Pain Cocotte

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    2hrs 45mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    8
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    242
based on 36 ratings

A very simple white bread which has a first prove of one hour thirty minutes before shaping and transferring directly into a pre-heated cast iron casserole pan, where it is baked with the lid on for 50 minutes.

recipe updated Jan 22, 2025

Ingredients

  • Water icon
    Water
    300 g
  • Active dried yeast icon
    Active dried yeast
    5 g
  • Strong white bread flour icon
    Strong white bread flour
    500 g
  • Salt icon
    Salt
    6 g
  • Olive oil icon
    Olive oil
    1 tablespoon
  • Water icon
    Water
    as needed
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    as needed

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Cooling rack
  • kCook icon Cooking Chef XL
  • kCook icon Cooking chef xl bowl
  • kCook icon Casserole dish
  • kCook icon Lightly floured surface

Step preview

  1. Attach the Dough Tool
  2. Add water and active dried yeast to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  3. Lift the Cooking Chef head and fit the heat shield
  4. Heat with splashguard fitted - 3 min, 30°C, Speed Min
  5. Then add strong white bread flour, salt and olive oil to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  6. Mix with splashguard fitted - 1 min, Speed Min
  7. Mix with splashguard fitted until dough forms - 9 min, Speed 1
  8. Transfer the dough onto a work surface
  9. Grease the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  10. Place the dough back into the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
  11. Remove the Dough Tool
  12. Prove with splashguard fitted - 1 hr 30 min, 30°C, Speed OFF
  13. Pre-heat oven - 240°C
  14. Place the casserole dish into the oven to heat up with the lid on
  15. Transfer dough to lightly floured surface
  16. Flatten
  17. Gently pull the edges into the centre
  18. Roll over
  19. Shape into a ball
  20. Place the dough onto a piece of floured baking paper
  21. Brush with water
  22. Sprinkle with all purpose flour
  23. Use a sharp knife or blade to cut a cross on top of the dough
  24. Carefully remove the hot casserole dish from the oven and remove the lid
  25. Transfer dough to casserole dish
  26. Bake - 40 min, 240°C
  27. Remove the lid
  28. Bake - 10 min, 240°C
  29. Remove from oven
  30. Lift out the bread using the baking paper
  31. Carefully transfer the bread back into the oven
  32. Bake until golden brown - 5 min, 240°C
  33. Transfer onto cooling rack and let cool
  34. Serve
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