Stuffed Pizza Bread

Potatoes Browning's Note:

No, this isn't some french bread pizza. Nor is this a bread machine recipe. This is 2 nice loaves of bread stuffed with all that stuff you love on your 'za. Easy to make and a pleaser for small gatherings or for yourself.

• Total Time: 3 hrs 45 mins
• Prep Time: 3 hrs
• Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 8-10

Yield: 2.0 loaves

• 2 cups warm water
• ½ ounce yeast (two packets)
• 5 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 chopped green peppers, and or 1 yellow pepper
• 1⁄3; lb sliced pepperoni
• ¼ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
• oregano, and or red pepper flakes
• parmesan cheese

Directions:

1. Dissolve yeast in warm water.
2. In another bowl,add salt and oil to flour.
3. Add yeasty water and mix.
4. Let rise for 2 hours then punch down dough.
5. Divide dough into 2 equal parts.
6. Roll each part into a rectangle, then brush with egg.
7. Put mozzarella, pepperoni and peppers on top.
8. Roll rectangle dough with toppings tightly like a jellyroll or stollen bread. Seal ends by pinching edge firmly.
9. Put onto greased flat pan, brush loaves with egg, and sprinkle parmesan, oregano and pepper flakes atop.
10. Bake at 400 degeees for 45 minutes. Let cool before slicing. Serve with marinara sauce for dipping.
11. You can also stuff the bread with other toppings; mushrooms, chopped onions, precooked italian sausage chunks, ham, whatever turns you on.

Reviews

[MissHeather]

This recipe is awesome! My whole family enjoyed it. I understood the yeast as needing to be two packets which if measuring is 1tbsp & 1/2tsp of yeast. My dough rose very quickly and was ready in one hour. We used a ton of extra cheese, pepperoni, italian sausage and black olives and it cooked perfectly fine. Due to my oven, I think, I turned my baking sheet at about halfway so one loaf would not be darker than the other. I'm just a beginner at bread making and I found this recipe easy to make :-) Thanks!

[debarra]

Very yummy. Used extra mozzarella. I was confused about the yeast amount though. An individual packet of yeast weighs 1/4 oz, which means you'd need 9 packets to get 2 1/4 oz. of yeast! That seemed a bit excessive. :-) Maybe 2 1/4 tsp. was meant? At any rate, I used about three teaspoons and that worked just fine. The bread dough was very easy to make.

[Nasseh]

YUMMMM!!! I stuffed the bread with pepperoni & extra cheese then sprinkled with Italian seasonings. Made from the orphange Fall PAC 2008