Slow Cooker Cheese And Bacon Bread

5 from 3 votes

Slow Cooker Cheese And Bacon Bread is a fluffy bread with bacon topping. Easy ingredients, family friendly, bakery fresh, no knead, no yeast.

Prep Time10

Cook Time2 30

Total Time2 40

Course: Lunch

Cuisine: Western

Keyword: slow cooker bacon and cheese bread

Servings:

Calories: 259kcal

Dough: sift the self-raising flour into a large bowl then add the Greek yogurt and milk. Use a wooden spoon to stir till the flour is consistently mixed in and then set aside.
Topping: add the bacon, dried onion, tomato paste, Italian herbs and cheese to a small bowl and use a spoon to consistently combine.
Slow cooker insert: spray the base and sides of the slow cooker insert with cooking oil. Then measure the length of the slow cooker with baking paper and tear that length from the roll x2. Scrunch the paper in your hand and then use it to line the base of the slow cooker in 2 directions (left to right and top to bottom).
Cook: transfer the dough into the slow cooker and gently push to spread across the base of the baking paper. Then spoon the bacon cheese mixture into the slow cooker and spread it out across the raw dough. Place a clean, dry tea towel over the top of the slow cooker insert and then put the lid on top of this. Cook for 2 hours on high, then remove the lid and cook for a further 30 minutes. Once the cook time is up grab the baking paper up and pull it up and out of the slow cooker.
To serve: sprinkle some freshly chopped parsley over the bread, slice into pieces and serve with butter and or chili jam.

Note 1 - Self raising flour: we do want to sift the flour. This helps to ensure that the texture of the bread will be light and fluffy and not dense.
Note 2 - Greek yogurt: I use full fat Greek yogurt. This is different to plain yogurt. It will be labelled 'Greek yogurt' or 'Greek style yogurt'. It is very thick and creamy.
Note 3 - Milk: I use skim milk. But you can use full cream if you wish to.
Note 4 - Bacon: we use store bought diced bacon for convenience. We don't cook it 1st. We simply add it to the topping mixture and it will cook in the slow cooker. It becomes a little hard and crispy too, it is so good!
Note 5 - Cheese: I use a store bought bag of grated cheese to keep things easy! The combination seen here is a combination of mozzarella cheese, parmesan and cheddar.
Note 6 - Tomato paste: you can double this if you wish to ie make it 4 tablespoons.
Note 7 - Dried onion: this will be in the herbs and spices aisle. It is dried onion flakes which is different to onion powder. It saves time and tears but not peeling and cutting an onion which is also a wet ingredient which has the potential to make the top of the bread soggy.
Note 8 - Italian seasoning: dried Italian herbs or seasoning gives us a flavor boost. You can also use either dried basil, parsley, thyme or oregano if you want to stick to one dried herb or only have individual herbs and not the combination.