Cheese and bacon bread

Recipe's preparation

1. Place water, yeast and sugar into bowl. set to 37 deg, 1 min 30 speed 2.

2. Turn Thermomix off and leave yeast to start fermenting over 10-15 mins. This will ensure a good rise for the dough.

3. Add flour, salt, bread enhancer and oil and mix speed 3 for 20 seconds. Increase to speed 6 for another 20 seconds. Scrape down sides of bowl and mix for 20 seconds speed 6. At this point the dough will resemble crumbs and not fully formed. Carefully pull the dough out of the bowl minding the blades and form into a round ball and squeeze together. Do not be alarmed if it is too sticky or dry. Push the dough ball back into the TM bowl and set the TM to locked lid, 8 minutes on timer and then knead function "Dough mode"

5. Once kneaded, the dough should be soft and elastically. If too dry add a tablespoon of water and the same amount of flour if too wet. Oil a large bowl, roll the dough in oiled bowl and let sit in a warm place such as the oven recently heated to 50deg and turned off. Place glad wrap over the bowl to increase humidity. You will need at least an hour to double in size.

5. Whilst waiting for the dough to rise, chop bacon into 1.5cm cubes. Fry gently in oil free pan til cooked through but not crispy, remove from heat into a bowl.

6. Once dough has doubled, flour a surface and turn dough out. Gently punch down the dough to release gas. Place all of the bacon and 1 cup to 1.5 cups of cheese over dough. Fold corners of dough in and knead manually for about 30 seconds until the bacon and cheese is well incorporated throughout the dough. Take the time to do this as filling can make it difficult.

7. Form and place into a dough tin, 1 large or 2 small tins.. this bread rises a lot in the oven. Leave in warm place for another hour or until it has doubled approximately in size.

8. Sprinkle a little water on top of dough and gently cover with remaining cheese.. you can add more than half a cup for a nicer cripsy cheesy crust.

9. Place in cold oven with a tray placed at the bottom of the oven, pour boiling hot water into the tray to create steam.

10. Turn oven to 200deg fan forced and start a timer for 30 minutes. Once timer is up remove bread from tin, place back in oven for 2 minutes. Now you have delicious cheesy bacony bread.. yum!!

Note: If your oven is slow to heat up you may need to add an extra 5 minutes to initial cooking time.