So we had a big block of cheese which was a bit stronger tasting than usual and @sift66 went and bought something a bit milder for nibbling on. Hmm, what shall I do with over 600gm of cooking cheese? Cheesy bread!
In the fridge, we also had some leftover roast pumpkin, and four egg whites left over from putting egg yolks in my smoothies. So I decided to throw them all together in the bread. Fair warning, this was an experiment, not a tried and true recipe. But apart from when the baking paper caught on fire on the oven element, it went ok.
The Process
I turned on the oven to about 170C, then into the food processor went:
• 500gm / 5 cups blanched ground almonds / almond flour
• 180gm / 2 cups grated tasty cheddar cheese
I mixed them up a bit together, then transferred to a large bowl. Second lot of things into the food processor was:
• 4 whole eggs
• 4 egg whites (normally that would be 2 extra whole eggs)
• 180gm / 1 cup cooked pumpkin
• ½ cup homemade yoghurt
• 2 ml mustard
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 1.5 tsp baking soda
Once they were well combined, I poured the mix into the dry ingredients and mixed it all up. We had some workmen in the house today, fitting a high speed broadband modem, so I was a bit distracted and didn’t remember to take a photo of the mix till some of it had already gone into the lined loaf tin.
Since I had to take it out of the oven to put out the fire at one point, I lost track of how long I cooked it for, but probably just over an hour.
Reminder to self – if the top element in your oven droops down a bit, a) preheat the oven a little extra and turn it down once your item is in, b) trim the baking paper and/or c) FFS make sure the tin is pushed far enough into the oven, so that the paper isn’t touching the element, ya dozy bitch!
The Verdict
It wasn’t quite as cheesy as expected, and I could still taste the pumpkin a little, so another time, I’d use ¾ cup each yoghurt and pumpkin. And because of the cheese, it had quite a brown crust. But overall, reasonably successful.
What happened to the rest of the cheese?
That got grated up and bagged, and put into the freezer for next time I want to make cheesy bread or my grain free cheese muffins or scones
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