Yummy Braided Bread

Ingredients:

Dough Ingredients:

• 3 cups of all purpose flour
• 1 and 1/2 table spoon sea salt
• 4 table spoon coconut oil ( you can use any other oil about 3 quater of a cup
• 2 eggs
• 1 table spoon dry yeast
• 1 table spoon sugar

Filling Ingredients:

• 2 cups of frozen mix vegetable
• 1 medium size onion (cut in to thin slices)
• 1 table spoon freshly ground garlic
• 1 table spoon freshly ground ginger
• 1 table spoon sea salt
• 1 teaspoon hot red chili powder
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 pinch of clove powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon powder
• 2 cups of broccoli cut into small pieces
• 2 lbs. of chicken breast cut into small pieces(OR instead of chicken breast you can use 2 lbs. of ground meat)

Directions:

Take a big bowl and add the flour, salt, sugar, eggs, and coconut oil. Mix together evenly with your hands or standing mixture. In a separate bowl pour in the yeast and add a cup of room temperature water with a pinch of sugar. Let it sit for two minutes. Then after two minutes add this yeast mixture into the flour mixture.

Add lukewarm water and make the dough, about 1 and 1/4 cup of water you will need to make the dough. The dough should not be hard or very soft. Preheat the oven to 130 degrees. Once it has reached this temperature, turn the oven off. Cover the bowl with its lid. Place the dough pot in the oven for 2 to three hours until the dough becomes double the size, then put the pot in the fridge.

Directions for the filling:

Pour the mixed vegetables into a pot, add 1/4 cup water and 2 tablespoons of cooking oil. Let it cook until all the water disappears.

In a non-stick pan, add 1/4 cup oil and the sliced onions and cook on low medium heat. When the onions become translucent, add the ground garlic and stir.

After a minute or so, add the chicken and stir. Keep stirring on and off.

When you see that water has come out from the chicken, dry it up. When the water almost disappears, add the broccoli and ginger, and stir.

Stirred after adding in broccoli

Then add the cooked mix vegetables and all the spices and stir.

In one cup of water add one table spoon of corn starch mix it and add it into the pan with all the cooked ingredients, keep cooking this for five minutes.

After 5 minutes, your filling mixture is now ready, it should be completely cooled down before filling the dough.

Braided Bread process:

With all the above ingredients you can make two extra large braided breads.
Make two balls from this dough. Use a rolling pin to spread the ball long and normal thin. Put half of the chicken vegetable mixture in the middle.

Cut the sides of the dough with a pizza cutter as shown in the picture.

Take one strand of dough at a time and make a braided design. Do this until the filling has been covered, as seen in the picture.

On a flat baking tray, place parchment paper and sprinkle oil. Place the braid carefully on the tray and brush the braid with a beaten egg and sprinkle sesame seeds or kalongi seeds.
Preheat the oven to 360 degrees. And place the tray on the middle wrack. Cook until it has become a light golden colour.

Has turned golden

Take out the tray and brush the bread with melted butter and serve. To cut pieces, use a bread knife.