Croissant Bread

Bonjour a tous!
This is a recipe for coconut and jaggery stuffed bread that can be shaped into a croissant! Lets begin.

For the bread :
Flour - 1 3/4th cup

Milk (room temp) - 3/4Th cup

Butter (room temp) - 3 Tblsp (1 Tbsp melted completely)

Yeast - 1Tsp

Sugar - 1 Tblsp

Salt - 1 Tsp

For the filling: Grated Coconut - 3 Tblsp Jaggery - 2 Tblsp Cardamom Powder - 1tsp ( from a few pods)

To make the filling - Mix all three ingredients and keep aside.

For the topping: Sesame seeds Egg for egg wash. This can be skipped and you could use a mix of 1Tblsp of milk and 1 Tblsp of butter instead for the wash instead.

Mix well 1 Tblsp of the melted butter, all the Milk and all the sugar.
Add in all the yeast. And keep aside for 10 mins covered with a cloth to let the yeast activate!

After 10 mins the yeast should bloom and froth like above.

Mix in the remaining ingredients for the bread and knead in the bowl by stretching and folding the dough upon itself.
It will be sticky, nothing to worry, just keep kneading with a spoon or with your fingers. After stretching and folding a few times, you can add butter and fold the dough again and knead till the dough becomes smooth. You can shape it into a smooth ball and cover it in the bowl for 30 mins. This will be the proofing step.

After 30 mins it should have doubled in size. If not it would mean you have to wait a little longer till it doubles in size.

Now that your dough has doubled in size, you can portion it equally into 8 small balls.
You could shape them all into croissants or like me you can shape half of them into croissants and the rest into rolls.

For the croissants:

Take a ball. Roll it out flat on a floured surface. Using a knife or pizza cutter cut long strips into the rolled out dough halfway from the dough, without actually cutting it all the way through (as in the picture) and put some of the coconut filling in the half of the dough that hasn't been cut through. Then roll it all the way through and it should look like a moon shaped roll or a croissant! These should be placed on the baking tray.

Do the same with the rest of the dough and then cover it and let it rise for another 15 mins.

Brush them with the egg wash and sprinkle sesame seeds on them.

Bake them in a baking tray at 180 degrees Celsius for 20 mins!

After 20 mins in the oven your croissant bread is ready! You could enjoy it with some coffee or with some ginger cardamom Chai !