Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, sig's plaited fruit bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
sig's Plaited Fruit Bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. sig's Plaited Fruit Bread is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Plaited loaves look fabulous and provide lots of lovely golden crust - perfect for serving with soup. Place the plaited dough onto a floured baking tray, and leave to prove for another hour, until risen again. Plait Bread (Guyanese Style) is a hand kneaded white bread that is soft and buttery.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sig's plaited fruit bread using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make sig's Plaited Fruit Bread:
- Prepare plaited bread
- Make ready 1 tbsp activ dry yeast
- Get 65 ml each of lukewarm water and lukewarm milk
- Make ready 55 grams caster sugar (extra fine sugar)
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 55 grams butter at room temperature
- Get 500 grams plain white flour
- Make ready 1 extra egg beaten with two teaspoons of water for glazing ( optional)
- Prepare filling
- Get 200 grams cooked and stoned prunes or dried apricots( these apricots don't need cooking, just soak in hot black tea , discard the liquid)
- Get 1 tsp grated orange rind
- Take 2 tsp grated lemon rind
- Take 1/4 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
- Make ready 45 grams butter, melted
- Prepare 55 grams very fine chopped almonds or walnuts
- Get 2 tbsp caster sugar
This dish is my Italian adaptation of Paul Hollywood's eight strand bread. I'm sure this recipe will be delicious but I have a problem with the plaiting order of the bread according to what has been printed on the Paul Hollywood recipe on the BBC Food site. Started in a bread machine the dough is removed and plaited then left for an additional rise before being baked in your oven. Bread Glaze: Whisk together the egg, water and vanilla in a small bowl then brush the glaze on the bread.
Instructions to make sig's Plaited Fruit Bread:
- in a large bowl combine the yeast and lukewarm water, stir and leave for at good 15 minutes
- Stir in the milk, sugar,salt, egg and soft butter. Slowly add 350 gr of the flour to make a soft dough.Transfer to a floured surface and add more flour as you need it to obtain a smooth and elastic dough
- put into a clean bowl, cover and stand in a warm area leave to rise for 1 and1/2 hours
- to make the filling add all ingredients. Work into a rough to smooth paste. set aside
- grease your baking sheet.Punch down the dough and transfer to a lightly floured surface. knead briefly and roll into a 15 -10 inch rectangle and carefully lift to baking sheet not to loose shape
- spread the filling into the center, with a sharp knife cut 10 strips at an angle on either side, careful to cut just to the filling
- fold up the end. neatly and fold the strips alternating , fold excess dough underneath at the end.Cover loosely with a tea towel and leave to rise in a warm place until doubled in size
- preheat oven to 190 C / 385°F. Brush with the glaze bake until browned, about 30 minutes. transfer to a rack and cool.Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
Sprinkle with sesame seeds or other as desired. Bread supplies a significant portion of the nutrients required for growth, maintenance of health and well-being. It is an excellent source of protein, vitamins, minerals, fibre and carbohydrates. It is also low in fat and cholesterol. Bread is quite bulky so it takes longer to digest and is more satisfying.
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