Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, braided lemon bread:. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
If you're using a bread machine, combine all the dough ingredients in the pan and set the machine on the dough cycle. Braided Lemon Bread Adapted from my favorite bakers. I made a lot of changes to the original recipe, because I'm like that; I halved it because the original recipe would make two huge braids.
Braided Lemon bread: is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Braided Lemon bread: is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have braided lemon bread: using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Braided Lemon bread::
- Get for Sponge:
- Take 6 tablespoons Lukewarm water
- Make ready 1 tsp brown sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp dry yeast
- Make ready 1/4 cup all-purpose flour/ fine semolina
- Take for Dough:
- Take to Prepare Sponge
- Make ready 6 tablespoons hung curd
- Get 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- Get 1 egg - beaten
- Take 1/4 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour /fine semolina
- Prepare for Lemon cream cheese filling:
- Make ready 1/3 cup cream cheese or paneer (churn paneer pieces with 1 tsp of water in the mixi jar)
- Take 2 tbsp sugar
- Get 2 tbsp hung curd
- Take 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
- Make ready 2 tbsp all-purpose flour /fine semolina
- Make ready 1/4 cup homemade lemon curd
- Make ready for For Egg wash:
- Get 1 egg beaten with 1 teaspoon water for brushing bread
- Take as needed white sugar for sprinkling
Braided Lemon Bread. (barely adapted from Smitten Kitchen, here ). Mix the sponge, sour cream, butter, egg, sugar, salt. This Braided Lemon & Cream Cheese Bread will not only have a swooning effect on your loved ones, but you too will easily be drawn into the simple instructions for making what appears to be a. Braided Lemon Bread. (from Smitten Kitchen ).
Steps to make Braided Lemon bread::
- Make the sponge- combine sponge ingredients in a small bowl stirring well to combine. Cover and set aside to proof for 15 -30 minutes.
- Make the dough - In a stand mixer or in a big bowl combine the sponge, hung curd, butter, egg, sugar, salt and vanilla. Add flour and mix clock wise with help of your palm about 5 mins, until you find long elastic kind of texture and knead on until a soft, smooth dough forms, place this dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and allow to rise for 1 to 2 hours or more, until quite puffy and nearly doubled.
- Prepare the cream cheese filling: mix together the filling ingredients (except for the lemon curd) until smooth.
- Punch down the dough and roll out into a 10"by 15" rectangle on a well-floured surface. Transfer the rectangle to a square of butter paper (this is IMPORTANT. You need to do this so that you can easily shift the braided loaf to baking tray). Draw /Press two lines into the dough dividing it into three equal sections.
- Spread the cream cheese topping on the middle section and then spread the lemon curd over it leaving the top and bottom two inches free.Cut strips one inch apart on the two outside sections, leaving top and bottom wide part to fold inwards.
- Fold the top and bottom middle flap inwards. Then begin crossing the one-inch strips alternatively to make the mock braid. (refer the pictures for this part).
- Transfer this loaf to baking tray, cover with wet kitchen towel. Let the loaf rise for 1 hour until puffy.Brush the loaf with the egg mixed with one tsp water, sprinkle with sugar and bake at 180C for 30 - 40 minutes or until golden. Let cool for around 15 minutes before cutting and serving.
This slightly sweet, lemony, and tender braided bread lands somewhere between brioche and challah. Serve the impressive poppy seed-studded loaf with dinner, use it to for sandwiches. This slightly sweet, lemony, and tender braided bread lands somewhere between brioche and challah. This Braided Lemon Bread is the August Avid Bakers Challenge , hosted by Hanaa of Hanaa's Kitchen. But he came back for seconds.and thirds.
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