Vego Mum: Thermomix Watermelon bread

I've been a little obsessed with bread making lately. There's no better reward than seeing your loved ones enjoy the food you make everyday.

My boys (and I) love fruit. The sweeter and juicier, the better. After making the Panda bread, I saw a watermelon bread online and wanted to make that too.

This bread is easier and less fiddly to make than the Panda bread. My boys were also really impressed with it too and enjoyed it immensely :)!

I used my own bread recipe which I also use for the Panda bread. This is easier to make than the panda bread and just as impressive!

Ingredients

1 egg yolk and milk to total 200g

30g sugar

2 tsp yeast

340g bakers flour

1 tsp bread improver (optional)

1 tsp salt

15-20g unsalted butter

60g (3/4 cup) raisins/sultanas or choc chips (add more or less to your liking)

Beetroot juice or pink/red colouring

Pandan juice/essence or green colouring

Method

1. Add milk and egg yolk in TM and mix for 1 min/sp2/37deg

2. Add sugar, yeast, bakers flour, bread improver (if using) and salt (In that order) and mix sp7/7 sec

3. Knead for 4-5 minutes

4. Add butter in 1-2 minutes before kneading is finished

5. Turn dough onto thermomat. Divide dough into 3 parts:

Half the dough for the Pink/red colouring

Divide the other half into 2 for the green and white (plain) dough

6. Cover the remaining dough while you mix the colours - in case it dries out.

Don't forget to Add the raisins/choc chip to the pink/red dough and knead gently to combine evenly

7. Let dough rest and rise in a warm area for approx 20mins. Keep covered so the dough doesn't dry out.

8. Roll pink/red dough out into a cylinder shape. Use your bread tin as a guideline as to how big you roll it. Set aside

9. Roll out the white dough flat and wrap it around the pink/red dough like you would a sushi. Use water or milk if necessary

10. Roll out the green dough flat and wrap it around as the outside layer like you would a sushi. Use water or milk if necessary

11. Place it in a greased bread tin (ugly side down) and let it rise in a warm area (I just place it in a cold oven with a bowl of boiled water to create a sauna for the dough :p)