Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Fish shaped stuffed bread

I had seen these amazing fish shaped stuffed bread on facebook community Chef at Large. So I wanted to try them ever since. As my bread recipes were failing miserably due to lack of patience and good yeast, I was not keen on wasting good stuffing on failed bread :P

I believe I can bake an acceptable bread now, so I gave it a shot. I am just going to refer recipe for standard basic bread, and so not going to write it down again. But going to post recipe for stuffing and how to achieve desired shape.

What is required:
1. Basic white bread dough => http://vinitsjoyofcooking.blogspot.in/2015/07/basic-white-bread.html
2. Stuffing

Stuffing:

Ingredients:
1 chicken sausage finely chopped
1 medium sized onion finely chopped
1 small tomato
1 tsp garam masala
salt and black pepper for taste
1 tsp oil/butter
1 tsp all purpose flour

Method:
- Saute onions till they become brown.
- Add tomatoes, salt, pepper, garam masala and saute well
- Add chicken sausage and make sure chicken is cooked through
- At this point add all purpose flour and make sure all mixture has gone dry
- turn of flame and let this be cooled down to room temperature.
- Make sure stuffing is dry, else it will make bread dough saggy and ruin everything


Preparing fish shapes:

- Divide bread dough in equal shaped balls and roll them out on nicely dusted surface
- Now cut flatten dough in angular stripes as shown in pic

- Put mixture in the center, I applied little tomato sauce, but then I realized its making dough saggy,
so avoided it later. 
- Start folding  stripes in alternate fashion as shown in pic


- Now your fish is ready, transfer it carefully on dusted baking tray
- Let it rest and rise again for hour.

 - Lightly brush with milk/egg white, put sesame seeds/herbs on top
- Bake in 180 degree celsius pre-heated oven for 25-30 minutes or top becomes brown


-  Take out from oven and let it cool on rack.
- Garnish and serve while its warm

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