Cheesy Italian Bread

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 2 1/2 cups flour
• flour, to dust countertop
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 cup hot water
• 1.5 (1/3 ounce) packets fast rising yeast
• 2 cups shredded cheese (i usually use a colby-jack blend... but really any cheese works)
• italian dressing (i like kraft zesty italian)
• vegetable oil

Recipe

• 1 combine flour, salt, sugar, and yeast in large mixing bowl. mix well.
• 2 combine the hot water into the flour mixture and make sure to scrape the bowl to get up all the flour.
• 3 sprinkle some flour on a clean countertop or large cutting board and knead the bread to thoroughly combine all ingredients. (add enough flour so dough isn't 'too' sticky).
• 4 form into large ball.
• 5 pour a small amount of vegetable oil into clean large mixing bowl (around a tbsp) and place ball of dough in bowl flipping it around to coat with oil.
• 6 place hot damp kitchen towel over bowl (stretching it across to cover bowl) and let sit for 25 minutes.
• 7 preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• 8 grease large cookie sheet or pizza pan and spread dough out evenly.
• 9 pour italian dressing over dough (using spoon to spread it out evenly).
• 10 sprinkle cheese over dough.
• 11 bake at 375 for 20-25 minutes until bread is golden and cheese is bubbly.