Whole Wheat Eggless Cinnamon & Raisin Swirl Bread Recipe

Step 1: To prepare Whole Wheat, Eggless Cinnamon & Raisin Swirl Bread Recipe, firstly get prep with all the ingredients

Step 2: In luke warm water, add yeast and sugar, and give a quick stir with a fork and keep aside for 10 mins to activate the mixture

Step 3: Meanwhile, sift flour and keep aside

Step 4: Once the yeast is activated, add it in the flour

Step 5: Knead to make a smooth and soft dough

Step 6: Brush a teaspoon of olive oil on the dough and keep aside in a large greased bowl

Step 7: Cover the bowl with a cling foil or a moist kitchen towel

Step 8: Allow it to rest and double its size for one and half hours

Step 9: While the dough is resting, mix powdered sugar, cinnamon powder, and raisins with a fork and leave aside

Step 10: Grease and dust a Loaf pan and keep aside

Step 11: When the dough doubles its initial size after one and half hours, transfer it on the clean whole wheat flour dusted kitchen platform and deflate it by punching

Step 12: Knead by sprinkling salt for another 5-6 minutes

Step 13: To shape the bread, dust the platform well and roll out the dough with a rolling pin to make a broad flat base

Step 14: Cut the rolled part into two equal halves and spread the sugar, raisin and cinnamon mix all over both the halves, evenly

Step 15: Reserve about a tablespoon of the cinnamon-raisin-sugar mixture to sprinkle on top

Step 16: To fold, take the first half and start folding it inwards first and then outwards like a Japanese hand Fan, or you can say the same way as we make folds for Lachcha Paratha

Step 17: Similarly fold the other half as well

Step 18: Join the first ends of both the folded dough and shape it taking the two lined dough criss-cross or two liner braid

Step 19: Make sure the dough passes well through the gap within each other

Step 20: It’s absolutely okay even if the twists are uneven

Step 21: But twists are important for the texture and aeration

Step 22: Place the dough on the baking tray, brush a little olive oil and allow it to rest again for 30 minutes

Step 23: Cover the tray with a moist kitchen towel

Step 24: Preheat the Oven at 180 degree Celsius for 10-12 minutes

Step 25: Now sprinkle cinnamon-raisin-sugar mixture on the top of the risen dough

Step 26: Bake the Whole Wheat, Eggless Cinnamon & Raisin Swirl Bread Recipe for about 30-35 minutes

Step 27: Serve warm slices of Whole Wheat Eggless Cinnamon & Raisin Swirl Bread Recipe  with Masala Chai and Phool Makhana for a healthy evening snack

Step 28: It can be served cooled to room temperature also