Chopped onion bread is a great dinner bread that goes with just about every kind meal, from soups to roasts. Leftover slices can also be made into delicious toast and grilled cheese sandwiches. This recipe for chopped onion bread makes 2 loaves.
Prep Time: 2 hours
Cook Time: 1 hour
Ingredients:
- 1 cup milk
- 3/4 cup warm water
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1-1/2 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1-1/2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1/2 tbsp garlic powder (optional)
- 1/2 cup chopped onions
- 6 cups bread flour, about
Preparation:
- Mix milk, water, sugar, yeast, oil, and salt in large bowl.
- Add garlic, if desired, and chopped onions.
- Mix in one cup of flour at a time until a stiff dough is formed. You may or may not use the full amount of flour depending on your ingredients and other factors.
- Turn dough out onto floured board and knead for about 8 minutes.
- Put dough in greased bowl. Flip dough over inside bowl so that the top of the dough is also greased. Cover with clean kitchen cloth or plastic wrap and let sit in warm place for 45 minutes or until double in size.
- Punch down. Turn dough out onto floured board and knead for about 5 minutes.
- Cut dough into 2 equal parts. Form parts into bread loaves.
- Grease two bread pans and place dough loaves in them. Cover and let rise for about 30 minutes or until double.
- Optional - To get a glossy coating on the bread, brush egg white on the tops of the dough loaves before placing them in the oven.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 1 hour.
- Turn loaves out and let cool on rack.
- When completely cool, loaves can be bagged and frozen for later.
