Baked Potato Bacon And Chives Bread Recipe

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Baked Potato Bacon And Chives Bread
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Ingredients
8
Count
Nutrition
2215
Calories
Total time
40
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. To begin, chop up two or three slices of bacon and fry them up. Remove them from the heat.
  2. Mix the mashed potatoes, yeast, salt, and 2 cups of the flour together in a large mixing bowl or the bowl of an electric mixer. . Add the sour cream, water, chives, and bacon and mix together until all ingredients are combined. I also mixed in the bacon fat, which there was about a tablespoon of in the pan, because it improves the flavor of the loaf.
  3. At this point you'll have a very wet, sticky mess, probably more of a batter than a dough. Add additional flour a handful (1/8 cup) at a time and mix or knead it in.
  4. (I lost track of exactly how much extra flour I added, but it seems like it was around 9 or 10 hands full. I added 4 or 5 hands full and mixed them in while the dough was still in the bowl, then I poured the dough out onto a well-floured cutting board and added more, kneading it with my hands which I repeatedly dipped in flour to keep the dough from sticking to them. After 5 or 10 minutes of this I ended up with something that was still quite sticky, but was definitely in the realm of a dough and not a batter: it could be formed into a ball and generally held its shape.)
  5. Once you have combined the ingredients well and gotten the balance of flour and water to a level that seems acceptable, return the dough to a well-oiled bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise for 90 minutes at room temperature or until it has doubled in size.
  6. Remove the dough from the bowl and shape the loaf or loaves. Notice how moist and gummy my dough was when I cut it to shape it into two loaves:
  7. One probably could add more flour and make an acceptable loaf of bread with a drier dough, but I've been finding that I get better results the wetter I am able to leave it. But this really is an art, not a science, so use your own best judgement.
  8. At this point you need to shape the loaves, cover them loosely and let them rise until they double in size again, about 45 minutes. You could put them in greased baking pans and let them rise and bake them in those. I wanted round loaves, so I put them in a couple of couche lined baskets:
  9. Professional bakers use these kinds of baskets I got from a neighbor who works in bakery. It works very well, but you can fake the same thing with a well floured kitchen towel (the linen kind, not a fuzzy one).
  10. I placed the baskets on a table, the couche over the baskets, and the dough in the floured couche in the baskets. I wrapped the edges of the couche around the balls of dough and let them rise. When they had risen I simply unwrapped the loaves and shook them out of the couche onto my peel (which I dust with semolina flour) and threw them into the oven.
  11. While the loaves are rising again, preheat the oven to 425. If you have a baking stone, be sure to put it in early to heat.
  12. When they have doubled in size (as I said before, about 45 minutes after shaping), put the loaves in the oven to bake. I baked them at 425 for 5 minutes and then reduce the temperature to 350 and baked them another half an hour. The loaves are done when the internal temperature reaches the 185 to 195 degree range (as read with an instant-read thermometer) or when they are nice and brown on the outside and sound hollow when tapped on the bottom. For me this took about 35 minutes.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 2215.18 Kcal (9275 kJ)
Calories from fat 213.75 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 23.75g 37%
Cholesterol 60.34mg 20%
Sodium 3340.89mg 139%
Potassium 1450.99mg 31%
Total Carbs 421.35g 140%
Sugars 7.09g 28%
Dietary Fiber 19.11g 76%
Protein 66.9g 134%
Vitamin C 21.4mg 36%
Iron 27.6mg 154%
Calcium 326.6mg 33%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 225.41 Kcal (944 kJ)
Calories from fat 21.75 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2.42g 37%
Cholesterol 6.14mg 20%
Sodium 339.96mg 139%
Potassium 147.65mg 31%
Total Carbs 42.88g 140%
Sugars 0.72g 28%
Dietary Fiber 1.94g 76%
Protein 6.81g 134%
Vitamin C 2.2mg 36%
Iron 2.8mg 154%
Calcium 33.2mg 33%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 45.5
    Points
  • 56
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • low fat,
  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

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