{"id":7896,"date":"2021-01-10T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfoodflavors.com\/?p=7896"},"modified":"2021-02-07T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T21:15:08","slug":"ham-cheese-spiral-bread-muffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfoodflavors.com\/ham-cheese-spiral-bread-muffin\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Spanish Inspired Ham & Cheese Spiral Bread Muffin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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January 10, 2021. Cold winter day. Spiral Bread Muffin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is one of the recipes that I’ve been meaning to write up and share for the longest time. One of my favorite bakers, Luis Troyano, from the Great British Bake Off, shared this recipe way back in 2015 with the UK Food and Drink Guides. This recipe is inspired by Mr. Troyano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think Luis has a gift of balancing and creating amazing flavors. He passed away suddenly late last year. I made one of his recipes – the Carrot and Cardamom Cake<\/a> that was published in his cookbook, Bake It Great<\/strong>, as a way to pay tribute to this master baker. Hopefully, his legacy of delicious recipes and bakes will live on forever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This clever and delicious spiral bread muffin uses the most popular ingredients you’ll find in Spanish inspired dishes: Jam\u00f3n or ham, delicious Manchego cheese (made from sheep’s milk), roasted red peppers, briny cured olives and good olive oil. Combining these ingredients and wrapping them all up in a blanket of paprika tinged bread dough is just pure flavor genius. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make this, you’ll first create the dough, and then prepare the filling. When the dough is ready, you make a large dough rectangle, and put in all the filling. Then, as if making a large swiss roll, you roll up the entire thing and cut the roll into pieces – each will have a nice swirl in the middle. And that’s pretty much how it’s done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I love the versatility. These great little flavorful self-contained packages are perfect for on-the-go lunch, snacking, an appetizer, or as part of a fancy brunch. Well, let’s get baking!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ingredients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are the items to make the Spiral Bread Muffin. I have listed them in the order they are used. The first group is for making the paprika flavored bread dough, and the second is all the ingredients for the filling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dough<\/strong>
4 cups (500g) bread flour (or high protein flour) and more for rolling out dough (or use rice flour if you have it handy)
11 oz. (320ml) warm water
1 tsp. (10g) salt, preferably fine
3 tsp. (10g) active dry yeast
1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
2 tsp. sweet smoked paprika<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Filling<\/strong>
4 slices (3.5oz\/ 100g) thinly sliced ham, use Spanish Serrano ham if available
1 whole (130g) roasted red pepper, cut into strips
4 slices (3.5oz\/100g) Spanish Manchego cheese, cut into strips
1\u2153 cup (160g) pitted green olives, chopped coarsely
1 tbsp. Fresh ground black pepper
Extra Virgin Olive oil for drizzling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make and shape the bread, you will also need a large mixing bowl, a stand mixer, rolling pin, 12 hole muffin pan, and tulip cupcake\/muffin liners. I find using a stand mixer is the most efficient way to make this recipe, however, feel free to knead by hand if you love getting into the dough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Making the Dough for Spiral Bread Muffin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We will start by making the dough that will be the base of our bread muffin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sift flour into a large mixing bowl. Next, add in all the other ingredients and about 3\/4 of the warm water. Then, stir to combine, or if using a stand mixer use the dough hook attachment. Slowly add more water as required, about 1 tsp at time, until all the dry ingredients are absorbed. You may not need all the water. Once the dough comes together, this is when you see the dough will start to clump together and pull away from the side of the mixing bowl, knead for about 8 to 10 minutes (or about 5 minutes using mixer on low speed) until the dough is smooth and elastic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n