Eggless Coconut Nuttela Star Bread

I love baking!! And love baking something new and different every time. I was going through some youtube videos and happened to see a video about this recipe. The recipe required egg. But I somehow wanted to avoid eggs in my preparation. So, I made an eggless dough. I also modified the filling part. 

Here is the detailed recipe with some pics for the better understanding.

Ingredients

For the dough

• All purpose Flour - 2 cups
• Milk - 1/4 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Salt - 1.5 tsp
• Sugar - 3 tsp
• Butter - 2 tsp
• yeast - 1.5 tsp

For the filling

• Nutella - 1/2 cup
• Coconut - 1/2 cup (Freshly grated)
• Powdered sugar - 2 tsp (Optional)
• Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp (Optional)

Other Ingredients

• Melted Butter - For greasing
• Any jam - 3 to 4 tsp (I used lemon jam)
• Dessicated Coconut - to sprinkle after baking

Method

For the Dough

• Mix Maida and salt in a large bowl. Mix until combined
• In another microwave safe bowl, combine milk and water. Microwave until it is just warm. You can also do on stove top. It should not be hot because, hot water has the capacity to kill the yeast.
• Add yeast and sugar to the milk water mixture and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes the milk water mixture would have become frothy, if you had done everything well. If not, you need to start the entire process from the beginning.
• Now slowly pour the milk water mixture in to the flour, kneading well. Keep kneading for about 10 minutes, until the dough starts leaving your hands.
• Spread some melted butter all over the dough and knead again
• Transfer the dough in a greased bowl. Cover with a damp cloth and let it rest for a couple of hours

For the filling

• In a microwave safe bowl, melt Nutella in microwave. Do not melt it too much. This is done just to loosen the Nutella
• Mix coconut, powdered sugar and cinnamon in to it. Keep it aside. Your filling is now ready

How to proceed?

• Preheat the oven @175 deg C.
• After 2 hours, your dough would have become double the size. Punch out the air pockets from it.
• Divide the dough in to 5 or 6 lemon sized portions.
• Rotate each portion between your fists in order to get a round shape.
• Dust some flour on one portion and roll it using your rolling pin

 

• Keep some filling in the middle. Bring together all the edges to seal it. 

 

• Dust some flour again and gently roll it. Make sure the filling doesn't come out.

• Cut the rolled dough 12 times

 

• Now, rotate each petal in 90 degree angle, to form a shape of the flower.

 

• Do the same for the rest

 

• Arrange them in a baking tray and let it sit for 20 to 30 minutes.
• Brush each flower using some melted butter. If you wish, place some jam in the centre.

 

• Bake in the pre-heated oven for about 30 - 35 minutes, until the top portion becomes golden in colour.

 

• Once it is baked, take out of the oven and brush some melted butter again on top of each flower bread
• Sprinkle some dessicated coconut . Allow it to cool and then serve.