Braided Lemon bread:
Braided Lemon bread:

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, braided lemon bread:. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Braided Lemon bread: is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Braided Lemon bread: is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook braided lemon bread: using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Braided Lemon bread::
  1. Take for Sponge:
  2. Make ready 6 tablespoons Lukewarm water
  3. Make ready 1 tsp brown sugar
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp dry yeast
  5. Make ready 1/4 cup all-purpose flour/ fine semolina
  6. Prepare for Dough:
  7. Get to Prepare Sponge
  8. Take 6 tablespoons hung curd
  9. Get 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
  10. Take 1 egg - beaten
  11. Prepare 1/4 cup sugar
  12. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  13. Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
  14. Get 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour /fine semolina
  15. Take for Lemon cream cheese filling:
  16. Make ready 1/3 cup cream cheese or paneer (churn paneer pieces with 1 tsp of water in the mixi jar)
  17. Make ready 2 tbsp sugar
  18. Get 2 tbsp hung curd
  19. Get 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
  20. Prepare 2 tbsp all-purpose flour /fine semolina
  21. Prepare 1/4 cup homemade lemon curd
  22. Get for For Egg wash:
  23. Take 1 egg beaten with 1 teaspoon water for brushing bread
  24. Make ready as needed white sugar for sprinkling
Steps to make Braided Lemon bread::
  1. Make the sponge- combine sponge ingredients in a small bowl stirring well to combine. Cover and set aside to proof for 15 -30 minutes.
  2. 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.
  3. Prepare the cream cheese filling: mix together the filling ingredients (except for the lemon curd) until smooth.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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).
  7. 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.

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