Green Garlic Bread

HI

When Vaishali came down for the BM#50, she was kind
enough to bring the green Garlic for all of us from Ahmedabad. The bunches were
neatly packed for each individual and was so perfectly packet that it stayed
fresh up to 2 weeks. I must say she took great care in packing these things for
us. Thanks Vaishali. But for you, I wouldn’t have tasted these at all.

So I had the green garlic and now the hunt for
recipes started. By then Valli had announced the BM, and what I felt that using
it the bread baking would do justice to the green garlic that I had safely
guarded till now. So tried this bread, with the finely chopped green garlic,
green chillies and the bread was very delicious.

INGREDIENTS

PREPARATION

Chop the greens and the garlic bulbs of the green
garlic finely

Chop the green chillies finely too

In the bowl of the stand mixer add the flour,
gluten, salt, sugar and yeast. Mix everything well

Now add the chopped green garlic, green chilli,
water and oil and start kneading in MINIMUM for 1 minute.

When the hook has gathered all the dough turn the
speed to ONE and let it knead the dough for 7 minutes

Take out the soft pliable dough and transfer it to a
well-greased bowl

Cover it and let it rest in a cool place for 1 hr
for it to double

After an hour, take it out, punch down, roll the
dough into a rectangle, and shape this into an oblong roll to fit the prepared
greased bread mould

Cover it loosely and again let it rest till it
doubles

Mine took 45 minutes

Preheat the oven to 200 C

Apply milk evenly over the surface to get a nice
brown crust. You can use egg wash too

Sprinkle some sesame seeds on the top

Bake it for 30-40 minutes or until done (Tap and see
if it sounds hollow)

Transfer this to a wire rack to cool

Let it cool completely

Apply butter and eat a slice or make a sandwich with
fresh veggies. It tastes heavenly