The best ham bread
It is an excellent recipe that consists of the preparation of a delicious bread filled with smoked ham, pork bacon, raisins, olives and capers. Currently other ingredients such as cream cheese are added. This recipe can be used to prepare a delicious dinner or breakfast and surprise your family.
Next, we will show you each step for the preparation of your recipe, first indicating the ingredients to use.
Ingredients of the ham bread recipe:
Note: We will divide the ingredients into two parts for a better understanding of the recipe.
Ingredients of the dough:
500 grams of wheat flour.
230 milliliters of warm milk.
50 grams of margarine or butter.
7 grams of baking powder.
2 eggs
8 grams of salt.
25 grams of sugar.
Ingredients of the filling:
400 grams of smoked ham.
250 grams of pork bacon.
50 pitted raisins.
90 grams of olives.
Tips for preparing ham bread:
It is important to have the ingredients and utensils available to our hands when making your recipe. You should also have the baking sheets already greased with margarine.
Prepare 1 egg in a container with a tablespoon of powdered milk, this will cause an intense golden color in your breads.
For the filling you can add other ingredients such as cream cheese, tomato paste, yellow cheese among others.
If our bread begins to toast too much at the top, it is recommended that you cover it with a kitchen aluminum foil, because it is important that it cooks exactly 36 minutes.
You can be very creative when preparing the ham bread, adding other fillings, as long as you do not substitute the smoked ham.
If you wish, you can work the dough with a machine, but its duration should be 15 minutes of kneading at a medium speed until it has a homogeneous consistency.
Preparation of the ham bread recipe:
Note: Due to the length of its preparation, we will divide it into three parts.
For the mass:
To prepare the dough, mix the wheat flour with the yeast, salt, and sugar in a large bowl. Then we add the two eggs, the margarine and the warm milk.
We work the dough with the tips of our fingers and the lower part of the palm of our hands, until we get a homogeneous dough.
We place the dough in a container greased with margarine, cover it with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest until it doubles in volume.
Preparation of the ham bread:
We divide the dough in two, roll out our dough to give it a rectangular shape.
We add melted margarine to the surface of our stretched dough.
We start by placing the olives on the side of our dough in an aligned way then we spread the raisins throughout the dough. Next we add the smoked ham and the bacon.
We roll our dough, starting from the side where we place our olives.
Repeat the same procedure with the other remaining dough.
You must open small holes with a fork your two prepared ham loaves, so that it has a better cooking inside.
Cover your two prepared ham loaves with a clean kitchen towel and let it rest for 40 minutes.
Baking the ham bread:
When our bread has an adequate volume, we preheat our oven to a temperature of approximately 200 degrees Celsius.
We introduce our breads and lower the oven temperature to 180 degrees Celsius for 18 minutes.
We remove our loaves and we open other small holes with the fork, we add beaten egg to give it a better color and we introduce.
We wait approximately 18 minutes and remove our loaves from the oven. Let it cool down.
To serve, chop the ham bread into slices 2 to 3 centimeters thick.
Additional recipe recommendations
One of the most important stages is baking, since it cannot be too toasted or raw, it must have a balance between crisp and soft. Much of the softness of the bread comes from its filling, because the fat that expels its filling makes the bread this way.
This delicious recipe can be combined with a delicious juice, wine or cream punch.
In their country of origin Venezuela, they usually accompany it with Halca and chicken salad.
Varieties of ham bread:
Ham bread with yogurt:
It is a delicious preparation, created by Italians, and in fact it is very similar to the traditional one. For its preparation you must have the dough for bread, smoked ham, olives, raisins and yogurt.
Ham bread with puff pastry:
This is the best ham bread recipe which differs from the original recipe by preparing the dough process, because it must be puff pastry.
Vegetarian ham bread:
It is an excellent option for vegetarians. Its filling should contain chard or mushrooms as a substitute for ham.
Relevant characteristics of ham bread:
Its weight is approximately 700 to 900 grams.
It has a thick, wide and long structure.
Its coloration is dark golden.
Its crumb is very soft.
Curiosities of the ham bread:
It is a recipe from the 20th century, and it was born with a simple preparation of bread stuffed with ham in Venezuela. Its previous name was bread with ham, then its name was changed as the years passed.
The first bakery that prepared and commercialized this bread was the “Ramella” bakery located in Caracas. With this they caused a great revolution in the city, then it expanded throughout the country, until quantities of bakeries sold ham bread, especially at Christmas.
Over the years they have improved the ham bread, adding raisins, olives, bacon and capers, currently they add any type of filling, especially those with cheese.
This type of bread enters the traditional Christmas dish in Venezuela, because many people buy or prepare this delicacy, using it as a contour on their plate.
It is the most expensive bread in Venezuela due to its large number of ingredients.