Tricolor Christmas Bread

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By Jim Webster

This vacation breadstuff is simply a festive premix flavored with sun-dried tomatoes, achromatic olives and pesto, with each portion showing disconnected a cross-section of colors.

The archetypal look calls for this to marque a azygous loaf, and if you person a large capable cookware – and request a seven-pound loaf of breadstuff – spell for it. We’ve divided it into 2 loaves here, but dividing it into 4 loaves results successful much manageable finished products that are suitable for sharing.

The pesto, tapenade and herb paste tin beryllium made a time successful beforehand and refrigerated. The dough requires a full of 2 hours’ rising time. The breadstuff is champion served wrong a time oregon two. The cooled loaves tin beryllium frozen for up to 3 months.

Adapted from “Emeril’s Creole Christmas,” by Emeril Lagasse and Marcelle Bienvenu (Morrow, 1997).

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2 3 1/2-pound loaves

For the herb paste (makes 5 ounces)

1/4 cupful full sun-dried tomatoes

For the herb paste

3 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons chopped garlic
1/2 spoon kosher salt
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the pesto

1 cupful loosely packed caller basil leaves
2 tablespoons conifer nuts
1/2 spoon chopped garlic
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/4 spoon salt
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

For the tapenade

4 ounces (3/4 cup) pitted Kalamata olives
1 anchovy fillet
2 teaspoons chopped garlic
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper

For the doughs

3/4 ounce (3 azygous packets) progressive adust yeast
3 tablespoons sugar
3 cups lukewarm h2o (about 110 degrees)
3 teaspoons kosher salt
10 1/2 cups flour, preferably bleached/all-purpose
3 teaspoons rootlike oil, for the enactment bowls

For assembly

Flour, for the enactment surface
1 ample egg, beaten
Kosher salt
Coarsely crushed achromatic pepper

Nutritional Facts

Per portion (based connected 72)

Calories
90
Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
15 g
Sodium
130 mg
Protein
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Emeril’s Creole Christmas,” by Emeril Lagasse and Marcelle Bienvenu (Morrow, 1997).

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published December 10, 2013

Updated March 14, 2026