Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, saffron bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Saffron bread is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Saffron bread is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
The more saffron you use the brighter the colour; howevere saffron - real saffron not the ghastly powdered food colouring called saffron yellow is EXPENSIVE! SOme recipes include dried fruit and others are a basic sweetish white bread with saffron added. Lucia, Swedish saffron bread is great anytime and makes a fitting accompaniment for breakfast or brunch.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook saffron bread using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Saffron bread:
- Prepare 255 g strong white flour
- Take 1 (7 g) sachet fast acting yeast
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 25 g golden sugar
- Get 2 pinches saffron threads
- Get 3 tbs clotted cream
- Make ready For the filling
- Get 25 g butter (softened)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp mixed spice
- Get 50 g fruit (sultanas/raisins)
Knead the bread mixture until everything is combined. The bread should be a light orange/dark yellow in color. Then place the bread in a warm location, covered. Put the saffron in a small bowl with a few grains of salt and use the back of a teaspoon to grind to a powder.
Instructions to make Saffron bread:
- Grease a large loaf tin or 2 normal size tins.
- Heat the milk until just simmering. Add the saffron strands and allow to soak for 10 to 15.
- Add the clotted cream to the infused milk and saffron. Allow to simmer for a few minutes.
- Mix the flour, salt, yeast and sugar in a bowl.
- Create a well in the centre and then add the milk, cream and saffron mix. Mix well until you have a soft dough.
- Turn out onto a floured surface an knead for 5 - 10 minutes. Add the sugar and fruits as you go.
- Pop into a bowl and either cover with cling film and keep in a warm place, or put a prover until doubled in size. Approximately 40 minutes but could be longer.
- Once double in size, “knock back” the dough in the bowl and turn out an knead again for a further 5 minutes.
- Split the dough into three portions and roll each into a long sausage. Braid the dough sausages and place in the greased pan(s). Cover with film, or place in a prover, and allow to stand until again double in size. (I cheated I used cake liners rather than grease the tins). Again about 40 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 180c/gas 4. Cook for 25 min until golden. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. (While hot you can brush with honey if you really want sweet bread)
- Whether you then serve immediately or allow it to cool. Cut into thick slices and serve with butter or even better clotted cream.
- Enjoy.
Put in a small pan with the milk and set over a medium heat. Place bread flour, milk, eggs, sugar, butter, yeast, salt, and saffron in a bread machine in the order recommended by the manufacturer. This recipe employs the technique of steeping saffron in hot liquid to release its color and aroma, which adds a wonderful, mellow flavor to this bread. Saffron breads are a tradition in southwestern England and throughout many Nordic countries, especially Sweden and Finland. Remove from heat and stir to dissolve the sugar.
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