it by hand in this step. With the stand mixer running on low speed, add the cheese, garlic, sugar, salt, and 2 cups of flour. Beat on low speed for 1 minute, then add the remaining 1 cup of flour. Beat on low speed for 5-6 minutes. The dough should be thick yet soft. And only slightly sticky. It should pull away from the sides of the bowl as it mixes. If it’s too sticky, add more flour, 1 Tablespoon at a time, until it pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and form into a ball. Then place the dough into a large greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. (I just use the same mixing bowl – remove the dough, grease it with nonstick spray or olive oil, and put the dough back in.) Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place it in a warm environment to rise until doubled, about 90 minutes.
- Once doubled in size, punch down the dough to release any air bubbles. Remove dough from the bowl and turn it out onto a lightly floured surface. Punch down again to release any more air bubbles if needed.
- Divide the dough into 4 even pieces and form each into a ball and place them on a greased baking sheet. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled – about 30-45 minutes.
- Bake at 400°F for 18-23 minutes or until the bread is golden brown. Allow the bowls to cool completely before serving.
To serve:
- Cut off the top portion of the bread. Carefully hollow out the bowl leaving a 1/4-inch shell. Fill the bowl with soup.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
