How to make whole wheat braided bread

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  1. Put the ingredients for the dough except butter into the bread bucket, salt and Put the sugar and yeast diagonally, put the yeast on top, start the bread machine and start kneading the dough.

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  2. Knead the dough for half an hour and add softened butter.

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  3. Knead the dough for another half an hour to reach the film-forming state, and knead the dough for a total of one hour..

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  4. Ferment directly in the bread barrel until it is 2.5 times the size of the original dough, and start the bread again Knead the dough with a machine for a few minutes, which is equivalent to deflating the dough.

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  5. Divide the deflated dough evenly into 12 portions, knead evenly and rest for 20 minutes.

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  6. Put the relaxed dough into groups of three and roll them into long strips.

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  7.Cross the three strips together.

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  8.Braid from the middle to both sides.

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  9.The braided bread should be thicker in the middle and slightly thinner on both sides.

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  10. Braid the braids one by one and place them in the baking pan.

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  11. Ferment again until doubled in size.

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  12. Brush the surface thinly with egg wash and sprinkle with almond slices.(You can also sprinkle some sesame seeds if you don’t have almonds)

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  13.Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake on the middle rack About 20 minutes.

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  14.Ding ~ it’s out!

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  15.Picture of the finished product.