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Goat Cheese Bacon and Olive Quick Bread for Savory Meals and Holidays

Olive Quick Bread is what it reads. You can really make it within an hour to prepare your dinner or even a delicious weekend breakfast of brunch. This bread recipe calls for no yeast and takes a no-knead approach.

Just put together all the ingredients, mix them well and you are ready to bake one of your most memorable homemade breads ever.

Goat Cheese Bacon Olive Quick Bread Recipe

The prep work to make this bread happen takes your effort to collect all the ingredients and cook the bacon before you mix it into the dough.

Goat Cheese Recipes Add Flavor and Texture

I love adding goat cheese to my baking recipes. It is much healthier than cow’s milk cheese. Goat cheese contains more vitamins and minerals. Yes, you will find more Vitamin D and Vitamin K in goat milk than in cow’s!

Women would be really interested in getting more Calcium to strengthen their bones and help prevent osteoporosis from their food on the daily basis. Guess what, goat cheese has more calcium that cow’s milk cheese.

Looking for more unique bread recipes? Try this Pear Rosemary Flatbread recipe.

In addition to so many health benefits, goat cheese adds lemony flavor and smooth texture to the breads and baked goods.

Goat Cheese Bread with Olives and Bacon

Skin Benefits from Goat Cheese

On a quick note, I would like to add incredible benefits we get eating goat cheese. It contains selenium, a powerful antioxidant that protects our skin from the damaging sun rays. When we have protection inside-out, our skin stays wrinkle-free much longer in our life. Goat cheese contains 27% more selenium than its counterpart the cow cheese.

Adding goat cheese to other foods, we are getting more Vitamin B6 (25% more than in cow cheese) and Vitamin A (47% more than in cow cheese).

Vitamin B6 is a required component in blood cell production and protein metabolism. It assists in the growth and repair of skin cells.

Vitamin A is really crucial in normalizing the appearance of the skin, especially in its pigmentation. It assists in maintaining a healthy dermis and epidermis – the top two layers of our skin.

PIN For Your Next Memorable Meal!

Just imagine having a slice of an Olive Quick Bread with your favorite soup, salad or a dip. This is one of the favorite recipes we make every Fall and winter. My Thanksgiving dinner includes a couple of different bread recipes that our guests love to use with their meal.

Another idea for this delicious quick bread recipe is to use it as an appetizer and a teaser before your grand Thanksgiving dinner arrives. Your visiting family, friends would appreciate this warm loaf of olive bread with unique additional ingredients like goat cheese and bacon in it.

Quick Olive Bread Recipe, goat cheese, olives

Goat Cheese Bacon and Olive Quick Bread

Dinner, lunch or breakfast could be so much more savory with an Olive Quick Bread. Add more flavor to your dinners and Holiday celebrations!

  • loaf pan
  • 6 slices thick-cut bacon, cut crosswise into 1/2 inch stripes
  • 1/5 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp Cayenne pepper
  • 1/4 tsp Kosher salt
  • 4 large eggs, room temperature
  • 3 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 6 oz fresh goat cheese, crumbled
  • 1-⅓ cups Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, freshly grated
  • ½ cups Kalamata olives, pitted, halved
  • 2 scallions, thinly sliced
  • 1 red Serrano chile, seeded and minced
  • 2 tsp Thyme leaves, minced

Step 1

  1. Preheat the oven to 350F.

  2. Coat a 9-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.

  3. Line the bottom with parchment paper.

  4. 5. In a skillet, cook the bacon over moderate heat until crisp, about 8 mins.

  5. 6. Drain cooked bacon on paper towels.

Step 2

  1. In a bowl, whisk the flour with the baking powder, cayenne and salt.

  2. In another bowl, whisk the eggs with the buttermilk, olive oil and mustard.

  3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and stir in the egg mixture until just combines.

  4. Fold in the goat cheese, Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, olives, bacon, scallions, chile and thyme.

  5. 12. Scrape the batter into the prepared loaf pan and smooth the surface.

Step 3

  1. 14. Bake the bread until golden on top and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 35-40 mins.

  2. 15. Let cool for 15 minutes, if desired, then run a knife around the loaf to loosen it from the pan.

  3. Invert onto a plate and let cool completely.

  4. 17. Cut the loaf into thick slices and serve.

    Personally, I love this bread when it is warm, so I don't wait for it to cool down a lot.

The bread can be wrapped well in plastic wrap and refrigerated for 1 week.

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Goat Cheese and Olive Quick Bread

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42 Comments

  2. You had me goat cheese, bacon, and olives! Combined in a quick bread? It sounds so good! I can’t wait to try this recipe.

    1. Scarlet,
      Every now and then, I like to combine ingredients that are usually not together. It gives us new tastes to explore.

  3. I love goat cheese and I learned something new from your post today! Great to know it’s good for the skin too!

    1. Jocelyn,
      I am trying to put together the meals that are super good for our skin and overall health.
      What I found is that eating from the variety of sources is the way to go to give our body what it needs. Plus some supplementation.

  6. My husband would enjoy this bread. The bacon is the part that he would like

  7. This is such a unique quick bread recipe. I love savory stuff so this really appeals to me.

  8. This sounds amazing. I’ve been wanting to make some bread lately too. I think I’ll have to give this one a try.

  10. That bread looks absolutely amazing! I love the flavor combination here. I can’t wait to make this. It’s going to be so good.

  12. Oooooo … this seems like one bread my hubby and kids would LOVE! Thanks for this food idea. =0)

    1. Clare,
      Actually, you are so accurate about the AM Coffee and this Olive Quick Bread!
      I love it this way! It would seem not to be suitable, but the flavors blend really nice with each other.
      Worth a try.

  15. The combination is great..! Goat cheese is my favorite, I bet it tastes great with bacon.. Yum yum..!

  16. I have a small roll of goat cheese that I bought a few days ago and this seems an excellent way to use it. I can see a baking spree happening this weekend.

  19. That looks great, goat cheese sounds so delicious with bacon.. I think it will be one of my favorite bread.

  20. This goat cheese bacon and olive quick bread seems easy to make and delicious. It’s prefect for the holidays. Love all the health benefits of the goat cheese.

  21. I love goat cheese! I ate some when I was in high school and fell in love. I have to see if Japan has goat cheese because it is super rare here.

  22. Absolutely love goat cheese, and never would have thought to add it to a bread recipe! Can’t wait to give it a try!

  24. I would love to try this bread, it looks perfect for moping up pasta, or teaming with a salad.

  25. My daughter is such a picky eater. But her go-to is definitely bread! I need to try making this with her to expose her to some new flavors.

  26. This is such a great find, you had me once I saw the bacon in the title. Anything with bacon is typically very good. I would love to give this bread a try it looks great.

  27. WOW!!! This goat cheese bacon olive quick bread looks SO yummy! I bet I could make this too.

  28. I have been dying to try goat cheese but it’s so expensive in my country. I will bookmark this recipe for the future.

    1. Oh, Shevoneese,
      Goat cheese is a bit more expensive here, in the US. But for the bread, it is not too much.
      But the taste really goes well with olives.

  29. I always say I will try anything once. I have never had goat cheese before and I know I like the rest. I will let you know how it works out

    1. MARLENE,
      I do, too. I want to try things I’ve never done at least once, when it comes to food.

  30. I love all of the ingredients in your Goat Cheese Bacon & Olive Bread. The addition of cayenne is very unique! I enjoy baking and I’d love to give this recipe a try this weekend.

    1. Denay,
      I baked this recipe while being in this covid quarantine. And it really tasted so good!
      Have you had a chance to bake it?

  32. You had me at Bacon!! This looks truly delicious and I can’t wait to try this recipe out with the family!

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