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Easy Homemade Bread Bowl Recipe

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With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!

With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!Great Value Broccoli Cheddar Soup makes a great filling for this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe which is made with only a handful of ingredients. These Easy Homemade Bread Bowls are perfect for when you want to indulge at home, and not break the bank at a restaurant. Pair this delicious homemade bread bowl with some hearty soup, and you have a winning meal! Today’s post is sponsored, but as always all opinions are my own. 

With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!

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With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!

How to make the Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe:

  • Using a stand mixer or large mixing bowl, add warm water and sprinkle in yeast. Let the yeast dissolve for a few minutes until yeast becomes foamy (You only have to do this step if you are using regular yeast, not fast acting. If you are using fast acting, just sprinkle it in the water and move to next step, no waiting needed). Add butter, sugar, and salt, then mix well.
  • On the lowest speed, slowly add the flour until completely combined. Remove paddle attachment and insert the dough hook. On a medium/high setting, ‘knead’ the dough for 4-5 minutes or until smooth. Place the dough into an oiled bowl, then cover with a damp kitchen towel. Let the bread sit for 45 minutes in a warm dry place.
  • Remove the towel and punch the dough down in the center. Remove from the bowl and cut into 6 even sections. Form each section into a small ball. Place the dough balls on a lightly greased baking sheet, a few inches apart. Cover loosely with damp towel, and allow to rise again for 40 minutes.
  • Brush an egg wash all over the tops and sides of the bread bowls, then sprinkle with your favorite herbs. I like oregano and thyme.
  • Place in a preheated (400 degrees) oven, and bake for 15 minutes. Remove and brush again with the egg wash. Place back in oven and bake 10-15 additional minutes, or until tops are browned and slightly crisped. Remove and cool on a wire rack.

How to make Great Value Broccoli Cheddar Soup:

You have a few different options on how to cook the soups!

  • On the stove top: Remove container from outside packaging. Place sealed plastic bag with soup into a pot of boiling water. After a few minutes, remove and serve!
  • In the microwave: Remove container from outside packaging, but keep plastic bag in the black plastic container. Microwave in bag, then pour soup into black container. Microwave a few minutes more until cooked through.

*For specific times, see package instructions.

With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!

Once the bread bowls have cooled off, you can cut a pocket out of the top center, and then pour the Broccoli Cheddar Soup into the bread bowl. I love how the Great Value Broccoli Cheddar Soup comes with croutons to add to the top, too! The broccoli cheddar soup is made with broccoli florets and carrots blended with whole milk, cheese and seasonings, then slow cooked to obtain a perfect balance of tender broccoli and a velvety smooth cheddar cheese sauce- it’s delicious!

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4.97 from 26 votes
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Easy Homemade Bread Bowl Recipe
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
rising time
1 hr 30 mins
Total Time
45 mins
 

With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!

Servings: 6 bread bowls
Ingredients
  • 2 cups warm water, + 4 TBS water
  • 2 packages active dry yeast or 4 1/2 tsp fast acting yeast
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted
  • 2 TBS granulated sugar
  • 3 tsp salt
  • 6 1/2 cups bread flour
  • 1 egg white
Instructions
  1. Using a stand mixer or large mixing bowl, add warm water and sprinkle in yeast. Let dissolve for a few minutes until yeast becomes foamy (You only have to do this step if you are using regular yeast, not fast acting. If you are using fast acting, just sprinkle it in the water and move to next step, no waiting needed).
  2. Add melted butter, sugar and salt and mix until combined. Gradually add flour.
  3. Once combined, allow your mixer to knead the dough for about 5 minutes (you could do this by hand if you weren't using a mixer).
  4. Lightly oil a large bowl, place the dough in the bowl and turn to coat with oil. Cover with a damp cloth and let rise in a warm place until doubled in volume, about 40 minutes.
  5. Punch dough down, and divide into 6 equal portions. Shape each portion into a 4 inch round loaf. Place loaves on lightly greased baking sheets sprinkled with cornmeal. Cover with damp towel and let rise in a warm place, free from drafts, until doubled in bulk, about 35 minutes.
  6. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. In a small bowl, beat together egg white and 1 tablespoon water; lightly brush the loaves with half of this egg wash. Sprinkle with any seasonings you may like (I use thyme and oregano).
  7. Bake in preheated oven (400 degrees F) for 15 minutes, remove, and brush with remaining egg mixture, and bake 10 to 15 more minutes or until golden. Cool on wire racks.
  8. To make bowls: Cut a 1/2 inch thick slice from top of each loaf; scoop out centers, leaving 3/4-inch-thick shells. Fill bread bowls with hot soup and serve immediately.

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With only a handful of ingredients, this Easy Homemade Bread Bowl recipe is simple, tasty, and freezes well. Fill with your favorite soup, like Broccoli Cheddar, and dinner is served!

 

This is a sponsored conversation written by me. The opinions and text are all mine.

This is a sponsored conversation written by me. The opinions and text are all mine.

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  2. I was just talking to my husband about trying my hand at making these today! I cant wait to try this out!

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    • Thanks so much, Cindy! They really are delicious and it’s the perfect time of the year for some comforting bread bowls!

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  7. Pinned it to my Bread board. I will certainly give this a try. Bread bowls, soups, stews, and chili all go great with this winter weather!

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  8. Love these bread bowls, they look wonderful! I love making bread too but need to try making these cute bread bowls and soup, thanks for sharing Allyson 🙂

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  12. I’ve always bought bread bowls but haven’t ever tried making them at home. Thank you for sharing! Can’t wait to make them and try that broccoli and cheese soup!

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  17. 5 stars
    Wow does this ever look good! I love Tomato Basil, and it would be so good with BLT sandwiches! I love Great Value, it is my favorite brand better than name brands for both quality and price!

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  18. I love a good carb vessel! I really think you nailed it with broccoli cheddar soup since that’s obviously the best soup

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  19. 5 stars
    My all time favorite soup is French onion but broccoli cheese is a close second! I serve both with a big piece of crusty bread, yum! I’ll have to give these bread bowls a try!

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  22. Wow! This looks amazing! Unfortunately these soups aren’t available in my area but both the broccoli one and the tomato one you mentioned sound super yummy. I will have to keep my eyes open. In the meantime I would fill my bread bowl with some good old fashioned potato soup!

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  23. 5 stars
    I love broccoli and cheddar so much. I could eat it all winter long. I’m going tho have to try to make these bread bowls. Will have to see if I can make it gluten free I miss bread bowls.

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  25. 5 stars
    My favorite soup is my grandmother’s potato soup. But I’m going to try the broccoli cheddar for sure!

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  26. This looks delicious! I think I’d have a tough time choosing between Great Value’s loaded baked potato soup and broccoli cheddar soup, so I’d need to make two.

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  32. There’s a great value chicken and dumpling soup that is the BEST. I am in love with chicken and dumpling anything and it’s so much cheaper than the name brand.

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  40. Those bread bowls look amazing. I think I’ll try them and fill with my favorite split pea with ham soup.

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  43. 5 stars
    Thank you for this recipe! I just made this and it was perfect! Super easy to follow and turned out delicious! I think bread bowls will be a new thing for us now! Thanks again!

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  44. I’m in the process of making these to go with my outback clam chowder. I can tell the dough is more sense than my regular bread recipe, but I’m going that is too help it hold its shape while in the oven. I can’t wait to see the end result!

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  45. 5 stars
    This was such an easy bread bowl. I would recommend having a stand mixer, though, or some admirable upper body strength! The dough is a stiff dough, but it rises beautifully. If you have a dehydrator, take out all the shelves and turn it to 110 degrees and proof your dough in it. Flawless. The outside of the bowl had that nice hard crust, while the inside was beautifully soft. I will make these again and again!

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  47. 4 stars
    Although this recipe made nice loaves, they are so small! To have enough soup I’d need to refill the bowls. The bread itself tastes pretty good and is light, but next time I would make three or four bowls out of the dough instead of six

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    • You can feel free to make them into however many bowls you’d like! I like to keep it in one serving portions otherwise I can’t control myself! Enjoy!

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  48. 5 stars
    I made these and they turn out perfect. Making them again today. I shared 2 with my sister and frooze 2 and had the broccoli cheese soup in the other 2. They do freeze beautyfully. Thanks for sharing.

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