Chutney and Cheese Star Bread
The star bread is filled with Cilantro chutney and cheese and then shaped into this beautiful star shape and baked. It gives the same taste as if you are eating cheese and chutney sandwich on the streets of India.
Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 2 ½ cup All purpose flour or Bread flour
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- ¼ cup milk powder
- ¾ cup milk
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp instant yeast
- ½ cup cilantro chutney
- 3 cubes Amul cheese or ¼ cup any type of cheese
- 1 tsp sesame seeds
- 2 tbsp Milk or cream for washing on top
Instructions
- Place the all-purpose flour, sugar, salt, milk powder and yeast in the bowl of stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. If you do not have a stand mixer, you can do it by hand too. Give it a light mix.
- Warm milk in microwave until it is warm to touch around 110F. Milk should not be too hot, or else it will kill the yeast. Mix in the butter too in the milk. Let it melt too.
- Now, pour this liquid into the flour mixture. Beat the mixer for 3-4 minutes on slow. Once dough is formed. Lift the dough into ball. Use dry flour if its too sticky. If you are making it by hands, just mix everything and make dough.
- Place the dough in a greased bowl and cover it with plastic wrap. Place it in a slight warm place until it rises and doubles in size for 90 minutes.
- Prepare the cilantro chutney if you have not already prepared it. Shred the cheese and leave it aside.
- When the dough has doubled in size after 90 minutes, punch it down to release all the air bubbles. Lightly flour the surface you will be rolling out your dough.
- Divide the dough into 4 equal parts. I weighed each round. But you do not have to do so. Make sure its equal. Roll each dough ball into a round circle that should be 10-inch in circle.
- Form circles from other 3 balls. Place the first circle on a baking sheet. Adjust the shape if you need to do so. Take 1 tbsp of chutney and spread it on the circle. Followed by cheese. Sprinkle about 1 tbsp of cheese all over the chutney. Cover the chutney mix with another circle we formed.
- Repeat the process one more time, by spreading the chutney and cheese and covering it with another circle. Total filling will be in 3 layers. The top layer will not have any filling.
- Using a pizza cutter or knife, cut around on the outside of the circle to form even edges and even circle.
- Place a 3- inch round glass or bowl in the center of the circle and make a small indent. Do not cut it. Just a rough small circle. Take the bowl away. This will be called the center of the star.
- Next, cut strip with pizza cutter from the edge towards the circle. Maintain the inner circle. There will be 16 even strips.
- Use both hands and grab two strips next to each and twist them away from each other and then make a point and seal that point. Repeat until you have 8 points.
- Once shaped, cover the bread lightly with plastic wrap and let it rest for 20 minutes exactly.
- Preheat the oven to 400 F.
- Using a brush, lightly brush the bread once it has proofed after 20 minutes with some milk. This gives it some light color on top once baked. Sprinkle sesame seeds and bake it for 25 minutes or until the top has light brown color to it.
- Remove it form the oven, and let it cool down for 5 minutes. Move it to a cooling rack until it cools down completely, or you can serve it as soon as you like.
- In cold weather it can be stored at room temperature for 1 day. If you want to keep it longer then, store it in a container in the refrigerator.
Notes
- Layers: The top layer does not have filling on it, so only top 3 of the 4 shaped circles.
- Do not overfill the bread. Keep the filling light. Also, the filling should not be too watery or liquidly.
- You can have savory filling or sweet filling.