Hidden beauty in a dough...

Hidden beauty in a dough...

There is a hidden beauty in every dough, you just need a creative hand with fearless experimentation and you can also create a piece of art. Nowadays, everyone is on cooking and baking spree with pictures after pictures of beautifully baked cakes, muffins, breads all over social media. It sometimes so confusing which one is the best. I came across beautiful bread pictures which were no less then a piece of art. In some of them there were such intricate details weaving of simple dough into the flowers which were perfectly carved into the crust.These beauties inspire me to create something new every time.

Bread baking will always be my first love may be because I don’t  like sweets.The simplicity of bread baking keeps me comming back to them.

Love the smell  of fresh bread like always. There are different ways to do your breads but dough almost remains the same. If you love baking you can get real creative with the same dough. So lets get little creative.

PESTO FLOWER BREAD

Ingredients:

• 2 cups strong bread flour, plus more for                      dusting

• ½ teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon yeast

• ⅔ cup warm water

• 1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil, plus a tiny bit          for greasing

• 1 teaspoon sugar

• 3 teaspoon butter

• Sesame seeds/onion seeds

• 1 teaspoon milk powder

• Some warm milk and butter for milk wash

            Spread for bread between layers.

Pesto sauce homemade or store bought. Just in case you don’t have pesto sauce use pizza sauce or make a paste of cilantro, a green chilli,olive oil and little salt.

Mozzarella and cheddar chesse grated.

These are some words that you will frequently come across while baking bread.It's good to know for first timers .Proofing (also called proving) which is used frequently its nothing but its a step in the preparation of yeast bread and other baked goods where the dough is allowed to rest and rise a final time before baking. During this rest period, yeast ferment the dough and produce gasses, thereby leavening the dough or giving it a rise in volume.

Preparation:

• Take flour,sugar, milk powder, salt and yeast               in a bowl.

• Stir it with your hand and knead it with warm           water.

• Dough is quite sticky keep kneading add butter          in the dough.

• Knead it to form soft dough .

• Let it rest for 40 min or double in size.

 After 40 minutes check the dough, dust it knead again and cut three equal parts.Roll each part like a pizza but little thin around  10 -12 inches.

•   Grease the pizza dish and put the first rolled out dough on it, spread pesto sauce and sprinkle grated cheese.

• Repeat the same with the second layer.

• Now cover the 2nd layer with the last rolled              dough.

• Keep a bowl in the centre for reference.

• Start making by equal 4 cuts making a cross.

• Now slowly with reference picture make rest             32 cuts in total &roll each slit inwards to turn it into flower petals.

• Once done apply milk wash and sprinkle top with sesame seeds or onion seeds.

• Bake in preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius for 40 min.

• Once u take it out apply some butter  to keep it soft.

• Enjoy your bread with a dip or a pasta.

Do share your views and comment and help me to improve...tc happy baking.