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A while back, I ran across a great Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe pin on Pinterest. I love to make bread, from scratch, and my family loves spaghetti. There was no way this could tank! I decided to make it, and it turned out so good, I made it again. It’s definitely one of the prettiest meals I’ve made – and a definite hit!
Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe
I’m not going to tell you how to make spaghetti, because frankly, you probably already have a spaghetti recipe that you love. So here’s what you’ll need to do.
Spaghetti
- Cook your spaghetti.
- Make your sauce how you like it.
- Add the meat to the sauce.
- Combine it all together in one large pot.
While all that’s going, you can either use pre-made bread dough or rolls like in the original recipe here or you can make your own bread dough from your own recipe. I use a really, really quick recipe for bread dough
Bread Dough
- 3 cups all purpose flour (or bread flour if you want)
- 2 tsp active yeast
- 1.5 tsp salt
- 3 tsp sugar
- 1/4 cup oil
- 1.5 cup warm water
Add yeast, salt, sugar, warm mater, and half of the oil in a mixing bowl or KitchenAid with dough hook. Mix until blended, and let sit for five minutes.
Add flour, and let mix until mostly blended and add remainder of the oil letting it drizzle down the inside of the bowl. Mix a few more minutes, and then cover with plastic wrap or warm wet towel. Let sit until spaghetti is ready and cheese is cubed.
Cheese
Cube about 8 ounces (half of a 16 oz block or so) of your choice of cheese. I use Monterrey Jack or Colby Jack cheese because it’s really gooey and yummy. You can use Mozzarella or whatever you’d like.
Assembly
Roll out your dough in a long rectangle and add the spaghetti mixture down the center of it. Make it about 4- 5 inches wide.
Add your cubes of cheese on top of the mixture. Slice the outside of the dough in 1 inch strips making sure you stay about a half an inch from the spaghetti mixture. You don’t want the bottom to bust out of it while it’s cooking. This makes sure you have a good base for your bread.
I’ve found it easiest to fold the dough ends over the spaghetti mixture first. After that, start at one end and begin to braid the strips starting with one side, and then the other. When you get to the end, just kinda tuck and leave it!
Brush the loaf with egg whites and sprinkle basil and garlic powder over the top. The original recipe calls for Parmesan cheese and parsley, but you can sprinkle whatever you’d like on it.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until it looks pretty and golden brown. Slice and serve.
Can’t wait to try yours! Love spaghetti bread!
try it… improve upon it.. frost it.. and post it.. hahahah
My husband would love this!
That looks good. I pinned it for later!
Ok, we saw this and we have made it. It is cooking right now. We did run into a problem and we weren’t sure what we did wrong, but we think we fixed it. We let the bread dough sit while we were making the noodles and sauce. We the noodles are done, as the direction suggest, then we went to roll out the dough. When we took it out of the bowl, it was really runny-wet. We put flour onto the counter top and kneaded more flour into it until it was at least workable for rolling. We were afraid to use too much flour for fear of getting dry flour tasting bread. It was a little tricky cutting then braiding the dough, but we did it. As I stated above, it is now in the oven.
What did we do wrong with the bread dough?
I will post after it is cooked to let you know how it came out.
Already have my meat thawed out…was trying to find ideas of something to make that was simple and different. Can’t wait to do this tonigt!!!
How did it turn out?!!?