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Bread Machine Easy Tomato Basil Bread

Name: Bread Machine Easy Tomato Basil Bread
Ingredients: 2 cups tomato-basil flavored spaghetti sauce; 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese; 3 to 4 cups bread flour (see note); 1 (0.25oz) package (7g) or 2 1/4 teaspoons Red Star Active Dry Yeast

Imagine this bread with a vegetable pasta salad or as a grilled pepperoni and cheese sandwich!

Yield 1 loaf

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Ingredients

2 cups tomato-basil flavored spaghetti sauce
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese
3 to 4 cups bread flour (see note)
1 (0.25oz) package (7g) or 2 1/4 teaspoons Red Star Active Dry Yeast

Instructions

Place spaghetti sauce, Parmesan cheese, 3 cups bread flour and yeast in bread pan. Select basic or white bread cycle and start machine. Keeping the lid of the machine open, gradually add enough of the additional bread flour (1 tablespoon at a time) until mixture forms a smooth, soft ball. Close lid. When baking is complete, remove bread from machine as soon as possible. Cool on rack.

Notes

Get Traditional Bread Making Method here.

Amount of bread flour will vary with each brand of spaghetti sauce.

Photo by The Yooper Girl.

Review & Comments

Dorothy | 10/24/2024 Reply

Do I need to warm the spaghetti sauce like I would with milk or water or just at room temperature?

Red Star Yeast | 10/24/2024 Reply

Hi Dorothy,

Room temperature is good for this recipe.

Happy Baking!

Brian Reynolds | 8/3/2024 Reply

This is an excellent recipe. I followed it exactly, using “Rao’s Homemade Tomato Basil Sauce”, with an ingredients list of “Italian Whole Peeled Tomatoes, Olive Oil, Onions, Basil, Salt, Garlic, Black Pepper, Oregano.” I added the sauce to the machine, then blended together the yeast and 360 grams (3 cups) of King Arthur Bread Flour and added it to the machine and turned it on at the “2 lb” setting. I slowly added flour for the next couple of minutes; I added pretty much the full 4th cup. The resulting loaf was soft and moist. I’ve been searching for an easy copycat recipe of Panera’s tomato basil bread, and this isn’t it–at least, not with the sauce I used, the flavor was very different–but it’s delicious regardless. My daughter immediately made a grilled cheese sandwich with it and said it was one of the best she’s ever had.

June | 4/14/2024 Reply

Why is there no sugar in this recipe? Doesn’t yeast need sugar to grow?

Red Star Yeast | 4/15/2024 Reply

Hi June – In no-sugar added doughs (common for pizza, and French/Italian breads), the yeast will break down the starch in the flour into sugar.

Happy baking!

Johnia | 2/27/2023 Reply

Can you use a stand mixer

Red Star Yeast | 2/27/2023 Reply

Hi Johnia – Yes you can! Follow the directions here: https://redstaryeast.com/recipes/easy-tomato-basil-bread/, just use the stand mixer to knead instead of kneading by hand.
Happy baking!

Deb Jackman | 4/11/2022 Reply

What size loaf does the Bread Machine Easy Tomato Basil loaf make? I have a 1 1/2 lb bread machine.

Red Star Yeast | 4/28/2022 Reply

Hi Deb – Typically a 1 1/2-lb. machine will hold 3 cups of flour, and a 2-lb. machine will hold 4 cups. Check your bread machine manual to see how much flour it can hold. You could adjust to 3/4ths of the recipe if needed: 1 3/4 cups sauce, 1 3/4 tablespoon Parmesan cheese, 2 1/2 to 3 cups bread flour, and still use 1 packet of active dry yeast.
Happy baking!

Shelley Tracey | 7/22/2024 Reply

My bread machine wants to know what size loaf I’m making when I turn it on. Do I set it for 1 1/2 or 2 pounds?

Red Star Yeast | 7/24/2024

Hi Shelley,

I would set it for a 2 lb loaf.