Buffalo Bread

By DonnaBH

Ingredients

• 1 Loaf French bread
• 1/2 Cup mayonnaise
• 1 stick unsalted butter
• 2 Tablespoons sour cream
• 8 ounces low-fat mozzarella, shredded
• 4 ounces blue cheese
• 1/2 Cup hot sauce (Frank’s is the best)
• 1 Cup scallions, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic
• Fresh ground pepper

Details

Adapted from macheesmo.com

Preparation

Step 1

Just mix the mayo, sour cream, butter, scallions, and garlic in a medium bowl. Mush up the butter really well so it’s not all in one big chunk. Not healthy. But GOOD.

After it’s all mixed together, grate the mozzarella and toss that into the mix also.

The Bread. Bread choice is pretty important for this recipe. I went with a big French loaf which is nice and airy, toasts nicely, and will hold up to lots of toppings.

A good French loaf is the only way to go.
The Most Important Part. The key part of this recipe is to toast the bread before you put on toppings. You don’t need to toast it for long, but you want to make sure that it has crisped up a bit on the top and bottom.

I cut my loaf down the middle and then toasted them at 425 degrees for about 5 minutes.

Don’t forget this or your final bread will be kind of soggy which isn’t good at all.

Once your bread is done toasting, turn on your broiler on high to heat up. That’s how you finish the bread.

Then take your hot sauce and spread it all over the bread surface. You want the bread pretty much covered in hot sauce. Frank’s is the perfect hot sauce for this. I don’t recommend anything else.

Then take your topping mixture and spread it evenly over the bread.

The key thing here is to not over fill the bread. Don’t worry about using all the filling, you might have some leftover. Just make sure there’s a nice even layer over the bread. It’s a pretty rich layer so no need to pile it super high.

Don't over do it.

As a final touch, and the thing that makes this all really buffalo is to sprinkle on some blue cheese right on top.

Again, no need to over do it.

Finishing the loaf. To finish this guy off, BROIL the bread on high for about 2-3 minutes until the cheese is just starting to brown and the edges on the bread are good and toasted.

Once it comes out of the broiler, let it rest for a minute and then slice it up into sticks which makes it easier to serve.