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Our Best Bread Recipes

By Food & Wine Updated March 30, 2021
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Focaccia with Roasted Squash
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F&W's fantastic recipes for homemade breads and biscuits include savory rosemary-potato focaccia rolls, sweet cinnamon banana bread and more.

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Halvah-Stuffed Challah

Halvah-Stuffed Challah
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Blogger Molly Yeh fills this braided bread with a mix of halvah (the confection made with crushed sesame seeds and honey) and tahini. Yeh recommends using an extra-smooth, pourable tahini (Whole Foods' 365 brand is a good bet), but if your tahini is cakey and thick, she advises mixing it with warm water until spreadable.

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Homemade Bagels

Homemade Bagels
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The trick to these crisp, chewy bagels is the poolish, a fermentation starter (also known as a mother dough) made with bread flour, yeast and water. It is quickly assembled the night before the bagels are made.

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Irish Brown Bread

Irish Brown Bread
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Even though this bread is dense, hearty and complex-tasting, it requires no yeast and therefore no rising time. Cathal Armstrong says he likes it best "fresh from the oven and with lots of Kerrygold butter."

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Raised Pumpkin Bread with a Pumpkin-Pecan-Cranberry Swirl

Raised Pumpkin Bread with a Pumpkin-Pecan-Cranberry Swirl
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The festive twist on cinnamon-swirl bread makes this loaf special enough for a holiday brunch, but don't limit yourself. A toasted, buttered slice can warm up any chilly morning.

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Chorizo-Olive Griddle Cakes with Chile Butter

Chorizo-Olive Griddle Cakes with Chile Butter
Credit: © Frances Janisch

These little patties are moist and dense, almost like a griddle scone. Grace Parisi cooks them on a griddle, just like pancakes, and serves them with a spicy butter made with sambal oelek (Asian chile sauce).

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Pull-Apart Cheesy Onion Bread

Pull-Apart Cheesy Onion Bread
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This recipe is as fun to eat as monkey bread (little balls of yeast dough that are baked in a pan together, then pulled apart at the table) but a lot less time-consuming to make.

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Peppered Corn Bread

Tennessee: Corn Bread

John Currence ingeniously uses both naturally low-fat buttermilk and fat-free sour cream to make his tender corn bread.

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Cinnamon-Banana Bread

Cinnamon-Banana Bread
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This recipe is full of potassium-packed bananas. Instead of processed sugar, it calls for agave nectar, a natural sweetener; a little canola oil replaces the usual butter. The bread is an improvement on the one Erin McKenna often made with her mother when she was growing up: "I thought it was so healthy, because of the bananas. I didn't factor in all the sugar and butter."

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Rosemary-Potato Focaccia Rolls

Rosemary-Potato Focaccia Rolls

Jessamyn Waldman makes her excellent focaccia rolls from a dough she learned while baking at New York City's Restaurant Daniel. When she sells the rolls at farmers' markets, she varies the toppings by season; she uses potato and rosemary in the winter and tomatoes and feta in the summer.

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Orange Popovers

How to Make Popovers: Serve
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Grace Parisi loves popovers, but baking them can be tricky: They don't always rise as they should. For these foolproof ones, Grace adds a bit of baking powder to the batter and chooses to use a regular (not nonstick) muffin tin.

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Jessamyn's Sephardic Challah

Jessamyn's Sephardic Challah
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Jessamyn Waldman, founder of Hot Bread Kitchen, grew up in Canada eating challah, the Jewish Sabbath bread. Unlike the eggy challahs of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe, this version comes from the Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean, who flavored their challahs with caraway and anise. Many challahs are braided, but this one is twisted into a round, turban-shaped loaf.

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Honey Spelt Bread

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Lionel Vatinet sweetens his bread with local honey, which may benefit the immune system and help to combat allergies.

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Parker House Rolls Topped with Cheddar and Old Bay

Parker House Rolls Topped with Cheddar and Old Bay

"Old Bay isn't really a Cleveland thing," says Jonathon Sawyer about the seasoning on these fluffy, buttery rolls, "but sometimes it's the right ingredient. I remember my mother's Parker Houses being laced with salty, savory Old Bay and a mean aged cheddar."

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Onion-Mustard Monkey Bread

Buttery Maple-Thyme Biscuits
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These buttery, onion-flecked, pull-apart rolls are an irresistible cross between Parker House classics and bialys.

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Crusty White Bread

Crusty White Bread
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To make a chunky bread, fold in 2 1/2 cups toasted sunflower seeds, 5 cups soaked and drained dried currants or 6 cups walnut halves in Step 3, after folding in the salt water.

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English Muffins

English Muffins

Chef-owner Billy Allin serves his airy, chewy homemade English muffins all day long. In the morning, he offers them with butter and jams, such as house-made peach preserves; later in the day, he might use them for BLTs and other sandwiches.

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German-Style Pretzels

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These chewy pretzels from chef Hans Röckenwagner develop a shiny, professional-looking crust as they bake.

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Rye Berry Bread

Rye Berry Bread
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Thinly sliced, toasted or not, this dense, hearty whole-grain bread is wonderful topped with smoked salmon, sour cream and chopped onions, or with bitter orange marmalade. Allow time for the sponge to sit overnight.

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Black-Pepper Breadsticks

Black-Pepper Breadsticks
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Scott Conant serves these tender, peppery breadsticks as a starter. He packs them into a tall glass or plates them with small wedges of La Tur cheese (a dense, buttery Piedmont cheese made from a blend of cow, sheep and goat milk), drizzled with aged balsamic vinegar and sprinkled with flaky sea salt.

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Chocolate Brioche with Sichuan Peppercorns

Chocolate Brioche with Sichuan Peppercorns
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Gontran Cherrier, who has an eponymous bakery in Paris's 18th arrondisement, spent several years in the pastry kitchen at elite Paris restaurants like L'Arpège and Lucas Carton. So when he creates a bread, he often thinks about pairing it with a dish. He made this light chocolate brioche with foie gras terrine in mind; the Sichuan peppercorns add a spicy, aromatic kick that's good with rich foods. The brioche is also delicious with strawberry jam or quince paste.

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Strawberry-Pecan Quick Bread

Strawberry-Pecan Quick Bread
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As this loaf bakes in the oven, the texture of chewy dried strawberries softens slightly. Buy your dried strawberries at a specialty food shop or health food store that rotates its stock frequently to make sure that they're plump and moist.

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Yogurt-Zucchini Bread with Walnuts

Yogurt-Zucchini Bread with Walnuts
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This moist, nutty bread is a terrific way to use up late-summer zucchini. The walnuts in the bread are super-heart-healthy, and the yogurt adds moisture without any fat.

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Raisin Rye Bread

Raisin Rye Bread
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Lionel Vatinet developed this hearty bread—a good source of fiber—to satisfy his Eastern European customers.

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Persian Flatbread

Persian Flatbread
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Nan-e barbari is a classic Persian flatbread that gets crisp and golden in the oven, thanks to roomal, a flour paste that's spread over the bread before it's baked. Jessamyn Rodriguez likes to serve it with feta and olives.

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Injera

Injera

Ethiopians eat with their hands and use this tangy, spongy, crêpe-like flatbread like silverware. It's made from teff, tiny whole grains the size of poppy seeds that are ground into flour. This ancient grain is gluten-free and provides calcium, iron and protein. The flour is mixed with water to make a pourable batter that ferments overnight and develops its characteristic, mildly sour flavor. It's cooked quickly on one side in a skillet like a pancake until bubbles appear on the surface.

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Focaccia with Caramelized Onions, Pear and Blue Cheese

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In a class at Point Reyes's culinary center, students learn to top focaccia with pears and blue cheese.

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Monkey Bread with Honey-Bourbon Sauce


Monkey Bread with Honey-Bourbon Sauce
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Michelle Gayer of Salty Tart bakery in Minneapolis smothers her monkey bread with honey-laced brown butter before baking then serves the pull-apart bread with a cream cheese–based dipping sauce that's spiked with bourbon.

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Focaccia with Roasted Squash

Focaccia with Roasted Squash
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Michelle Gayer tops her sensational focaccia with sweet, tender strips of roasted butternut squash scattered with thyme and drizzled with honey.

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Irish Soda Bread

Irish Soda Bread
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This soda bread has no eggs, no butter, no sugar, and no raisins—just baking soda, flour, buttermilk, and salt. Enjoy it with a swoop of good Irish butter.

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Birote (Guadalajaran Sourdough Bread)

Birote Bread Recipe
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Birote (pronounced bee-row-teh) is a crunchy, darkly baked sourdough bread said to have a flavor unique to the environment of Guadalajara, but if you grab your favorite beer and some limes, you'll come pretty close!

 

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    5 of 30 Chorizo-Olive Griddle Cakes with Chile Butter
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    9 of 30 Rosemary-Potato Focaccia Rolls
    10 of 30 Orange Popovers
    11 of 30 Jessamyn's Sephardic Challah
    12 of 30 Honey Spelt Bread
    13 of 30 Parker House Rolls Topped with Cheddar and Old Bay
    14 of 30 Onion-Mustard Monkey Bread
    15 of 30 Crusty White Bread
    16 of 30 English Muffins
    17 of 30 German-Style Pretzels
    18 of 30 Rye Berry Bread
    19 of 30 Black-Pepper Breadsticks
    20 of 30 Chocolate Brioche with Sichuan Peppercorns
    21 of 30 Strawberry-Pecan Quick Bread
    22 of 30 Yogurt-Zucchini Bread with Walnuts
    23 of 30 Raisin Rye Bread
    24 of 30 Persian Flatbread
    25 of 30 Injera
    26 of 30 Focaccia with Caramelized Onions, Pear and Blue Cheese
    27 of 30 Monkey Bread with Honey-Bourbon Sauce

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