Homemade Sweet Coconut Bread

Directions

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 300 grams Plain Flour
 12 grams Sugar
 6 grams Yeast
 6 grams Salt
 175 milliliters Water
 12 grams Butter
 1 egg
 9 g milk powder  

 Filling

 200 g Desiccated coconut
 100 ml coconut pani [treacle]
 2 tea spoon sugar
 ¼ tea spoon Cinnamon powder

In mixing bowl combine flour, sugar, yeast, milk powder and salt, and mix on low speed for one minute.

Add water, egg and mix on low speed for one minute.

Add in the butter and kneed until smooth and elastic, about 10 to 15 minutes at medium speed.

Cover dough with towel and let it rise in a warm place until volume doubles in size.

Punch the dough down. Now take the dough and make rounds 6 balls, Cover the balls and let rest for about 10 minutes.

Next, in a thick bottomed pan, put coconut pani, cinnamon and sugar and bring to boil (you need it to be around 100C degrees so use a thermometer).Then add the pani mixture to the coconut and mix well. Let cool.

Take a ball and roll it with rolling pin. Roll each ball into thin disks about 6 inches in diameter. Now place sweet coconut mixture.[ make rounds balls, about the size of a lime]

Now place the six balls in to a greased baking round tray.[7 inch diameter]Cover with tea towel and allow to rice for about 30 minutes.

After that beat the egg and brush over the bread and sprinkle sesame seeds on top.

Bake at 200C degree for 15 minutes.

Serve and enjoy.

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