Chutney Swirl Bread | Video

Chutney swirl bread. Take your humble white bread up a notch with stunning swirl effect. The green chutney brings an added depth of flavor and color to this beautiful bread. Create your own customized version with your favorite filling. You won’t believe how simple and easy this unique bread is!

The joy of baking bread at home is out-of-this-world. Without a doubt, the aroma of fresh bread is mesmerizing. And when combined with flavorful green chutney, the humble homemade bread is taken up a notch both in terms of flavor and taste.

The swirl effect is all about adding a layer of extra deliciousness to your humble bread. It’s essentially a black canvas on which you can add your favorite flavor. Considering kitchen as one of the most popular rooms in every home where all your favorite dishes are created, it’s a great idea to bring in the whole family to whip up this super easy to make swirl bread.

How to make swirl bread

As I mentioned, it’s super easy. Start with mixing up the dry ingredients – flour, yeast, a little sugar and salt. Although I prefer bread flour for bread making projects, regular all-purpose or plain flour works perfectly well in this recipe. When it comes to the type of yeast you’ll need in this recipe, instant or active dried yeast is the way to go.

Now, it’s time to add in the wet ingredients- melted butter and water. Make sure you use melted and not softened butter in this recipe. The water needs to be lukewarm, just the right temperature to activate the dried yeast. Remember no hot or boiling water as it will kill the yeast.

Once you add butter and water, stir with a wooden spoon to create a sticky dough. At this stage, you’ll need to cover the bowl and place it in a warm spot for about an hour. Now that’s the first step of making this swirl bread.

One hour later, the dough will be double in size but still sticky. Now, tip this onto a floured surface and start kneading. As you knead, sprinkle over more flour to transform sticky dough to perfectly soft and smooth dough. Roll this into a rectangle. Spread with the flavorful chutney and roll. Make sure you roll the dough tightly and evenly.

This goes into a buttered loaf tin for the second proofing. I like to brush the dough with a little egg white before it goes into the oven. Just because I love that beautiful brown top.

Customize swirl bread

Clearly, there are umpteen ways to add filling to this bread. Apart from coriander chutney, you can also add:

• Tomato chutney
• Cinnamon sugar
• Nutella or any chocolate spread
• Matcha

What’s your favorite flavor?

More bread recipes:

• Easy Pumpkin Bread
• Cheesy Garlic Pull Apart Bread

Yield: 1 loaf

Chutney Swirl Bread | Video

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Swirl bread loaded with green chutney. Easy to customize with your favorite flavor!

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

Bread:

• 2 cups all purpose (plain) flour or bread flour
• 1 tablespoon granulated (caster) sugar
• 2 and 1/2 teaspoon active dry yeast or instant yeast
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 50 g butter, melted
• 3/4 cup lukewarm water
• Extra flour, to knead dough
• 2 tablespoons egg white or milk, to brush on dough

Coriander coconut chutney:

• 2 cups chopped coriander (cilantro) leaves
• 1 and 1/2 cups grated coconut
• 2 chopped garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• Salt to taste

Instructions

1. Place flour, sugar, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Whisk to combine.
2. Add melted butter and water. Using a wooden spoon, bring the ingredients together to form sticky, soft dough.
3. Cover with a cling wrap or clean kitchen towel. Set aside in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
4. Preheat oven to 200 C or 400 F. Grease a 14x39 cm (7 cm deep) loaf pan.
5. Meanwhile, to make coriander coconut chutney, place coriander (cilantro) leaves, grated coconut, garlic cloves and lemon juice in a food processor. Add water only if needed. Process until smooth. Season with salt. Set aside.
6. Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface. Sprinkle more flour on top and knead for about 6-8 minutes or until the dough is soft and smooth.
7. Using a lightly floured rolling pin, roll out dough into a 5mm thick rectangle.
8. Spread over coriander coconut chutney. From one short end, roll up to form a log. Seal the ends. Transfer to the greased loaf pan, tucking in ends. Cover with cling wrap or clean tea towel. Stand for 30 minutes or until slightly risen.
9. Brush the top of the dough with egg white (or milk).
10. Bake for 45 minutes or until risen and golden. Cover with foil if it gets too dark.

Nutrition Information

Yield

10

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 421Total Fat 18gSaturated Fat 8gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 8gCholesterol 13mgSodium 363mgCarbohydrates 57gFiber 2gSugar 2gProtein 8g

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