Easy cheese & onion bread recipe with red pepper pesto

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I stumbled throughout this recipe and picture the opposite day after which realised I hadn’t shared it with you right here. It’s for my simple cheese and onion bread with purple pepper pesto which I developed for Pesto Princess a couple of years again. I really like their vary of Pestos that are extensively accessible in South Africa and I at all times have a couple of stashed in my freezer for when a fast sauce is required. The purple pepper pesto is my favorite variant.

If you might be residing abroad, hopefully, you'll find a scrumptious purple pepper pesto or you might make your personal by following my recipe here (it’s so easy I even made a video to who you how) The different can be to make use of basil pesto, or actually any pesto of your alternative. It provides a lot flavour to this bread.

You may depart the pesto out fully and simply roll with the cheese and onion and add a couple of chopped recent herbs as I have done in the past. It’s additionally scrumptious.

This bread is a fab addition to a desk with salads and different nibbly bits and naturally, an excellent slathering of butter is the order of the day

Recipe – makes 1 medium loaf

• three brown onion, peeled and finely chopped
• 2 T olive oil
• 2-star anise pods (optionally available)
• 500g Self-Raising Flour
• 1 cup mature cheddar, grated
• ¼ cup Pesto Princess Red Pepper Pesto
• half t salt
• 1 cup / 250ml buttermilk
• half cup water

Pre warmth the oven to 180C / 350 F and line a medium bread loaf pan with baking paper.

Heat the olive oil in a non-stick frying pan and sauté the onions and star anise over a delicate warmth for round eight – 12 minutes till they're tender and simply begin turning golden. You don't wish to brown them. Set them apart and permit to chill barely.

Sift the flour and add the salt, cheese and herbs. Add the cooled onions and blend. Add the purple pesto to the buttermilk and stir. Add this together with the water to the flour and gently combine with a picket spoon till it varieties a sticky dough.

Spoon the dough into the ready loaf pan and bake for 1 half hours till golden brown on prime. You will know your bread is finished while you insert a pointy knife or skewer into the thickest half and it comes out clear.

* to forestall the highest from over browning it could be essential to loosely cowl it with a chunk of foil from about 40 minutes into the baking time

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