Heathy Bread in Five Minutes Tabbouleh Bread is one of the breads the HBinFive Bakers made for the bi-monthly bake. I didn’t have time to make it at the beginning of the month so I saved it for the November 15th Bread Braid.
I’ve talked about the benefits of the Artisan Bread in Five Minutes and Healthy Bread in Five Minutes methods before, but I must say that this method really came in handy this weekend. I wanted to make this bread, but I had to work. I’m a project manager and this weekend, we implemented an Intranet project that I’ve been working on for the past four months.
I was pretty stressed about this implementation because the days leading up to it were filled with mishaps that I could not control. On Wednesday, my phone lines went down. I thought great, I hope this doesn’t happen Friday night. Fortunately, they were back up in a couple of hours. The next day, the server went down at work. Things were starting to get a little bit weird at this point, but it was only down for a short time so I didn’t worry about it. Then, Friday afternoon, my electricity just went out. Just like that. No storms. Just all of a sudden, no power.
The good thing about the electricity going out was that it gave me some downtime and I was able to mix up the Tabbouleh dough. We implemented the project Friday night and worked out the bugs on Saturday. In between testing, I was able to bake the bread. So if you think you don’t have time to bake bread, them I’m here to prove you wrong because I managed to bake this bread even with my crazy schedule this weekend.
As the title suggests, the dominant flavors in this bread are bulgur wheat, garlic, parsley, and lemon zest. I used more garlic than the recipe called for and added a little more lemon zest. Some of the other bakers had mentioned that this bread wasn’t as flavorful as they would’ve thought so I decided to up the ante a little bit. I think it worked. I liked the flavor.
Baking the Tabbouleh Bread in a Bread Cloche
I decided to bake this Tabbouleh Bread in my La Cloche. I’ve baked other yeast breads in the bread cloche, but I hadn’t tried a no knead bread yet.
To bake it, I just took one pound of dough out of the refrigerator and shaped it into a ball. Then I placed the dough ball in the La Cloche sprinkled with cornmeal, covered it, and let it rise for about an hour and a half.
Then I scored the loaf in a pound pattern
And baked it in the preheated oven at 450 degrees. The cloche wasn’t preheated. I just placed it in the oven after the dough had finished the final rise.
I love the colors of this Tabbouleh Bread. It’s golden brown with flecks of green and brown.
It’s actually quite tasty as well. The crust was nice and crunchy because of baking it in the La Cloche. The inside was delicious as well. I ate some warm with butter.
I made rolls with the remaining dough.
This bread has been YeastSpotted. Please visit Wild Yeast to view all of the lovely breads in the roundup.
We had the rolls with homemade Spiced Pumpkin Soup. My taste tester said this one was a keeper. He liked the rolls and the soup. I did too.
About the HBinFive Baking Group
The HBinFive Baking Group, started by Michelle of Big Black Dogs, is baking through all of the breads in the Healthy Bread in Five Minutes book. For more information on the HBinFive baking group, check out BigBlackDog.
You are so right about the advantages of having dough at the ready.
This bread was one of my favorites, too. I thought the flavor came through pretty well, perhaps because it does not have quite as much WW flour, which seems to dampen flavors. In fact, I just made another batch with some mint as well as parsley, following Michelle’s lead. Thought I should get them from the garden before the snow flies.
We really enjoyed this bread and I agree that it is a keeper recipe.
Gorgeous crust!
I really liked this bread too. Your pictures are great and show how pretty this bread is. I will add more garlic and lemon zest next time I make this too.
I loved the colors in this bread too. I’ve heard of baking in a La Cloche, but I’ve never seen one. Rolls were a good idea for this dough. Pumpkin soup sounds good, though I’ve never made it before. I’m anxious to see your recipe.