Chicken Bread

Ingredients for Dough

• 4 cups _ all purpose/plain flour
• 1 tbsp._ instant yeast
• 2 tbsp _. powdered milk
• 1 tsp._salt
• 4 tbsp._oil
• 1_egg (plus 1 for glazing)
• 1 tsp._castor sugar

Ingredients for Chicken Filling

• 1 1/2 - 2 cups chicken boiled and shredded
• 1 medium or 2 small onion chopped finely
• 1 tsp._salt
• 1 tsp._black pepper
• 2 tbsp._coriander leaves
• 4_chopped green chillies
• 1 tsp._garam masala powder
• 2 tbsp._flour
• 2 tbsp_.butter
• 1 cup_milk
• sesame seeds as required

Instructions
For the Filling

Heat 2 tbsp. butter fry onion till soft then add 2 tbsp. flour with 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. black pepper, 1 tsp. garam masala.

Add the milk, cook till thick, mix in the shredded chicken add chopped green chilies and coriander leaves, remove and cool completely.

For the Dough

In a bowl mix together 4 cups flour, 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. castor sugar, 2 tbsp. milk powder, 1 tbsp. yeast, 4 tbsp. oil and 1 egg, knead to a medium soft dough with slightly warm water, leave to rise for 1 hour. Divide the dough into two or three depending on how big you want the loaves. Proceed with viewing the subsequent steps to see how the bread is shaped.


STEP 1: Roll out the dough into a rectangle. Brush some softened butter over it.

Although the recipe doesn't call for it, I normally dab a touch of butter to this to make it ultra-yummy. :)
STEP 2:  Put your filling in the center of the rectangle and make slits on both of the longer sides.

STEP 3:  Start bringing the topmost slit ends across from each other alternately

STEP 4:  Keep going, remember to alternate, like a crisscross fashion. Left to right...right to left.

STEP 5:  This is how it will look as you get further down the bread with the crossing of the sides/braiding.

STEP 6:  When you reach the end, leave a tail at the bottom, just for the appearance. You can just tuck everything neatly in if you like, but I prefer to have that bit of a tail at the bottom of the loaf. :)

STEP 7:  Grease a tray and place your breads. The recipe says to make 2 loaves but I prefer dividing it into three and making three average sized loaves. That is up to your preference!

STEP 8:  Apply egg-wash and sprinkle the sesame seeds...then bake in a preheated oven at 200 C for about 25 minutes or until done.

(Egg-wash means to beat an egg with a tsp. of water then brush it all over your bread).

                  FINAL RESULT:  Voila! Enjoy your delicious chicken bread!!