This is what you’d get if you crossed cheese bread with avocado.
With pizza.
It’s also vegan, made with whole-wheat flour, and bakes in a skillet with no kneading and no fuss.
The dough comes together in one bowl in minutes, and the bread is ready in 30 minutes. Sold yet?
Last week Gaby invited some San Diego-area bloggers out to lunch to celebrate the release of her new cookbook, Absolutely Avocados
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The recipes are creative and fun, Gaby’s writing is easy-breezy and a joy to read, the photography is stunning, and the book is just wonderful. Two thumbs up.
Reading all those avocado recipes got my wheels turning and I came up with this.
I took advantage of the natural, plant-based healthy fats found in avocado, skipped any butter in the dough, and added just two tablespoons of oil for this big slab ‘ole pizza bread.
Between the seasonings and the cheese, the avocado and sour cream, it’s dense, cheesy, and packed with savory flavor.
Avocado, sour cream, buttermilk, and cheese (use vegan ingredients if desired) keep the bread soft, chewy, and very moist.
It’s so moist that when I placed it on the cooling rack after baking, it released a few tablespoons of water onto the counter. That’s some moist bread. If you’re looking for thin and crispy, dry, light and airy, this isn’t that.
The whole wheat flour adds extra chewiness, texture, and an earthier, nuttier flavor that comes with whole wheat flour.
I love the taste and health benefits of whole wheat flour but it can be tricky to get to rise properly because is has less gluten. However, it’s perfect in dough that it’s okay if it stays flatter and denser, like Whole Wheat Pizza Dough, Honey Whole Wheat Skillet Bread, or this bread.
If you like cheese bread, pizza, or are already an avocado fan, all the bases are covered here.
If you’re not an avocado fan, you’re still in luck because the avocado flavor is hardly noticeable. It adds creaminess, richness, moisture, and softness.
The pizza bread would be great served with a side of guacamole (I ran out of ripe avocados), sour cream, salsa, pico de gallo. And when all else fails, my 6 year old dipped hers in ketchup.
So many bases covered in one recipe. Pizza, bread, cheese, avocado. We were fans.
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30-Minute Cheesy Avocado Skillet Pizza Bread (Whole-Wheat and Vegan)
Ingredients
- 2 medium ripe avocados, mashed (I used Hass)
- 1 ¼ cups buttermilk*, see vegan tip if don’t keep it around
- ¼ cup sour cream or thick Greek yogurt*
- 2 tablespoons canola or vegetable oil
- 2 cups shredded cheese, one 8-ounce package, divided*
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose seasoning blend, or to taste (Mrs. Dash varieties, TJ’s 21 Salute, Lawry’s Seasoning Salt, grill seasoning, etc.)
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- pinch salt, optional and to taste (remember buttermilk is salted, cheese has salt, and many seasoning blends contain salt)
- *To Keep Vegan – Use vegan buttermilk. Make by combining 1 1/4 cups non-dairy milk, or regular milk if vegan considerations aren’t important and you just don’t keep buttermilk on hand with 2 tablespoons white vinegar or lemon juice, let stand for 10 minutes, stir, and use. Use vegan sour cream/yogurt, and vegan cheese to keep recipe vegan.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Spray an enameled 10 1/4-inch cast-iron skillet (or skillet that’s 10 to 12 inches in diameter) with cooking spray, grease a seasoned cast iron skillet, or prepare an oven-safe skillet; set aside. Bread could likely be made in a sprayed 9-by-13-inch pan although I haven’t tested it.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine first four ingredients and whisk to combine.
- Add about 6 ounces of cheese and fold to incorporate.
- Add the remaining ingredients and fold to incorporate. Batter will be lumpy, bumpy, thick, and not at all smooth; don’t overmix and don’t try to make it smooth.
- Turn dough out into skillet. Bake at 400F for 15 minutes.
- Remove skillet from oven, and evenly sprinkle the remaining cheese over the top.
- Lower oven temperature to 350F, return skillet to oven, and bake for 15 minutes, or bread is cooked through and cheese is golden.
- Optionally, place skillet under the broiler for 1 to 2 minutes in order to brown the cheese more. Be very, very careful if you use the broiler so you don’t burn it. It can burn in the span of 1 minute; stand right there and watch it the entire time. I keep the oven door ajar.
- With a large spatula, slide or nudge bread out of skillet and onto a wire rack to cool. Don’t keep it in the skillet because it will continue to cook from the carryover heat. Slice and serve after it’s sufficiently cooled. Serve plain, with guacamole, salsa, sour cream, or your favorite dip. Bread will keep airtight for up to 4 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
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How do you enjoy avocados?
What do you like to make in your skillet?
OMG. Mind Blown.
Totally making it. And not soon enough!
Ha! If your 6 year old is anything like the 6 year old version of me was, ketchup goes on everything ;) This looks delicious…but think I’ll try it without the ketchup.
Lol and yes, ketchup can do no wrong with her. But she’ll do anything from spicy chipotle to balsamic reduction to really sharp Blue cheese…thankfully she eats it all!
Yum, this looks wonderful and I like that it’s veganizable. :-)
It sure is!
I love love love love LOVE the sound of this recipe Averie! My love for avaocados has deepened recently and I just need to try this! Feel free to share this beauty at my link party!
Thanks for being so enthusiastic! I appreciate it!
Yay this! I’m a huge fan of avocados, I could put them on every thing. I love how brilliant this is, girl!
Your use of beer is consistently brilliant!
I can’t wait to try this one Averie! I am really loving avocados right now. So creamy, so rich and delicious, so satisfying! And you’re right, this is a perfect combination of ingredients- sure to please even the pickiest of eaters. This is an impressive recipe too! It looks so easy. I am really craving cookies right now. If you had to pick your favorite cookie recipe on a whim, what would it be?
See this post – they are my 25 faves https://www.averiecooks.com/2013/06/25-cookie-jar-favorite-cookies-and-cookie-cookbook-giveaway.html
And within that post, depending on mood, I have things categorized. I would be thrilled with any of them! From choc chunk to PB to Snickers to White Choc to coconut oil.
I’ve got to try this…soon! I love the Greek Yogurt in it. I can just taste a little tang it adds. Such a great side dish or a meal with a salad! Love it.
PINNING ♥
Thanks for pinning! :)
Yum! I am going to make this for a summer lunch party! Thanks for the recipe- it looks delicious!!
LMK if you try it!
This is such a lovely avocado recipe! I cannot believe it’s done in 30 minutes. Great snack and appetizer, and I’m sure this will be a hit at the party!
Thanks for your sweet comments! And yes, super fast and easy and I know you make lots of savory food & I appreciate you saying it looks good :)
Totally sold! Cheese, avocados and pizza bread. Yep, I will be dreaming about this one. :)
This is definitely something new to try, can’t wait to give it a shot! You’re mixing so many of my favorite worlds together. :)
It’s like the mish-mash of so many worlds, but they all worked together!
Such a creative bread, and I love that you baked it in a skillet!
Avocado and cheese two of my favorites! I thought I was looking at a pizza for a minute.. I love interesting combinations especially when it deals with flour..
It’s one of those things I didn’t know if it would work or not, but it did!
We’ve been on an avocado kick lately . . . just can’t get enough. What a great recipe idea!
This has me drooling and wanting avocado so badly right now! This is the second post I’ve read in 5 minutes with avocado. I’m honestly contemplating a bike ride to the store to get one right now.
I just don’t understand people who don’t like avocado.
Such a beautiful and healthy pizza bread! I love it!