How to make braided bread

Every time you visit friends or colleagues’ homes, you’ll find that they all have one or two specialties. But every time it was my turn, I was always short of money. You look particularly embarrassed like this, don't you? So, for the sake of your dignity, come and learn how to make braided bread from me now.

1.1 Put all ingredients except butter into the bread machine bucket in the order of liquid first and powder later. You can leave 10 grams of water for adjustment. Keep sugar, salt and yeast separate.

2.2 Material diagram.

3.12 Start the bread machine's kneading program and add butter after 30 minutes.

4.21 Start the dough kneading program again, check the dough after 30 minutes, use my bread machine to knead the dough, the dough cannot be fully expanded at this time, you need to start the dough proofing program again, after 20 minutes, the dough can be pulled out of the glove film and directly enter the dough proofing process. This picture of the dough is borrowed, the actual dough will be bigger than this.

5. Divide and shape the risen dough and let it relax for ten minutes. I divided the dough into nine portions.

6. Press the shaped dough into a long shape. Do not push it hard during the pressing process. If it cannot be pushed easily, let it relax a little and then press it again.

7.1 Make the strips one by one.

8.2 Turn the long dough over and roll it into a long strip.

9. Braid into a pigtail shape.

10. Put a pan of hot water in the oven and put the raw braids in for final fermentation, which takes about 40 minutes.

11. Take out the fermented bread and brush it with egg liquid.

12. Put it in the oven, 170 degrees in the middle layer, for 20 to 25 minutes.

13. Remove from the oven after the coloring is ideal.

Maybe you’ve had braided bread before, but after reading the introduction above, you finally know how it’s made. Is there any reason to make it yourself?