If you want to learn how to make homemade ham bread in an easy and simple way, I leave you this step-by-step recipe to delight your guests at Christmas or New Year's parties for example, which is when this traditional Venezuelan starter is usually cooked.
Ingredients to make homemade ham bread:
700 grams of flour
100 ml milk
3 grams of salt
4 ml oil
5 grams of yeast
180 grams of egg
100 grams of butter
400 grams of smoked or ironed ham
200 grams of bacon
100 grams of olive
100 grams of raisins
100 grams of sugar.
How to make homemade ham bread:
1
In a bowl incorporate all the ingredients of the easy homemade ham bread dough: flour, salt, yeast, egg, oil, sugar, milk (less salt and butter) and knead until everything is combined.
2
Spread the salt on the table and pour the dough over it, knead and incorporate the butter, and knead until the dough is soft and smooth. Let it rest for 20 minutes covered.
3
Remove the dough from the simple homemade ham bread, weigh and cut into two equal parts, and then with a rolling pin form a 41x41 cm square.
4
From top to bottom, start placing the ingredients of the homemade ham bread filling step by step a finger away from the dough: place the olives horizontally next to each other, then the bacon in an interleaved way, follow the ham side by side throughout the dough, and in the middle a horizontal row of raisins.
5
Enroll in the homemade ham bread from top to bottom and leave it to rise for 45 minutes covered in a warm place.
6
Turn the oven to medium temperature, before putting in the oven, varnish the simple homemade ham bread with egg white and carve the dough so that it does not open.
7
Put in the oven and wait for it to brown. The exact temperature to know that it is ready is when introducing the thermometer in the bread gives us 92 degrees.
8
Serve sliced homemade ham bread for Christmas or any other special date.
I hope you like it ☺️