Serrano and mozzarella brioche couronne

This week on the Great British blogger off we are returning to bread once more this week will see a selection from

signature tea loaves
technical couronne
showstopper sweet buns

Wanting to push myself and learn yet another new thing i went for the couronne which took me a while to find out what it was and it is a twisted bread that's like a crown.  As my hubby is fond of all things savory mores the pity i am making a Serrano and mozzarella brioche couronne.

This has to be one of the lightest doughs i have ever worked with.

Ingredients

10g yeast
170ml warm milk
1 teaspoon honey
add all of the above together to activate

500g strong white flour
10g salt
4 eggs
add the above plus the yeast milk together mix till a silky dough

250g butter
gradully add the butter the leave to prove i find it rather handy having a helper with small fingers who can do this job

10 slices of Serrano
125g mozzarella
Fresh basil
knock back dough and then pull out to 1 1/2 cm and line with Serrano and mozzarella and scatter basil.

Then roll up the dough into a long sausage and cut in half length ways so there are 2 long strips and then twist tightly together  to make a rope then join the two ends up to make a ring or crown

leave to prove for a further 1/1/2 hours then brush with egg and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese then cook at 200c for 25 mins its best not to cook this in a fan assisted oven and luckily for me my oven does all sorts of settings and i choose the setting where the heat rises from the bottom of the oven.  i also put a pan of water at the bottom of the oven to create a bit of steam.

Once again this is linking up with the Great blogger bake off Helen and Jenny