Nowadays life has become painful quite literally, as I am having muscle pain in my hands for about 3 weeks. I went to doctor and he prescribed some medications, as an obedient patient I took the medicine, ended up getting really bad side effects, yes edema, swelling in hands and fingers. Yesterday I called the nurse line and was instructed to keep ice pack to reduce the swelling. The swelling is down a little bit, still my two fingers are swollen; driving car is really difficult still I need to drive so that I can drop my kids to school. Also I need to post for this month’s baking partner challenge. As usual I am late this month too. This month Baking Partner challenge was to make orange blossom water brioche.
This recipe is adapted from famous pastry chef Dominique Ansel’s The secret recipes book. Actually I was planning to suggest magic soufflé from the book. Orange blossom water brioche was the base of that recipe and chocolate soufflé is inside. I got excited after seeing the recipe, and also tried magic soufflé, but ended up making chocolate lava. May be the reason for the failure is the absence of pastry rings which chef Dominique Ansel has suggested. When I made chocolate soufflé the lava erupted, and I thought that was the end of the lava eruption. No I was wrong, when covered with brioche dough again lava erupted making the volcano fall in my oven. I was so disappointed that I couldn’t bring myself to try again. May be when I recover from this shock and try to figure out a way out of it, I am going to conquer the magic soufflé for sure.
Coming to orange blossom water brioche, brioche, is a pastry of French origin that is similar to a highly enriched bread, and whose high egg and butter content give it a rich and tender crumb. It is "light and slightly puffy, more or less fine, according to the proportion of butter and eggs." It has a dark, golden, and flaky crust, resulted from egg wash. For this orange blossom water brioche, recipe asked for orange oil, which I don’t have it in my hand, so I used orange extract, you can skip that if you don’t have it. But make sure to add lots of orange zest and orange blossom water. If you don’t have access to orange blossom water, you can use rose water. Then you have to change the name to rose water brioche. Also don’t make adjustment with egg or butter then it won’t be brioche. It is delicious; my kids finished the brioche within a day.
I thought I will get some few leftovers to make bread pudding but never got it. May be next time I will increase the amount? It is really easy recipe you need to make the dough day before and bake it next day. You can also use muffin tin or bundt pan to make fun shape. I used mini bundt pan to make it. Give it a try, you will love it.
If you want bake with us next month please join us by just shooting an e-mail. Here comes the recipe.
Delicious orange scented brioche rolls great for any breakfast.
Ingredients
- 2 cups/ 280g Bread flour *( if you don’t have bread flour, For each cup of bread flour required, put 1 teaspoon of vital wheat gluten into the cup and fill the remainder with all-purpose flour)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup/ 51 g Granulated sugar
- 2 ¼ teaspoon of instant yeast ( if you have SAF gold, osmotolerant yeast then use 2 teaspoon)
- 4 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon/15g whole milk
- 11 tablespoon/153 g unsalted cold butter small dice
- ¼ teaspoon Orange extract (if you have in hand, otherwise leave it)
- 1 teaspoon /5g orange blossom water ( if you don’t have it in your hand use rose water, then change the name to rose water brioche)
- Non stick spray or oil as needed for greasing
- All purpose flour or maida for dusting
Instructions
- In a bowl, combine the bread flour, salt, sugar, yeast and eggs and mix well using hand or if using kitchen aid stand mixer use dough hook.
- Mix everything until combined, knead well so that it develop gluten may be 10 -15 minutes. When it develop gluten the dough will leave the sides and it will pass the window pane test. ( when you pull a piece of dough you can extend the dough without breaking it, also you can make a see through sheet that is called window pane test).
- Then add cold diced butter, and mix again until all the butter is incorporated well.
- Then add orange extract, orange zest, orange blossom water and mix until everything is fully incorporated. The finished dough should be smooth, shiny and sticky.
- Lightly grease a medium bowl and transfer the dough to the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap pressed directly on to the surface of the dough to prevent a skin from forming.
- Proof the dough at room temperature for doubled in size. It will take about 1 ½ hours.
- Remove the plastic warp and punch down the dough by folding. Cover the dough again with plastic wrap pressed directly on the surface. Refrigerate overnight to relax the gluten.
- Next day
- When you are ready to bake, transfer the dough to lightly floured area and divide the dough into small pieces
- and shape it into balls/rolls or any shape you want.
- If you using muffin tin grease them well and transfer the shaped balls,
- set aside for 45 minutes or 1 hour until the rolls puffed up well. While the shaped rolls are proofing preheat oven to 400 F/205C.
- After 1 hour, brush the brioche rolls with egg wash and bake them for 10 minutes or until they become golden brown in color.
- Leave the brioche for 5 minutes in the pan and carefully remove them and enjoy as much you want. Brush them with little jam or nutella it is so delicious.
Notes
This recipe is adapted from here
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Del's cooking twist says
They look fantastic. I love them! 🙂 I'm a huge fan of orange blossom water actually!
amrita says
perfectly baked...
ramya says
wow perfect brioche.love the flavor.take care swathi.
sona says
this looks fantastic.. i love the flavors in it..
Rafeeda says
Get well soon Swathi... when we have any illness, it literally affects the whole family! Hope it all ceases soon... the brioche buns look amazingly soft...
Gourmet Getaways says
Looks good and with a hint of orange..mmmm! The problem with meds is really - side effects :(. Hope you feel better, Swathi!
Julie & Alesah
Gourmet Getaways xx
Brooks at Cakewalker says
Swathi, the orange water brioche look delectable! I like the fun shapes afforded by the bundlette pan. Hopefully the pain and swelling will subside soon. Take care!
Swathi says
Thanks Brooks, Yes pain is getting better.
Cathleen @ A Taste Of Madness says
Oh no! I hope you feel better soon! I have never had side effects from medicine. That must be an awful experience.
But this looks so good!! Yum!
Swathi says
Thanks Cathleen pain is subsiding now. still I have it.
Radha says
Despite the pain, you have made amazing brioche. Get well soon.
Easyfoodsmith says
Sorry to hear you were not keeping well. I hope your Vit D levels are optimum. Sometimes Vit D deficiency leads to such pain (been through it so just thought of sharing it with you)
The brioche looks beautiful and I hope to make it some day.
Swathi says
I am planning to add vitamin D also. Now pain is getting less still have it.
Sangeetha Priya says
delicious buns Swathi, take care of your health!!!
tigerfish says
Must be so good to have the orange fragrance filling up the kitchen and house when the brioche is being made.
Winnie says
These look fantastic!! And i wish I could have one to eat right now 🙂
Swathi - please do keep your Doctor's instruction. If you should not bake, then don't!. Your blog can wait
Swathi says
Thanks Winnie, Yes I taking it slow now, still I have pain.
Archana says
Take care of your self Swathi. I hope you feel better soon.
Yummy biroche loved them.
Swathi says
thanks Archana, it is getting better still I have it.
Mullai Madavan says
Beautifully baked brioches Swathi! Take care, hope you feel better!
mjskit says
Gorgeous brioches Swathi! I bet that orange blossom water imparts a wonderful flavor. So pretty!
Suja Manoj says
Looks beautiful Swathi,thanks for sharing this recipe,loved the challenge
Sundari says
So beautifully made!! Looks yumm!!
Hema says
So beautifully puffed up, just so tempting..
Marisa says
I couldn't imagine how much my son like this brioches. He has eaten them with different fillings. Thanks for the recipe. Yours are beautiful. Sure we'll give them another try. Cheers from a rainy Valencia and in Fallas.
Nalini Somayaji says
just yummy and beautiful orange blossom water brionche..
Malar says
Wow Swathi!!! I simply loved it.....They look so perfect!
traditionallymodernfoodtra says
Looks perfect Swathi:-) tempting to taste