You can use it for so many recipes and the dough last longer than most because it's so moist.
The best part is it's texture, softness, and heaviness, perfect for stews and soups!
Potato bread is delicious toasted and great for breakfast.
You can leave the herbs out and make it unflavored either way it's delicious.
Grandma and Growing Up Baking Bread
When I think of potato bread I think of heavy old fashioned bread. The texture is dense but reminds me of the days where all the bread was that way.
When I was little my grandmother would make this bread twice a week. I would intensely watch her pound that dough with her fists.
The end results the bread was still dense. She used the square little old fashioned yeast cakes that sat in the warm water bubbling getting ready to be put in a bowl.
A Hearty Loaf
The potato bread is nothing like regular yeast bread. It's thick, hearty and perfect for dipping in stews or making toast and great flatbread.
You can make pizza, bread, rolls, flats bread, fried dough, stuffed dough such as stromboli and calzones and it's perfect for focaccia.
Grandma used leftover mashed potatoes most of the time.
Very Old Recipe
This recipe is probably 120 years ago or more, still delicious and gets better with age! If you have ever attempted homemade bread before, this is easy but much denser than most.
It's a heavy old fashioned bread. Although it's risen, it still has a heavier weight than most bread doughs.
Most bread is light and airy. This texture is much different.
It is delicious but has that old fashioned from scratch taste.
Easy to Make
Heavy dense bread, not light and fluffy.
A perfect bread to sop up stews, and soups.
I have several suggestions and photos of what I have tried to make with it below.
Great for making rolls!
Bursting with fresh herb flavors great for making rolls for hot dogs, hamburgers and even sub rolls!
The dough stays fresh and lasts around 1 week sealed in a plastic zip-lock bag in the refrigerator.
If you don't use it all at the same time, you will have it all ready to rise after you take it out, just cover it with plastic wrap and a towel and let it rise till doubled.
Just proceed with the same instructions.
Ingredients You Will Need to Make Homemade Potato Herb Bread
- mashed potatoes (I use yellow boiling potatoes)
- olive oil
- dry yeast
- temped tap water ( warm to the feel on your wrist)
- brown sugar
- salt
- black pepper
- fresh rosemary
- fresh oregano and basil
- fresh minced garlic
- flour
- Optional: sage, thyme, red pepper flakes
Tools
- Mixing Bowl
- Measuring Cups
- Measuring Spoons
- Industrial Mixer
- Pan's IE cookie sheets, pizza pans, dough pans
Storing the Bread
This bread stays fairly fresh for up to 4 days.
I like to make pizza shells and freeze them to make focaccia or pizza another time.
The bread can be stored in ziplock freezer bags.
More Recipes to Try:
Ciabatta
Easter
Hoagies
Artisian
Pizza Dough
Sausage Roll
Pizza Fritta
Pita
This is an Easy Bread Recipe!
This Homemade Potato Herb Bread dough is so easy to make. With a little patience, you will have the best-tasting potato herb bread on your tables!
Great for dipping this herb bread in stews and chili.
For all the folks out there that love a little heat, don't be afraid to add some red pepper flakes to kick it up a notch or two!
Baking bread can be fun, just follow these simple instructions and start making some herb bread, my Sicilian pizza, rolls or just use it for stromboli or calzones.
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Homemade Potato Herb Bread
prep time: 25 minscook time: 2 hourtotal time: 2 hours and 25 mins
ingredients:
2 cups mashed potatoes (I use yellow boiling potatoes)
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 package dry yeast
1/2 cup temped tap water ( warm to the feel on your wrist)
1 tablespoon brown sugar
2 1/4 teaspoons salt or 2 teaspoons sea salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
1 teaspoon each chopped fresh oregano and basil
1 teaspoon fresh minced garlic
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
4 cups flour
Optional: 1/4 teaspoon each sage, thyme, red pepper flakes
instructions:
In a large mixing bowl mix the water and yeast together. After 5 minutes add the sugar, mashed potatoes, and 2 cups flour stir together. Add the seasonings, herbs, garlic and rest of the flour, using the flat beater on a heavy-duty mixer beat till dough forms a ball around 2 minutes. Cover and let rise in a warm place till double. Around an hour and a half. Stretch out in pans of choice whatever you want to make with this. Rise 1/2 hour. Prepare as bread, pizza or rolls. Bake at 400 degrees preheated oven for around 25 minutes to an hour depending on what you are using the dough for. Breads and filled bread take longer as they are thicker.
Note: You can make garlic rolls brushed with butter and more herb seasoning, Pizza crusts, rolls, filled pizza, calzones or stromboli, great fried dough, or bread, makes a nice flatbread also
calories
120
120
fat (grams)
3
3
carbs (grams)
9
9
protein (grams)
6
6
sugar (grams)
3
3
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