Tricolor bread!

I adore freshly baked bread and today fancied baking something a bit different so I did a bit of googling and stumbled upon this recipe:

http://dolcevitadiaries.com/2013/09/20/tricolour-braided-bread-with-pesto-sundried-tomatoes-and-garlic/

I then adapted it to make my own tricolour bread with sundried tomatoes, pesto and garlic. It is a really soft and delicious bread, bursting with flavours!

Yummy Mummy's Tricolour Bread
Makes 1 large loaf

500g strong bread flour,
7g (1 sachet) of fast action dried yeast,
15g butter,
1 1/2tsp salt,
1tsp sugar,
300ml warm water,

10 sundried tomatoes, chopped into small pieces,
2 heaped tsp pesto,
2tsp chopped/crushed garlic.

1. Mix together the bread flour, yeast, butter, salt and sugar. Knead for several minutes until you have a smooth and stretchy dough. Cover and leave in a warm place to rise for about 45 minutes.

2. Knock the dough back and seperate into 3 equal balls.
3. Knead the sundried tomatoes into 1 ball, the pesto into another ball and the garlic into the third ball. Roll into long sausage shapes.

4. Plait the 3 strands of dough together, tucking the ends under. Try and plait with an even tightness all down the loaf, you can see on my finished loaf I plaited tighter as I got near the end, ooops! 

5. Place onto a non stick tray and cover. Preheat the oven to 210C. Leave the loaf to rise for about 45 minutes.

6. Brush the top of the risen loaf with milk, then bake at 210C for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes turn the oven down to 180C and leave to bake for a further 20 minutes until golden on top. The loaf should sound hollow when you tap on the bottom.

7. Leave to cool on a wire rack then enjoy!

xxx