Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread
Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, focaccia croque monsieur bread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Baked ham and cheese with velvety béchamel oozing out all over the place: mind-altering. Spread bread slices with béchamel, dividing evenly and extending all the way to the edges. Croque Monsieur is a delicious French ham and cheese sandwich, made with gruyere, parmesan, ham and a simple béchamel sauce, toasted in the oven.

Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook focaccia croque monsieur bread using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread:
  1. Get 200 grams or French bread flour or all-purpose bread flour (Lys d'Or brand recommended), or substitute with bread and cake flour
  2. Take 5 grams Sugar
  3. Prepare 4 grams Salt
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp Skim milk powder
  5. Prepare 20 grams Virgin olive oil
  6. Prepare 120 ml Water
  7. Take 3 grams Instant Dry Yeast
  8. Take For the filling:
  9. Prepare 1 Bechamel sauce
  10. Get 4 to 8 slices Easy melt sliced cheese (see Hints)
  11. Prepare 4 slice Ham
  12. Make ready To finish
  13. Make ready 1 Extra virgin olive oil
  14. Get 1 Krazy Salt
  15. Prepare 1 Dried parsley

The sandwich is cooked under a broiler until the cheese is browned and bubbly. The title Croque Monsieur comes from "croquer", to bite and "monsieur" meaning mister. It is made of simple ingredients found in any French home; bread, cheese and ham. The bread is usually a more sweet version of normal bread, a bit like brioche ("pain de mie").

Instructions to make Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread:
  1. Make the bechamel sauce, and let it cool.
  2. Put all the bread dough ingredients into a bread machine and start the "dough" program. Put the yeast in the specified location. Leave the bread machine do all the work until the first rising is complete.
  3. When the dough is done, take it out, deflate and divide into 4 pieces. Round off each piece, and cover with a tightly wrung moistened kitchen towel. Leave to rest for 15 minutes.
  4. Roll the dough out into a square, spread the middle with bechame sauce, and top with a slice each of ham and cheese folded in half. Bring the opposing corners of the dough together as shown.
  5. Bring all 4 corners of the dough together, and pinch to seal the seams.
  6. Place the 4 pieces of dough on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Setting your oven to the bread-rising setting, leave the dough to rise at 35 °C for 35-40 minutes (2nd rising).
  7. When the dough has risen, start preheating the oven to 210 °C. While waiting, brush the tops of the bread with olive oil and make several indentations in them using your fingers or the thick end of a chopstick.
  8. Brush a little more olive oil on the dough so that some of it pools in the indentations. Sprinkle with Krazy Salt and parsley to finish.
  9. Lower the oven temperature to 200°C and bake for 15 minutes. Adjust the temperature and baking time depending on your oven. If it looks like the bread is browning too fast, cover with a sheet of foil.
  10. I recommend eating these piping hot fresh out of the oven. I added skim milk powder to the dough to make it more tender, but they're also good cold.
  11. You can warm these up in a toaster oven after they've turned cold to revive the soft, fluffy texture.
  12. I used this instant bechamel sauce mix that you can make by just adding milk.
  13. The dough gets flattened when you make the indentations, so I give this a shorter 2nd rising than for usual bread.

Master the croque monsieur with soft sourdough, gruyère, smoked ham and creamy mustard mayo. You'll relish every mouthful of this brunch classic. Turn the bread over and spread each slice with a thin layer of Dijon, followed by a layer of the béchamel. Cover the sauce with grated gruyère, and then. The Croque Monsieur might not be the most boastful of French foods, but you can pretend you're enjoying a relaxing afternoon at a Parisian bistro overlooking the Seine, while you munch this concoction of crisp bread, salty ham, and melty cheese.

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