Pepper Jack Cheese Bread
Pepper Jack cheese bread is a little unusual. The recipe includes two kinds of cheese as well as Tabasco sauce. Wild, right? I hope you like the bread as much as we do!
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I love the Pepper Jack Bread…I shared at work and am currently making a loaf for a co-worker! ~ Sandy
We used the bread in sandwiches. It added a hint of cheesy flavor without being overwhelming. The crust was especially tasty.
Here’s how the bread looked as it came out of the bread machine:
And here’s how it looked as it was being sliced:
What is Tobasco Sauce
According to Wikipedia, Tabasco hot sauce made is made from tabasco peppers, vinegar and salt. It was created over 150 years ago by Edmund McIlhenny. Now Tabasco products are sold in more than 195 countries and territories, and packaged in 36 languages and dialects.
While this recipe uses the original Tobasco sauce, there are other varieties. Those include habanero, chipotle, sriracha and Trinidad Moruga scorpion.
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Are you a fan of cheese bread? Then try this cheese and onion bread recipe. It tastes great and the crust is superb! No one will want the crust cut off of sandwiches made with this bread. When it’s done you’ll have flavorful bread that’s great for sandwiches.
Making Pepper Jack Cheese Bread
This makes a two-pound loaf of bread. Use the basic setting with medium crust.
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the machine first.
I recommend that you check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. Pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough is doing. It should be a smooth, round ball.
If it’s too dry, add milk a teaspoon at a time until it looks right. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks right.
Pepper Jack Cheese Bread Recipe
Again, this makes a two-pound loaf of bread. Use the basic setting with medium crust.
1 cup milk
3 cups bread flour
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup grated Pepper Jack cheese firmly packed
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
1/2 to 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce (optional)
See below for metric measurements, as well as nutrition information, for this bread machine pepper jack cheese bread recipe.
Pepper Jack Cheese Bread
Recommended Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup (236.59 ml) milk
- 3 cups (375 g) bread flour
- 1 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 1 cup (113 g) Pepper Jack cheese firmly packed
- 1/4 cup (25 g) Parmesan cheese grated
- 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco sauce (1/2 to 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce is optional)
Instructions
- Note that this is for a two-pound loaf of bread. Use the basic setting with medium crust.
- Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the machine first.
- Check the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. (Pop the top of the bread machine and see how the dough looks.) It should be a smooth, round ball. If it’s too dry add liquid a teaspoon at a time until it looks OK. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK.
Notes
Nutrition
All information presented within this site is intended for informational purposes only. I am not a certified nutritionist and any nutritional information on breadmachinediva.com should only be used as a general guideline. This information is provided as a courtesy and there is no guarantee that the information will be completely accurate. I try to provide accurate information to the best of my ability; however these figures should still be considered estimates.
I just made this and it’s excellent! Perfect rise, flavor and mouth feel. I had to make a few adjustments based on previous experience (I’m on my second Zojirushi BB-CEC20 since 2011). Nice zing but not blow your head open.
• 250 grams (1 cup) (236.59 ml) milk
• 420 grams (3 cups) King Arthur AP flour (what I can get cheap at Costco)
• 15 grams gluten
• 9 grams (1 ¼ teaspoon) salt
• 12 grams (1 TBL) sugar
• 113 g (1 cup) Pepper Jack cheese firmly packed. I hand grated a block of cheese.
• 25 g (¼ cup) Parmesan cheese grated
• 1 ½ teaspoons active dry yeast
• (About 3 grams) ½ tsp Tabasco
Thank you so much for the detailed comment! I’m really glad the bread turned out so well.
I especially appreciate you sharing your adjustments. Using King Arthur all-purpose flour with added vital wheat gluten is a helpful option for people who don’t have bread flour on hand.
Thanks again for taking the time to share exactly what worked for you!
I tried finding “grated” pepper jack cheese but can only find “shredded”. Does the recipe actually use the grated or shredded? Thank you, I love following your bread recipes.
I grated the cheese from a block of pepper jack. I would think that shredded cheese would work fine though.
I cut this recipe in half, used the bread machine to knead the bread, then pulled it out and shaped it like a French roll, let it rise on a pan and cooked it in the oven at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. It was absolutely perfect. This is one of the best recipes I’ve ever had. Thank you so much for posting!
Glad you liked it!
I love the Pepper Jack Bread…I shared at work and am currently making a loaf for a co-worker!
I have a dak turbo II, there are only 3 settings, white, French, and sweet bread, what should I use?
Hi Tim, I’d try the white setting.
My another question – I checked the consistency of my dough after kneading cycle, and decided to add 1 tbpsn of milk. At the end of rise cycle, my dough had risen more on one side. So the baked bread did not have an even surface. What must have happened, can you tell?
When making bread for a 1.5 pound recipe in a 2 pound machine you’ll often get “hippo loaves”. Those are loaves of bread shaped like the body of a hippo.
Thanks for quick responce. Actually I was using 2 lb recipe. Is there any way we can avoid making a hippo?
I’m not sure what caused the problem. However I will say that unevenly formed loaves to happen from time to time.
Marsha, I have been reading and reading your blog and just could not stop reading. I have some generic questions. I have Zojirushi Home Bakery Virtuoso.
1. I bought Bob’s Red Mill Unbleached White Flour and a WHole Wheat Flour of the same company (5 lb each). When you say you use “Bread Flour” in your recipe, which one do you use? WHite Flour or Wheat Flour? I have tried using both and Wheat Flour does not make my bread as moist and soft. I would like more moist bread, my breads are too dry. I am measuring everything perfectly, not sure what is going wrong?
Thanks for leaving a comment! When I say “bread flour” I mean white bread flour. For a soft, moist bread I recommend sour milk bread with a light crust setting. (You don’t have to use sour milk. Regular milk will be fine.)
I ended up making a loaf of this bread today, used Romono and Parmasan scince I didn’t have the cheese powder, I used extra sharp cheddar and added bacon to it, it came out a little smaller than I hoped but it was pretty good, wasn’t as cheesy as I hoped for but will tweak it a little next time
How big of a loaf does this make? (i.e. 1, 1 1/2, 2lb.) It sounds awesome. Thank you!
Good question. I’ll add that information to the post. It makes a 2 pound loaf.
I have this in my bread machine right now to serve with baked potato soup. I made your onion cheese bread for Superbowl and loved it. I may have to limit that one as I ate the majority of the loaf. 🙂
Rachel, That’s too funny about the onion cheese bread. 🙂 And now I’m hungry for pepper jack cheese bread and baked potato soup. That sounds like a great combination!
I used it as my dipper for all the yummy dips. I suppose it was better than a bag of chips. 🙂