Recipe for Saffron Infused Sweet Bread with Raisins and Cranberries
Baking bread is easy. If you learn some basics of bread baking, you can be as creative as you want to. I love baking bread at home. The lovely aroma of freshly baked bread gives a beautiful feeling of being at home, with your loved ones, in your comfort zone.
I recently shared Masala Bread, Pav Bread, Beetroot Bread, Spinach Bread, Spring Onion Pesto and Asparagus Bread, and Carrot and Zucchini Bread recipes.
Today, I am sharing the recipe for Saffron Infused Sweet Bread with Raisins and Cranberries.
So, let’s start:
Kitchen Equipment:
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- Bread Mould: https://amzn.to/3HkoW0x
Ingredients needed for Saffron Infused Sweet Bread with Raisins and Cranberries:
- 500 gm Refined Flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 100 gm Sugar
- 7 gm Instant Yeast
- 60 ml Milk
- 100 gm Raisins and Cranberries
- 30 Strands Saffron
- 3 tbsp Oil
- Water; for kneading
Method to make Saffron Infused Sweet Bread with Raisins and Cranberries:
- Heat the milk till it becomes lukewarm. To this, add saffron, sugar and yeast. Let this rest for a minute or two.


- In a mixing bowl, combine flour and salt.

- To this, add the milk mixture. Add raisins and cranberries.

- Mix well. Add water, and knead into a smooth dough.

- Cover and rest this dough till it doubles in size ( Roughly about an hour when kept in a warm place).

- When it doubles in size, knock it, add oil and knead once again. Now transfer this dough to a bread mould. Keep it again in a warm place for about 30 minutes. The dough will rise again.

- Preheat the oven to 200 deg C for 10 minutes. Bake the bread for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, remove the bread from the oven and let it rest in the bread mould for about 10 minutes. Then remove it and let it cool completely on a wire rack.

- Slice it when the bread has cooled completely.

Here is the recipe in printable format:

Saffron-Infused Sweet Bread with Raisins and Cranberries
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Cooking Pot
- Bread Mould
Ingredients
- 500 gm Refined Flour
- 1 tsp Salt
- 100 gm Sugar
- 7 gm Instant Yeast
- 60 ml Milk
- 100 gm Raisins and Cranberries
- 30 Strands Saffron
- 3 tbsp Oil
- Water; for kneading
Instructions
- Heat the milk till it becomes lukewarm. To this, add saffron, sugar and yeast.
- Let this rest for a minute or two.
- In a mixing bowl, combine flour and salt.
- To this, add the milk mixture.
- Add raisins and cranberries.
- Mix well. Add water, and knead into a smooth dough.
- Cover and rest this dough till it doubles in size ( Roughly about an hour when kept in a warm place).
- When it doubles in size, knock it, add oil and knead once again. Now transfer this dough to a bread mould.
- Keep it again in a warm place for about 30 minutes. The dough will rise again.
- Preheat the oven to 200 deg C for 10 minutes.
- Bake the bread for 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes, remove the bread from the oven and let it rest in the bread mould for about 10 minutes.
- Then remove it and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
- Slice it when the bread has cooled completely.
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