6 FESTIVE BREAD RECIPES

Celebrate the season with comforting aromas and irresistible flavours as Chef Poonam Bindra brings you five festive bread recipes that blend tradition, creativity, and wholesome goodness.

- Chef Poonam Bindra

Each recipe is designed to elevate your holiday table with homemade charm. Get ready to knead, bake, and savour the magic of festive baking!

1 Preferment:

❖ 118g Flour

❖ 2g Yeast

❖ 102g milk

Mix it in a bowl and keep at room temperature for 2 hours or overnight in the chiller

To Make The Dough:

❖ 347g flour

❖ 118g milk

❖ 80g sugar

❖ 88g egg yolk

❖ 6.5g yeast

❖ 6g salt

❖ 60g butter

❖ 1nos lemon zest

❖ 125g raisins

❖ 50g candied orange peel

❖ 37g candied lemon peel

❖ 221g preferment ( the recipe is above)

Method:

❖ In a stand mixer add the preferment, flour, sugar, yeast, salt and mix it for a bit. Then add the milk and egg yolks and let it form into a dough

❖ Once the dough is formed then add in the butter. Mix it until it is incorporated. Then add in the raisins, lemon zest, candied orange peel and lemon peel)

❖ Then put it in a bowl and let it proof

❖ Once proofed, divide the dough and put it in a panettone liner and let it final proof.

❖ Once it has proofed, bake it @180 for 30mins

2 Stollen

To Make The Dough

❖ 500g flour

❖ 50g sugar

❖ 25g Brown sugar

❖ 50g butter

❖ 4nos eggs

❖ 200g milk

❖ 25g milk powder

❖ 25g yeast

❖ 100g soaked fruits

❖ 20g gluten

Method:

❖ In a mixer, add in all the flour, sugars, milk powder, yeast, gluten and add in the eggs and let it mix.

❖ Add in the milk and let it form into dough. Mix well.

❖ Add in the soaked fruits.and mix

❖ Keep it in a bowl and let it proof

❖ Remove and divide into 250 g and stuff it with the 30g of marzipan.

❖ Let it final proof. Once it is proofed