Italian Cheese Ring
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
1 ring
ingredients
-
for dough
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 1⁄4 teaspoons yeast (or one packet)
- 1 cup warm water (~120 F)
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
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for filling
- 2 cups cheese (I use sharp cheddar, but something like asiago would be yummy, too)
- 1 -2 tablespoon italian seasoning (suit to taste) or 1 -2 tablespoon herbs, of your choice (suit to taste)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon garlic powder (suit to taste)
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1⁄4 teaspoon paprika
- 1⁄4 cup Italian salad dressing
directions
- Mix 1 c all-purpose flour and yeast in a large bowl. Add butter, sugar, salt and water. Stir or beat with a mixer until smooth, scraping sides of bowl to get all the flour and yeast.
- Add whole-wheat flour and rest of all-purpose flour, stirring/kneading until smooth.
- If you have dough hooks for your mixer, you can just keep using those until the dough is smooth and springy. If not, turn dough onto a floured surface and knead by hand until the consistency is right.
- Grease a large bowl and turn dough into it. Cover and let rise for 1 hour, or until double.
- When dough has risen satisfactorily, punch it down and turn it out onto a floured cookie sheet. Let rest for a few minutes.
- Mix together all filling ingredients except salad dressing.
- Roll or stretch dough into a 15x12" rectangle (about the size of the cookie sheet).
- Drizzle dough with salad dressing, smoothing it evenly over the surface. Leave about 1" margins on edges of dough.
- Sprinkle the filling mixture over the dough, again leaving 1" margins.
- Roll dough up, jellyroll style, with one of the long sides. Pinch seam together to seal (hence the non-oiled margin).
- Shape into a ring (I found it easiest to cut about 0.5" off each end, so that there was virgin dough exposed and then pinch that together, as it's stickier).
- Cut slashes in ring at 1" intervals.
- Cover and let rise in a warm place for 1 hour, or until double.
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Sprinkle ring with extra cheese, sesame seeds, extra Italian seasoning -- whatever floats your boat.
- Bake for 40 minutes, or until it sounds hollow when tapped.
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