leek bread

A simple delicious recipe for crusty Leek Bread to serve with your favorite soups, stews and salads.  Allow 2 1/2 hours with 35 minutes active time.

Leek Bread

milk (or nut milk), lukewarm

package, fast-acting Instant Yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons) see notes for active dry yeast

tablespoons olive oil or melted butter or ghee

salt

flour

onions

olive oil

thyme (or one teaspoon dried) or sage

pepper

garlic, rough chopped (optional)

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goat cheese, crumbled (4 ounces)

water

In a stand mixer or in a large bowl, mix yeast and milk together. Whisk in the egg, oil, salt , then stir in the flour and knead for five minutes.  The dough should be semi-soft, not stiff.

Oil the boil and the ball of dough, placing it back in the bowl. Cover with a damp kitchen towel and let it rise until doubled, about 1 &#8211; 1 1/2 hours.

In the meantime, cut, rinse and saute the leeks with the oil in a large skillet over low heat. The moisture from rinsing them will help soften them. Add the garlic, thyme, and salt and pepper. When the garlic is fragrant and the leeks are tender, turn the heat off and let this cool.

When dough has doubled, place it on a well-floured surface and roll it into roughly a 12-inch by 16-inch rectangle. Spread out the tender, seasoned leeks and sprinkle with cheese. Make sure to use at least 2 kinds of cheese here for the best flavor &#8211; adding a melty cheese like mozzarella- and make doubly sure you salted your leeks in the pan. 🙂

Starting from the narrower end, roll into a roll. Fold the ends under and place on of parchment&#8211; lined sheet pan.

Cut little &#8220;beaks&#8221; into the dough (refer to photos) at a 45-degree angle, 2/3 rds of the way deep at one-inch intervals. Then pull the points out towards the edges, alternating sides. (See photo above.) Cover with a towel and let rest 20 minutes.

Make the egg wash by whisking the egg, water and salt in a small bowl. Brush the dough gently with egg wash. (Or use butter or half and half).

Place in the hot oven, on the middle rack, uncovered. Check at 20 minutes (rotating if need be) and continue baking until puffed and golden for an additional 20-30 minutes until beautifully golden. NO pale loaves please. 🙂 Internal temp should be at 200F.

Sylvia, this is one of my favorite breads to bake. I make it often and it always gets rave reviews. The dough is beautiful to work with and the recipe is easy but the results look spectacular!

I've made this recipe many times and it always comes out so good! My parents always ask me to make it on special occasions. The flavours are great and the bread is so soft. 
I have used the dough recipe alone to make a loaf of bread and it came out light and soft.

This bread looks so good, and I would like to make it to go along with the Mulligatawny soup, for a friend who is vegan.  Do you think it would be as good without the cheese, or is there something else that I could use.  I am not super thrilled with vegan cheese, but am open to trying one that you have used and recommend.

Fantastic! Definitely one that I’ve been making on a regular basis. My loaf never looked as pretty as the pictures even when I was using traditional ap/whole wheat flour blend, but now that I’ve switched to all einkorn I’ve completely given up on trying to make it pretty bc the gluten structure just can’t deal with the handling. I roll it up, cut with scissors and that’s it. 

The bread keeps well in room temp for 2 days (eat as is) or longer in the fridge (warm up in microwave).

Just found your website, by accident am thrilled with the selections!  Thank you!

I just made the Savory Leek Bread and it came out so beautifully - I wish I could send you the pics! I used white whole wheat bread flour instead of all purpose flour, bec I needed to use it up and so maybe the crumb was a bit more dense? I don't know, I'm not a bread baker, but everyone at our book club party loved it. It was really EASY, great directions, looked pretty as a picture when it came out of the oven, but I couldn't find where you add the thyme in the recipe, so I just added it to the sautéed leeks.

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Savory Leek Bread made with melted leeks and cheese, the perfect accompaniment to soups and stews. 

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