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Home » Recipes » Yeast Bread Recipes

Potato Garlic Baguette Recipe

Published: Feb 17, 2014 Last Updated: Aug 10, 2022 by Marye 538 words. | About 3 minutes to read this article.

An artisan baguette that is easy to make and so good you'll be having it a lot. The potato gives the bread a pleasant chewy texture and the garlic is just strong enough to make it interesting.
Total time 5 hours
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A potato garlic baguette is similar to regular French bread but has a slightly chewier texture and the flavor is amazing. Since there is already garlic in it adding garlic butter just shoots it on up to... well you won't have to worry about vampires for weeks.

sliced potato garlic baguette

This dough is slightly sticky and looser than most of the other bread doughs that I have here on Restless Chipotle. It will stick to your hand as you pull it out of the dough like in the images below.

garlic potato bread steps

When you form the baguettes you'll just pull the dough together quickly and make it into a baguette shape. Don't try to roll it out or you'll have quite a mess on your hands. These loaves are  not going to be perfectly rounded — they'll flatten out a little. Don't worry about it because the looseness of the dough is what is going to help the bread to have those big air holes in it. That's a very desirable trait for this type of bread.

sliced potato garlic baguette

Using Potato Water for Potato Garlic Baguette

Potato water is merely the water that you would normally pour off the potatoes you cooked for dinner. It is a secret weapon when it comes to creating huge, fluffy loaves of bread because the starchy water helps the yeast to rise and it helps improve the texture of the bread. My bread loaves always rise much higher when I use it.

I don't add salt to the water when boiling the potatoes because I don't want the bread to be too salty. You can keep the potato water in the fridge for several days — just warm it to a lukewarm temperature before using.

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sliced potato garlic baguette
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Potato Garlic Baguette Recipe

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An artisan baguette that is easy to make and so good you'll be having it a lot. The potato gives the bread a pleasant chewy texture and the garlic is just strong enough to make it interesting.
Prep Time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 5 hours
Servings:30 slices
Calories:
Author:Marye Audet-White
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Ingredients

  • 1 head of garlic
  • 3 cups lukewarm potato water
  • Pinch of granulated ginger
  • 2 yeast, (1 1 /2 tablespoons)
  • 1 ½ tablespoons kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 cup mashed potatoes
  • 1 teaspoon granulated garlic
  • 5 ½ to 6 ½ cups bread flour

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Instructions

  • Mix the yeast, ginger, sugar, water, 2 cups of the flour in a large bowl.
  • Set aside and let rise for about an hour..
  • Meanwhile, roast the garlic by wrapping it in aluminum foil and baking it for 30 minutes in a 400F oven.
  • Cool.
  • Cut the top from the garlic and squeeze the softened garlic out into a small bowl.
  • Mash it completely – you should have about 2 tablespoons.
  • Stir the dough down and add the garlic, salt, mashed potato, and granulated garlic.
  • Place in the bowl of a mixer with the bread hook attached.
  • Mix in enough of the remaining flour to make a slightly sticky dough and knead according to manufacturer's instructions - or about 5 minutes.
  • Cover bowl with a loose towel and let it rise for 2 ½ hours.
  • Punch down.
  • Divide into three loaves.
  • Shape into baguettes.
  • Sprinkle a cookie sheet with cornmeal and add the loaves to the sheet.
  • Let loaves rise 30 minutes.
  • Preheat the oven to 450F degrees.
  • Slash the top of the loaves.
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until loaf sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.
  • Let cool before slicing.

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    1. Carol Cevas

      March 15, 2023 at 9:14 am

      5 stars
      I used to make bread when I lived at a high elevation. I was very good at it. Since I moved to the coast, my loaves could have been used as footballs.
      This recipe solved everything! It's all about the potato water and the mashed potato.
      The large crumb is so perfect. It's soft and chewy. And the crust is just right.
      I have been able to adapt this recipe for focaccia and even pizza crust.
      BTW, I don't have baquette pans. What I did was rolled leftover heavy foil pans into rolls so that they tightly fit into a 2" deep pan, and made sections with them. In went the baguette dough and they turned out perfectly.....The foil rolls can be used over and over again.
      Thanks!

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    2. Debbie

      October 12, 2020 at 1:42 pm

      Why put the dough in a mixing bowl with a dough hook if you aren't going to knead it?

      Reply
      • Marye

        October 16, 2020 at 11:06 am

        That was an oversight on my part. It's fixed now.

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