Saturday, February 13, 2010

Vegie stuffed plaits


Having baked the coconut fruit plait, I was wanting to try the savoury version. Then when Niki was home she suggested we try that. We decided to go with the recipe of the fruit plait, but make it with a vegetable stuffing. I had seen a similar braided bread in Vcuisine.
So between Niki and myself, we baked these savoury braids. We tweaked the earlier recipe with a mix of the flours.
Ingredients:
Flour (We mixed all purpose flour, wheat flour and powdered quick cooking oats) 500 grams
Dry active yeast 1/2 tablespoon
Salt 1 teaspoon
Butter 60 grams
Water 250 ml to mix the dough
Milk 1 tablespoon
Sugar 1 teaspoon
Oil few teaspoons
For the stuffing:
Boiled vegetables of choice, beansprouts and paneer 1/2 cup
Garam masala 2 teaspoons
Salt to taste
Chopped onions 2 teaspoons
Oil 2 teaspoons

Prepare the stuffing by cooking the vegetables and mixing them with the rest of the ingredients for stuffing.
Add sugar and lukewarm milk mixed with warm water to the yeast. Cover and allow the yeast to rise.
Mix the flours and salt in a bowl. Add the risen yeast to the dough and the butter. Knead to a soft and smooth dough. Knead well for about 12 minutes.
Place the dough in a slightly greased utensil and cover. Allow the dough to develop. In about an hour and a half, the dough would have doubled.
Punch the dough down thoroughly on a surface sprinkling some flour. This kneading is important as this allows the gluten to develop.
Divide the dough into 9 parts. Flatten each in an ablong shape. place the filling along the length of this ablong. Gather the ends to cover and seal the filling.
Repeat with two other parts of the divided dough.
Using three of the thus filled and sealed rope -like dough, braid in a plait. Seal the ends of the plait.


Repeat with the remaining six parts to form two more plaits.
Place the prepared vegetable plaits on the baking tray, well apart.
Allow another half an hour for this to develop.
Meanwhile pre-heat the oven to 210 degrees centigrade.
Brush some butter on the top of the plaits.
Bake them for 20 minutes or about 2 minutes more until they have a brown crust on top.



Allow to cool and turn them on to a wire rack, until cooled well.
Serve with some butter or can be had with any thin soup.

15 comments:

  1. lovely shaped puff..nice clicks..too good

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  2. Looks great Lata! I want to just tear a big huge piece of eat and have it for lunch! I just saw your coconut fruit plait and I want that for dessert! Wow!

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  3. Savory version sounds even more delicious..neat pics!

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  4. the bread looks perfect and well baked very delicious.

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  5. Superb braided bread, lovely shape...

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  6. Lovely pictures and an interesting recipe- bean sprouts? Have never tried that in a 'baked dish'.
    Looks delicious!

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  7. it looks perfect and beautiful!!!

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  8. Looks tempting... perfect braids.

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  9. These bread plaits look so lovely and delicious.Nice click.

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  10. They are perfect, Lata ji! I'm dying to try these now.

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  11. Perfect n beautifully done! I have missed this beautiful post..

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