Jalapeño Cheddar Cottage Cheese Pull-Aside Bread

This can be my new favourite appetizer of all time! I took our high-protein dough and turned it into probably the most epic jalapeño cheddar cottage cheese pull-apart bread. It’s tacky, spicy, and completely chewy. Make this on your subsequent sport day get collectively and your mates shall be requesting it over and over like mine are!

A loaf of savory bread with visible cheese and jalapeño slices rests on parchment paper, with a box of Land O Lakes butter in the background.

Wonderful taste: Jalapeños and cheddar cheese have been made to be collectively. I like that this bread is completely tacky, and a little bit bit spicy.
Protein-packed: 21g of protein per serving to be precise!
Excellent for sport day: My mates straight up REQUEST this recipe for each sport day get collectively.

Components You Want

Blended cottage cheese: This not solely amps up the protein on this pull-apart bread, it provides wonderful moisture and taste. Be sure you use a minimum of 2% fats cottage cheese as a result of low fats or fat-free cottage cheese incorporates an excessive amount of water.
All-purpose flour: AP flour is the bottom of this pull-apart bread dough. It helps create the right crispy and chewy dough when baked. I’ve not examined this recipe (but) with gluten-free AP flour or almond flour. Let me know within the feedback in the event you attempt it!
Baking powder: As a result of this dough doesn’t have any yeast, it wants baking powder as a leavening agent. Don’t skip it!
Jalapeños: You’ll have to mince the jalapeños and take away the seeds in the event you’re delicate to spice. Be happy so as to add extra sliced jalapeños to the highest of the bread earlier than you bake it. It seems to be actually fairly!
Cheddar cheese cubes: I used these cheese cubes, however if you wish to use a block of cheese as a substitute, simply be sure you slice it into 1/2 inch cubes.
Melted butter: You’ll toss the dough balls in melted butter earlier than assembling within the loaf pan. This not solely provides nice taste, it helps the bread simply pull aside after baking.

A mixing bowl containing flour, yogurt, and chopped green peppers being stirred with a white spatula.

A person in a denim shirt cuts a roll of dough into pieces on a floured surface in a kitchen.

The right way to Make Pull-Aside Bread

Put together the dough: Place the blended cottage cheese, flour, baking powder, sea salt, and jalapeños in a big bowl, and stir till mixed. Then, utilizing your fingers, press collectively till a ball has fashioned. Switch the dough to a floured work floor, and knead collectively till clean.
Make the pull-apart dough balls: Divide the dough into 4 equal items, and roll right into a log about 6 inches lengthy. Reduce every log into 8 items, and place a dice of cheese in every bit and roll right into a ball.
Toss in butter: Place the dough balls into a big bowl and toss with melted butter.
Switch the dough balls to the lined loaf pan and place further cheese cubes between the dough balls on the highest.
Bake the pull-apart bread: Bake at 375℉ for Half-hour lined after which uncover and bake for a further 20-Half-hour or till the highest is golden brown and the center is cooked by. Take away from the oven and let the bread relaxation for 10 minutes earlier than eradicating it from the loaf pan.
Drizzle the bread with honey and revel in instantly.

Straightforward Substitutions

Cut back the spice: Love the flavour of jalapeños, however wish to restrict the spice? Be sure you take away the seeds earlier than mincing the jalapeños.

Amp up the spice: Sure, lady! Depart the seeds within the jalapeños and add extra sliced jalapeños to the highest of the bread earlier than baking.

Serving Solutions

I like drizzling honey on the highest of this bread earlier than serving. It provides the right quantity of sweetness that balances out the spicy jalapeños taste.

Storage Solutions

Retailer this pull-apart bread in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3 days. Reheat both within the microwave or lined within the oven to get the cheese good and melty.

Two hands pull apart a piece of baked bread topped with sliced jalapeños, with a package of butter visible in the background.

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Preheat the oven to 375℉. Line a loaf pan with parchment paper.
Place the cottage cheese, flour, baking powder, sea salt, and jalapeños in a big bowl. Utilizing a silicon or picket spoon, stir till mixed. Then, utilizing your fingers, press collectively till a ball has fashioned.
Switch the dough to a floured work floor. Knead collectively till clean. You might have to sprinkle extra flour excessive in order that it’s not tremendous sticky.
Divide the dough into 4 equal items. Roll right into a log, about 6 inches lengthy. Reduce every log into 8 items. Place a dice of cheese in every bit and roll right into a ball. Put aside.
Place the balls into a big bowl and toss with the melted butter.
Switch the dough balls to the lined loaf pan and place further cheese cubes between the dough balls on the highest.
Bake for Half-hour lined after which uncover and bake for a further 20-Half-hour or till the highest is golden brown and the center is cooked by.
Take away from the oven and let the bread relaxation for 10 minutes earlier than eradicating it from the loaf pan.
Drizzle the bread with honey and revel in instantly.