Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread
Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, focaccia croque monsieur bread. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Croque Monsieur is one of those things that sounds super fancy, but in reality it really isn't. Making the focaccia bread from scratch was the most tedious part, but the rest is so easy to handle. There are five ingredients needed for this recipe: focaccia bread, ham, gruyere cheese.

Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

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. Make ready 20 grams Virgin olive oil
  6. Make ready 120 ml Water
  7. Prepare 3 grams Instant Dry Yeast
  8. Make ready For the filling:
  9. Get 1 Bechamel sauce
  10. Prepare 4 to 8 slices Easy melt sliced cheese (see Hints)
  11. Take 4 slice Ham
  12. Get To finish
  13. Get 1 Extra virgin olive oil
  14. Make ready 1 Krazy Salt
  15. Make ready 1 Dried parsley

Ham and cheese are layered with a decadent bechamel sauce between slices of French bread. The sandwich is cooked under a broiler until the cheese is browned and bubbly. Croque Monsieur Casserole Recipe for Breakfast or Dinner. The title Croque Monsieur comes from "croquer", to bite and "monsieur" meaning mister.

Steps 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.

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"). 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. A croque monsieur (French pronunciation: [kʁɔk məsjø]) is a hot sandwich made with ham and cheese.

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