Garlic Bread Santa

Name: Garlic Bread Santa
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 250 gms Alll purpose flour; 1 tsp salt; 2 tbsp milk powder; 1 tbsp sugar; 1 tsp instant dry yeast; 1/2 cup+2 tbsp warm water; 2 tbsp oil; 4 tbsp butter; 1 tsp Italian mixed dried herbs; 1 tsp chilli flakes; 6-8 garlic cloves; 2 tsp Milk; 1 drop red food colour

Shilpa Gupta @cook_12435534

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Garlic Bread Santa is Santa Claus shaped bread with flavours of garlic and mixed herbs.

Shilpa Gupta @cook_12435534

#bakes
Garlic Bread Santa is Santa Claus shaped bread with flavours of garlic and mixed herbs.

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Ingredients

250 gmsAlll purpose flour
1 tsp salt
2 tbspmilk powder
1 tbspsugar
1 tsp instant dry yeast
1/2 cup+2 tbsp warm water
2 tbspoil
4 tbspbutter
1 tspItalian mixed dried herbs
1 tspchilli flakes
6-8garlic cloves
2 tsp Milk
1 dropred food colour

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Steps

1

Dissolve sugar and yeast in 2 tbsp warm water. Leave for 5 minutes to bloom the yeast.
2

Bring butter to room temperature. To this add chilli flakes, mixed herbs and grated garlic. Mix.
3

In a kneading plate take all purpose flour, salt, milk powder. Mix.
4

To flour mixture add oil and bloomed yeast mixture. Mix well.
5

Knead into a very soft dough using warm water. The dough would be very sticky. Keep kneading for 2-3 minutes.
6

Gradually add 2/3 of garlic butter to the dough kneading it for 6-8 minutes. As butter is added to the dough it gets very smooth and non sticky. Knead it until very smooth and pliable.
7

Keep the dough in a greased bowl. Oil the dough too. Leave it for 2 hours or till it gets double in size.
8

Take out the proved dough onto a floured surface and knock down. Divide the dough into two halves.
9

Roll both halves in oblong shape. Place one part on greased baking tray.
10

Cut the other half in half. Mark vertical cuts in lower half for beard of Santa. Place it over lower half of part placed in baking tray.Cut the upper half in 3 parts, one for moustaches, second for cap's rim and remaining for nose and top ball of cap.
11

Mark horizontal cuts for moustaches. Arrange it over beard. Twist cuts in beard and moustaches.
12

Pull the top of Santa slightly and give it a cap fold. Place the cap rim above moustaches. Make two balls from remaining dough for cap ball and nose.
13

Make two even small balls for eyes. Use black pepper for eye ball.
14

Leave the Santa for 1 hour for second proving.
15

Give milk wash to Santa.
16

Dissolve red food colour in 1 tsp Milk and colour cup and nose.
17

Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes at 200 degrees and then reduce the temperature to 170 degrees and bake for 15 minutes or until bread gets little brown on top.
18

Remove from oven. Brush with remaining garlic butter. Cover with clean towel for five minutes to make it soft.
19

Serve.