Easy Braided Bread Recipe: How to make Beautiful Braided Bread

Bincy Chris

This Easy Braided Bread recipe will help you make super soft, fluffy beautiful braid bread at home.

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Prep Time 25

Cook Time 20

Resting Time 1 10

Total Time 1 55

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American, British

Servings Braided bread

Ingredients

For Bread Dough

340 g Flour or 2.5 cups +2 tbsp
150 ml Slightly warm milk (not hot) or .5 cup +2 tbsp
1 Egg
50 g Butter or 3.5 tbsp
3 g Yeast (instant/active dried yeast) or 1 tsp
30 g Sugar or 2.5 tbsp
6 g Salt or 1 tsp

For Egg wash

1 Egg Lightly Beat 1 Egg

Instructions

PREPARE THE BREAD DOUGH

Into a bowl,lets add all our ingredients together and mix them to form a shaggy mass of dough.
Add the milk,sugar,yeast,egg,salt ,butter and flour and mix them together.
Now we need to knead the dough.
Knead the dough until you get a soft and smooth dough which is not sticking to your hands. Ideally it should pass the window pane test.

DIVIDE AND SHAPE THE DOUGH

Once our bread dough is ready, divide the dough into three equal pieces.
Roll each piece of dough into small balls.
Tuck in the edges towards the centre and roll the balls into small round balls.
Now Cover and let the dough balls rest for 8-10 minutes before shaping them.
After 10 minutes, take each dough ball, degas and flatten the dough.
Roll each dough ball and then shape it into an elongated cylindrical dough strip , a log (around 20 cm ) by rolling.
Place each of them on the counter until we finish the rest of the rolls.And then take the first one, that we shaped.
Elongate the dough strand by pulling the dough and then rolling.
When it gain a length of around 45 cm, Keep it aside until we finish all the three.
I rolled the dough with extra pressure towards both ends, in order to get tapering ends.
HOW TO BRAID THREE STRAND BRAIDED BREAD
Arrange three strands side by side.
Firmly pinch the ends of the dough ropes together on top side. This will hold the top of the loaf together while you braid.
Begin to braid the bread by lifting the dough rope on the right and passing it over the center rope to the middle.
Even though I mentioned “middle”, you can see , I kept it closer and parallel to the one strand on the opposite side.
Then lift the one strand on the left and pass it over the center rope to the middle.
Then right over to middle , then left over to middle. Then repeat the same steps until you reach the end.
When you’ve braided all the way to the bottom of the loaf, pinch the ends of the dough ropes together.
This will give your three strand braided bread, an attractive, tapered shape, and help hold the braid together while the loaf rises and bakes.

PROOF THE BREAD DOUGH

Let the shaped braided bread dough sit in a warm environment for about 60 minutes or until they puff up and get doubled in size.
So cover it with a cling film and let the dough proof.
Tip :To prevent any chance of dough sticking to the cling film, I smeared the cling film with some olive oil before covering the dough.
After an hour, brush the top of the bread with an egg wash.This will help to make the top of our braided bread shiny and golden brown in colour when they are baked.
I sprinkled the top with some sesame seeds.

BAKE THE BRAIDED BREAD

Bake the Braided Bread in a 375 F or 190 C preheated oven for around 20-22 minutes.
After baking you will get a beautiful loaf of braided bread.
Transfer the bread on to a cooling rack so that the bottom will not get soggy.
Now wait for the braided loaf to cool down before slicing.
This bread smells amazing. It has super soft, moist crumb and amazingly beautiful golden brown crust.
Enjoy!

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