How to Make Bread Bowls

In the Middle ages, people were served food on thick slices of stale bread, and would eat their food, breaking off pieces of bread from their edible bread. Keeping with that tradition, bread bowls are a popular, new bread recipe. Bread bowls are an ingenious and delicious method to serve soups, dips and gravy dishes, irrespective of the cuisine. Bread bowls are round loaves with the top cut off to resemble a bowl. Soups with a thin base cannot be served in bread bowls as the bread tends to get soggy. Nowadays, restaurants like Tim Horton’s, Quizno’s and Domino’s pizza have added bread bowls to their menu. Read this article to learn how to make bread bowls, to spice up your own menu!How to Make Bread Bowls from ScratchIngredients
1 tablespoon cornmeal
6 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons salt
2 eggs
½ cup sugar
½ cup shortening
1 cup warm milk (110 – 115°F)
1 cup warm water (110 – 115°F)
2 (0.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast
Directions
In a bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add milk, shortening, sugar, eggs, salt and 2 cups flour. Beat until smooth. Use remaining flour to form soft dough. On a floured surface, knead for 6-8 minutes until smooth. Place in a greased bowl, turn the dough in the bowl so it’s greased all over. Cover for 1 hour. Punch dough down. On a floured surface, divide into 8 pieces and shape each into a ball. Grease two baking sheets and sprinkle with cornmeal. Place 4 balls on each prepared sheet and cover for 30 minutes. Bake at 350°F for 20 – 25 minutes or until golden brown. Leave to cool. Cut a thin slice off the top of the bread and hollow out the bottom half, leaving a ¼ inch thick shell.Cheesy Bread BowlIngredients1 tablespoon cornmeal
2/3 cup water
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
¼ cup butter
¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Directions
Grease a 9-inch round baking pan, sprinkle it with cornmeal and keep aside. Mix water and butter in a saucepan over heat and bring to boil. Add flour, Parmesan cheese and baking powder, and stir. Remove the pan from heat and beat in eggs, one by one, till the mixture is smooth and shiny. Spoon the mixture into the greased pan and bake at 425°F for 25 – 30 minutes, until the center is firm and puffed, and the edges are a golden brown. Make a small slit in the center to allow steam to escape. Let it cool for a few minutes, then move it to a serving plate. This recipe shows us how to bake bread bowls that are cheesy in taste, and so can be filled with chili or potato soup or even clam chowder. How to Make Bread Bowls from Frozen Bread DoughIngredients
Frozen white bread dough
1 tablespoon butter
Baking tray
Directions
Thaw the dough to room temperature. Grease the baking tray with butter. Divide the dough into 12 chunks and roll them into balls, then place them on the tray. Leave the dough for an hour, so that it doubles in size. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Put the balls into the oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Leave them to cool. Cut a large, round hole in the top and scoop some of the bread underneath, leaving at least a ½ inch of bread in the bowl. How to Make Soup Bread BowlsIngredients
Round loaf of bread
Olive oil
Basting brush
Directions
Preheat oven to 350°F. Cut ½ inch off the top of the load with a knife. Remove bread on the inside, leave about 1½ inches thickness on the inside. Brush olive oil on the inside of the bread bowl. Bake bowl for 15 minutes until golden on the inside. You can also save the top, brush olive oil underneath, bake with bowl, and now you have a lid for your bread bowl.
Nowadays, bread bowls are used in dinner parties as a fancy way to serve dips. Guests can break off pieces of the bowl and eat it with the dip. Weight watchers should take care, bread bowls soak up the soup or gravy and have twice the calories. Be creative and make a bread bowl for your next gathering. Each guest could have their own bowl or one central big bowl for the table. Now that you know the recipe for bread bowls, your delicious soup has an equally yummy bowl.

How to Make Bread Bowls