How to Roll Out a Braided Bread Recipe

How to Roll Out a Braided Bread Recipe
Hi. My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make a braided wreath of bread. Okay, so it's been about an hour and a half. So we're going to pull back our towel here. And we'll see that it's pretty much doubled in size like it's supposed to. So what we're going to do is we're going to take our very clean hand and we're going to punch our dough down. What this does is this knocks all the extra air out of it. From where that yeast rose. Excellent, so now we're done. Now what we're going to do. I'm going to get a little bit of flour on this counter top. Not a whole lot. Matter of fact I'm going to get my flour closer to me just so I don't make a giant mess. There we go. Set that aside. Now we're going to move this around and get us a nice floured work space to work with here before we turn this dough out on it. And now and just because we oiled our pan our dough just goes plop and falls right out. And you don't want to do what I just did because I just blew flour all over the place. So you don't want to plop it right out like that. That might have been a mistake. So now let's turn it over. Let's pick up some of that flour. And the problem is this side, the top side is going to have a small crust on it so we're going to want to turn this in like this and get that crusty bit on the inside where it will re-moisten and kind of disappear. So let me get some more flour here. And what we're going to do is kind of form kind of a loafy shape out of this right now and we're going to cut it into six pieces. Because it's going to be two braided pieces we're going to join together in the center. It's just easier to do it that way. So let's grab one of my knives. Right down the center just like that and then each one of these is going to get cut into three pieces that are approximately the same size. Alright, and now we're going to take these and roll them into little balls. Shouldn't take more than a minute or so.