Garlic & Cheese Black Bean Pull Apart Bread/Black Bean Monkey Bread

Baking bread at home is definitely one of my favourite pass time when i stay home especially during the week ends. I love to experiment in my kitchen if i feel like feeding my kids with healthy ingredients in their diet. One among those recent experiment is this eggless Black bean monkey bread aka black bean pull apart bread. Monkey bread consists of several pieces of soft bread either filled with a stuffing or coated with spice powders like cinnamon, garlic-butter mixture etc.Usually monkey bread is prepared as a sweet pastry though many savoury versions do exists.This bread is traditionally served hot so that the baked pieces can be easily torn away with the fingers and eaten by hand.

You may wonder black bean in bread, yes i used cooked black bean puree while kneading the bread dough which gives an excellent soft texture and mild dull colour to the dough. Apart from it, this bread tastes seriously fabulous as i used a mix of herbs to flavor along with minced garlic cloves. This bread is completely egg free, butter free but loaded with cheese, obviously this bread is not vegan. Whoever loves herbs,cheese and garlic in their bread will definitely go crazy if they tastes a bite of this bread. Simple to prepare, this bread will definitely please everyone's tastebuds. Am posting this incredible black bean pull apart bread for this week's blogging marathon as am running a month of blogging marathon with 5 Ingredients for 5 Weeks. And this week's ingredient is Dry black beans, hope you guys are enjoying all my posts with this healthy black beans.

4cups All purpose flour
1cup Warm water
1/2cup Black bean puree
1tbsp Instant yeast
2tbsp Olive oil (for dough)
1/2cup Olive oil
1tbsp Sugar
2tbsp Mixed dry herbs
2tbsp Minced garlic cloves
1tsp Salt
Grated cheese (as per need)

In a large bowl, take the flour,instant yeast, salt,oil and sugar, add the luke warm water, black bean puree gradually and knead everything as a smooth dough.

Drop the dough onto a floured surface, knead until smooth and elastic for about 5minutes. Arrange dough in a greased bowl and let it sit in a warm place.

Take a bundt pan or a round pan, grease it. Punch down the dough, divide them into 25-30 small tiny balls.

Take the half a cup of olive oil, mixed dry herbs, minced garlic cloves in a bowl.

Put each ball to the olive oil-garlic mixture to get well coated with the herbs.

Sprinkle some cheese to the pan and drop them immediately to the already prepared bundt pan. Keep in warm place for half an hour.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Keep the pan in the middle of the rack, sprinkle some cheese and bake for 25-30minutes until the crust turns golden brown

Once they get baked,keep aside for few minutes.

Turn the bread to a plate, pull a bread and enjoy.

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