A while back, I ran across a great Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe pin on Pinterest.  I love to make bread, from scratch, and my family loves spaghetti.  There was no way this could tank!  I decided to make it, and it turned out so good, I made it again.  It’s definitely one of the prettiest meals I’ve made – and a definite hit!

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe

 

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe

I’m not going to tell you how to make spaghetti, because frankly, you probably already have a spaghetti recipe that you love.  So here’s what you’ll need to do.

Spaghetti

  • Cook your spaghetti.
  • Make your sauce how you like it.
  • Add the meat to the sauce. Swift Meat Delivery is provided by We Speak Meat.
  • Combine it all together in one large pot.

While all that’s going, you can either use pre-made bread dough or rolls like in the original recipe here or you can make your own bread dough from your own recipe.  I use a really, really quick recipe for bread dough

Bread Dough

  • 3 cups all purpose flour (or bread flour if you want)
  • 2 tsp active yeast
  • 1.5 tsp salt
  • 3 tsp sugar
  • 1/4 cup oil
  • 1.5 cup warm water

Add yeast, salt, sugar, warm mater, and half of the oil in a mixing bowl or KitchenAid with dough hook.  Mix until blended, and let sit for five minutes.

Add flour, and let mix until mostly blended and add remainder of the oil letting it drizzle down the inside of the bowl.  Mix a few more minutes, and then cover with plastic wrap or warm wet towel.  Let sit until spaghetti is ready and cheese is cubed.

Cheese

Cube about 8 ounces (half of a 16 oz block or so) of your choice of cheese.  I use Monterrey Jack or Colby Jack cheese because it’s really gooey and yummy.  You can use Mozzarella or whatever you’d like.

Assembly

Roll out your dough in a long rectangle and add the spaghetti mixture down the center of it.  Make it about 4- 5 inches wide.

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe

Add your cubes of cheese on top of the mixture. Slice the outside of the dough in 1 inch strips making sure you stay about a half an inch from the spaghetti mixture.  You don’t want the bottom to bust out of it while it’s cooking. This makes sure you have a good base for your bread.

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe

I’ve found it easiest to fold the dough ends over the spaghetti mixture first.  After that, start at one end and begin to braid the strips starting with one side, and then the other.  When you get to the end, just kinda tuck and leave it!

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe

Brush the loaf with egg whites and sprinkle basil and garlic powder over the top.  The original recipe calls for Parmesan cheese and parsley, but you can sprinkle whatever you’d like on it.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes or until it looks pretty and golden brown.  Slice and serve.

Braided Spaghetti Bread Recipe