These homemade bread bowls are a step to the ultimate comfort meal. Whether it is a bowl for soup, salad, or for an egg casserole, these bread bowls are perfect!
Our weather here in Pennsylvania has turned into a cold front moving in. As I am writing this, we have a fire crackling in our fireplace, and I am snuggled up on the couch with a blanket.
I don’t think there will be anymore going back and forth between temperatures outside. So, with that being said, it is time to pull out all of the cozy comfort meals in the book.
What comes to mind when I think of comfort meals for the cool weather is creamy soups, pastas, and warm sandwich recipes like this slow cooker French dip sandwich.
Another one of those comfort meals being bread bowls! Now, not that bread bowls is a meal in and of itself, but you can put anything in a bread bowl, and it becomes a comfort meal. They are a fun way to spice up a soup or even a salad and many more recipes!
Panera Bread is known for their bread bowls with creamy soups inside of them. While they are absolutely delicious, once you make your own bread bowls at home, you won’t want to get them at Panera Bread anymore!
Why You Will Love This Homemade Bread Bowls Recipe
One reason you will love these homemade bread bowls is that they are so simple to make and bring together. They require little hands-on work but turn out absolutely delicious.
Homemade Bread Bowls are also so versatile. You don’t just need to fill them with soup. There are so many other recipes to fill them with. But we’ll get into that later.
You will also love these homemade bread bowls because of the texture. They have a crunchy almost rustic like outside, but the inside of the bread bowl is soft and chewy. What could be better?!
Creative Ways to Use a Homemade Bread Bowls
- This oven roasted tomato basil soup is the perfect creamy soup to put in a bread bowl. Top the soup with homemade sourdough croutons and it would be even better!
- I love the sound of having a Caesar salad in a bread bowl. Such a good combo!
- Using a bread bowl as a bowl for dip is a great appetizer idea, especially for football Sundays!
- This one may be one of my favorites… warm cranberry and thyme brie bread bowl.
Ways to Use the Bread Inside the Bowl
Don’t throw that bread out in the center! Here are some fun ways to use it up…
- Homemade Croutons for soups or salads
- Overnight Baked French Toast
- Homemade Stuffing – perfect for Thanksgiving coming up!
- Bread Pudding
Ingredients
All-purpose flour
Active dry yeast
Water
Salt
Tools You May Need
Large mixing bowl
Wooden spatula
Parchment paper
Plastic wrap
Dutch oven
How to Make Bread Bowls Step-by-Step
To start, put all of the ingredients (flour, active dry yeast, water, and salt) into a large mixing bowl and mix with a wooden spatula until a shaggy dough forms. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap to help create humidity and allow to rise for 2 hours.
Once the two hours is almost up, place a Dutch oven in the oven at 445 degrees F and allow to preheat with the Dutch oven in there.
Once the 2 hours is up, the dough should be doubled in size. Now, lightly flour a surface and dump the dough onto the flour surface and divide into 3-4 equal sized rough dough balls. Keep in mind the sizes you make the dough balls will puff up and become bigger. Place the dough balls onto small pieces of parchment paper and set in the hot preheated Dutch oven.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes with the lid on to create steam, then take the lid off and bake for another 5-10 minutes or until the top is crusty and a nice golden-brown color. Allow the bread bowls to cool almost completely by placing them on a wire rack.
Once the bread bowls have cooled almost completely, take a bread knife and slice off the top “mound” part of the bread like shown in the first photo above. Then, carve out the inside of the bread by taking out the bread in the middle and sides, but also leaving a little bit on the sides so the sides aren’t too thin.
Enjoy by filling as desired!
Homemade Bread Bowls
These homemade bread bowls have a rustic, crunchy, yet chewy outside and soft inside! Perfect for soups, salads, and more. An ultimate comfort meal for the cold months ahead.
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast (1 packet)
- 2 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 2 cups warm water
Instructions
- To start, add the flour, yeast, salt, and water into a large mixing bowl and mix until a shaggy dough forms. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let rise for 2 hours.
- About 15 minutes before the two hours is up, place a Dutch oven in the oven and preheat at 445 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Dump the dough onto a lightly floured surface and using a dough scraper, divide into 4-6 equal sized dough balls. Keep in mind, the size of the dough balls will about double in size.
- Place the dough balls onto individual pieces of parchment paper, then place in the preheated Dutch oven.
- Bake with the lid on for 20 minutes, then take the lid off and bake for another 5-10 minutes or until the top is crusty and has a nice golden color to it.
- Place the bread bowls on a wire rack to cool almost completely.
- Once cooled almost completely, slice the top "mound" part of the bread off and take out the inside bread.
- Enjoy as desired!
More From Brick House on Green
The Best Homemade Thanksgiving Goat Cheese Salad
Easy Dark Chocolate Hot Chocolate Homemade Recipe
Homemade Pumpkin Pie | The Best Pumpkin Dessert
Leave a Reply