Tomato Swirl Bread
June 5, 2007 by Marye Audet
Filed under Breads
YUM! This has a faint aftertaste of tomato soup! My kids took care of one whole loaf a minute ago by making cheese sandwiches with it. It is unusual and beautiful…So give it a try.
I took the original tomato bread recipe from The Farm Journal Bread Cookbook. I did tweak it a bit as I felt that whole wheat would need a stronger flavor. This scented the entire kitchen this morning. It would make great toast to go with tomato soup, or cheese soup…it would be a good base for burgers…or even a bologna sandwich.
Dough 1-tomato
1 c tomato sauce
2 tbs butter
2 tbs brown sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cloves (just trust me, o.k.?)
2 Tbs ketchup
1 package of dry yeast (or 2 1/4 tsp)
1/4 c warm water
4 cups or so of whole wheat flour OR white flour OR a blend. I used whole wheat.
Soften yeast in water.
Heat tomato sauce, butter, and ketchup and let cool to lukewarm. Add sugar, cloves, salt and yeast mixture to tomato mixture and mix in enough flour to make a soft but kneadable dough (or mix according to mixer directions). Turn out and knead until smooth and elastic.
Oil and set aside to rise.
Dough 2- whole wheat
1 1/2 c warm water
2 Tbs butter
2 tbs brown sugar
1 tsp salt
1 pack dry yeast (or 2 1/4 tsp)
4 cups or so whole wheat flour
Soften yeast in 1/4 c water with sugar. TO other 1 1/4 c water add butter until butter melts (you may need to microwave it and let cool to luke warm). Add salt and yeast mixture…then add flour until you get a soft, kneadable dough…proceed as above.
Let balls of dough rise until double-about 1 1/2 hours. punch down and knead lightly…cut each ball of dough into 2 equal pieces. Let rest 10 minutes.
Roll each ball out into a rectangle of equal sizes. Place a tomato dough rectangle on top of a whole wheat rectangle and roll up tightly pinching dough together at bottom to seal. Repeat with other loaf.
Let rise in greased bread pans for 1 hour or until double.
Bake at 375 for30 minutes or until loaves sound hollow when tapped…Let cool if you can.
Thank you for this recipe, I was struck by how beautiful this bread is. I am definitely going to make a couple loaves.
Hmmm… just made this bread. My swirl isn’t as effective as this one, though not too bad either. I’ll have to remember to roll the dough out much thinner next time. Made mine with half wholewheat, half nutriblend (white + ground up bran). The cloves give it the most amazing flavour. I must say I was very dubious about adding so much, but it really makes it.
This bread looks so beautiful and interesting. I’m going to keep this recipe of yours and will try it out soon.
Thanks for this recipe! I made the bread today, and I love the swirl. I think I’d make a few changes in the ingredients since the cloves aren’t really to my liking, and my loaves could have been more tomato-y. The bread itself turned out wonderfully though.
Misty- it looked like you did it with regular whole wheat flour?
White flour or the Montana white gives a more tomato flavor..the normal whole wheat does tend to overpower it..adding tomato paste is a great idea!