Stuffed Braided Bread | Whole Wheat Vegetable stuffed braided bread | Designer Bread
Braided bread is one of the designer bread where dough is shaped/cut as separate stripes and each stripe is interlaced to form structure
Servings 2 braids
Ingredients
- Wheat flour 1 cup
- Honey 1 tsp
- Dry Yeast 1 ½ tsp
- Salt ½ tsp
- Water ⅓ cup + 2 tbsp
- Oil 2 tbsp
Stuffing
- Capsicum ½ finely chopped
- Carrot ½ finely chopped
- Cabbage ½ cup
- Onion ½ finely chopped
- Salt ½ tsp
- Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
- Red chilli powder ½ tsp
- Garam masala ¼ tsp
- Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
- Oil 2 tsp
- Green Chutney as required
Instructions
Making dough
- Take ⅓ cup water in a bowl and warm in microwave for 15 seconds.
- Add honey and yeast to warm water.
- Mix it nicely and keep it aside for 15 minutes
- After 15 minutes yeast mixture should be frothy.
- Take flour and salt in a bowl and mix it nicely
- Add the frothy yeast mixture and knead to dough.
- Now add oil and knead for 10-12 minutes till it is smooth and soft.
- Cover and allow it to rise till it doubles in size.
Preparing Stuffing
- In the meantime we can prepare the stuffing.
- Chop the vegetables and wash them.
- Heat oil in a pan.
- Add the finely chopped onions and saute for 30 seconds.
- Then add ginger garlic paste and saute.
- Then add the vegetables and give a quick stir.
- Now add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala.
- Saute nicely for few minutes and switch off the flame.
Shaping Bread and Baking
- It will take between 1-2 hours. Mine got doubled in 1 hour.
- Punch the dough and knead for one minute.
- Grease the baking tray with oil or butter or line with foil. I used my round cake tin as my baking tray won't rotate in oven.
- Divide the dough into two parts and dust the surface with little flour and take one part of dough.
- Roll into rectangle and mark area in the center for stuffing.
- Apply some green chutney in the bottom.
- Then add the stuffing on the top.
- Cut thin strips on both sides with knife or pizza cutter.
- Start by folding the top part.
- Then fold each strips alternatively to form braided shape
- Finally fold the bottom to cover.
- Place the stuffed bread in the baking tin and allow it to rise for 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven at 180°C for ten minutes and bake in same temperature in 35-40 minutes till it browns.
- Brush it with little butter/oil
- Serve the stuffed braided bread hot with cup of coffee/Tea.
Notes
You can choose the stuffing as per your choice like paneer, mushroom or chicken. You can choose sweet stuffing too.
You can use 1 tsp of instant yeast instead of active dry yeast.
If the yeast is not active don't proceed further. There can be few reasons for yeast to be inactive. Yeast is very old and reaching expiry date. Quality of yeast is not good. If you add yeast to very hot water it will kill the yeast. Proofing of yeast is very important for any bread recipes.
You can add some cheese on the top of stuffing
Always allow the dough to double in size. Don't go by the timing as it will be different in different climatic conditions.