The hedgehog bread, new trend food of Instagram, Pinterest & cie

We see it everywhere: on Instagram, Pinterest and even viral videos on Facebook, Snapshat .... Hedgehog bread (or pull apart bread ), after the sun pie, is the new crush of social networks. Griddled and crisscrossed in the interstices, hedgehog bread makes the foodie community drool with its melting mozzarella. At the aperitif, it produces its small effect too. What do we like in the hedgehog? We can play variations to infinity and vary the pleasures. Stuffed with tomato, pesto, bacon, you can imagine everything.

How to make a hedgehog bread?

  1. It is cut with a tooth knife, forming parallel rows of 2 cm, without going to the bottom: the base must remain attached.
  2. Turn the bread a quarter of a turn and cut it perpendicularly to obtain a regular grid.
  3. One distributes 100 g of pesto (or tapenade ...) in the interstices then one inserts thin slices of mozzarella (300 g approx.).
  4. It is wrapped in aluminum foil like a foil. It is baked for 15 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 ° C. (th.6), then the paper is opened to continue cooking for 10 minutes.

To taste without delay with the fingers, by detaching the tongues of bread.