Cheese-And-Mortadella-Studded Bread
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces and softened slightly, plus additional for greasing pans
- 1 cup warm water (105-115u0b0F)
- 1 (1/4-oz) package active dry yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons)
- 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 oz finely grated Parmigiano-Reggiano (1 cup)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 large eggs
- 3 1/2 ounce Emmental cheese, cut into 1/4-inch dice (2/3 cup)
- 3 1/2 ounce Italian Fontina, cut into 1/4-inch dice (2/3 cup)
- 3 1/2 ounce sliced imported mortadella (preferably from Bologna), cut into 1/4-inch pieces (3/4 cup)
- 3 1/2 ounce sliced prosciutto cotto or baked ham, cut into 1/4-inch pieces (3/4 cup)
- 2 (8-inch) round cake pans (about 2 inches deep) or 1 (12-inch) round cake pan
- Butter cake pans, then line bottoms with a round of parchment or wax paper, and butter paper.
- Stir together water, yeast, and sugar in a small bowl and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. (If mixture doesn't foam, start over with new yeast.)
- Blend flour, parmesan, softened butter, salt, eggs, and yeast mixture in a food processor until combined well.
- Transfer mixture to a large bowl and stir in remaining ingredients with a wooden spoon until evenly distributed. Divide dough between pans, spreading evenly, then enclose each pan in a large (1-gallon) heavy-duty sealable plastic bag and seal bags. Let stand at warm room temperature until dough has risen to about 1/2 inch from rim, about 1 1/2 hours.
- Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350u0b0F.
- Remove pans from bags, then bake bread until tops are golden and bread begins to pull away from side of pans, 30 to 45 minutes.
- Transfer tortas in pans to racks to cool to warm, 1 to 2 hours. Run a thin knife around edge of each pan and invert rack over pan, then invert bread onto rack. Remove paper and use same method to invert bread onto a platter. Cut into wedges.
unsalted butter, warm water, active dry yeast, sugar, allpurpose, salt, eggs, cheese, italian fontina, mortadella, ham, cake pans
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/cheese-and-mortadella-studded-bread-235789 (may not work)