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Simple Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread

 ·  ☕ 7 min read  ·  ✍️ Laura Cannon

Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, focaccia croque monsieur bread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread is something that I have loved my entire life.

Put all the bread dough ingredients into a bread machine and start the "dough" program. Put the yeast in the specified location. Leave the bread machine do all the work until the first rising is complete. Croque Monsieur On The Grill is ideal for those nights when you don't want something huge and heavy but still want to eat a little gourmet-like.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook focaccia croque monsieur bread using 15 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread:
  1. Prepare 200 grams or French bread flour or all-purpose bread flour (Lys d'Or brand recommended), or substitute with bread and cake flour
  2. Get 5 grams Sugar
  3. Take 4 grams Salt
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp Skim milk powder
  5. Prepare 20 grams Virgin olive oil
  6. Make ready 120 ml Water
  7. Make ready 3 grams Instant Dry Yeast
  8. Take For the filling:
  9. Get 1 Bechamel sauce
  10. Prepare 4 to 8 slices Easy melt sliced cheese (see Hints)
  11. Get 4 slice Ham
  12. Get To finish
  13. Prepare 1 Extra virgin olive oil
  14. Take 1 Krazy Salt
  15. Take 1 Dried parsley

The surface is painted with piquant Dijon mustard and dolloped generously with creamy ricotta to finish. In a medium-sized saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Whisk in flour until fully incorporated. Using large spatula or flexible bench scraper, fold dough inside bowl a couple of times to deflate.

Instructions to make Focaccia Croque Monsieur Bread:
  1. Make the bechamel sauce, and let it cool.
  2. Put all the bread dough ingredients into a bread machine and start the "dough" program. Put the yeast in the specified location. Leave the bread machine do all the work until the first rising is complete.
  3. When the dough is done, take it out, deflate and divide into 4 pieces. Round off each piece, and cover with a tightly wrung moistened kitchen towel. Leave to rest for 15 minutes.
  4. Roll the dough out into a square, spread the middle with bechame sauce, and top with a slice each of ham and cheese folded in half. Bring the opposing corners of the dough together as shown.
  5. Bring all 4 corners of the dough together, and pinch to seal the seams.
  6. Place the 4 pieces of dough on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Setting your oven to the bread-rising setting, leave the dough to rise at 35 °C for 35-40 minutes (2nd rising).
  7. When the dough has risen, start preheating the oven to 210 °C. While waiting, brush the tops of the bread with olive oil and make several indentations in them using your fingers or the thick end of a chopstick.
  8. Brush a little more olive oil on the dough so that some of it pools in the indentations. Sprinkle with Krazy Salt and parsley to finish.
  9. Lower the oven temperature to 200°C and bake for 15 minutes. Adjust the temperature and baking time depending on your oven. If it looks like the bread is browning too fast, cover with a sheet of foil.
  10. I recommend eating these piping hot fresh out of the oven. I added skim milk powder to the dough to make it more tender, but they're also good cold.
  11. You can warm these up in a toaster oven after they've turned cold to revive the soft, fluffy texture.
  12. I used this instant bechamel sauce mix that you can make by just adding milk.
  13. The dough gets flattened when you make the indentations, so I give this a shorter 2nd rising than for usual bread.

Whisk in flour until fully incorporated. Using large spatula or flexible bench scraper, fold dough inside bowl a couple of times to deflate. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt, sugar, yeast, garlic powder, oregano, thyme, basil and black pepper. Mix in the vegetable oil and water. Liberally sprinkle the top of the focaccia with some coarse sea salt and lightly drizzle a little oil on top.

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Eggs, you may be amazed to find out, are terrific at combating depression. Just be sure that you do not throw away the egg yolk. The egg yolk is the part of the egg that is the most crucial in terms of helping elevate your mood. Eggs, especially the egg yolks, are loaded with B vitamins. B vitamins can really help you improve your mood. This is because they help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that control your mood–run better. Try to eat an egg and feel a lot happier!

Put together a trail mix out of seeds and/or nuts. Peanuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, almonds, pumpkin seeds, etcetera are all terrific for helping to raise your mood. This is because seeds and nuts have a lot of magnesium which boosts your brain’s serotonin levels. Serotonin is a feel-good substance that dictates to the brain how to feel at any given time. The higher your serotonin levels, the more pleasant you will feel. Not only that, nuts, specifically, are a great protein source.

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Grains can be excellent for driving away a bad mood. Barley, quinoa, millet, teff, etc are all wonderful for helping you feel better. These grains fill you up better and that can help improve your moods also. It’s easy to feel depressed when you feel famished! These grains can elevate your mood as it’s not at all hard for your body to digest them. You digest these grains faster than other things which can help promote your blood sugar levels, which, in turn, helps make you feel better, mood wise.

Green tea is actually excellent for your mood. You just knew green tea had to be included in this article, right? Green tea is rich in an amino acid called L-theanine. Studies have shown that this amino acid basically induces brain waves. This helps improve your mental focus while relaxing the rest of your body. You were already aware that green tea could help you be healthier. Now you know that green tea can improve your mood as well!

See, you don’t need to stuff your face with junk food when you wish to feel better! Test out these suggestions instead!

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