Panettone (Italian Christmas Bread) - Food Wishes

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil is lower in saturated fat.

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: brown sugar

Honey is a natural sweetener.

Mix flour and water together to create a starter.

Add sourdough starter to the flour and water mixture and stir.

Cover the mixture and leave it at room temperature overnight.

Soak chopped dried fruit in white rum overnight, stirring occasionally.

Dissolve a package of yeast in very warm water and let it sit for about ten minutes.

Add eggs, white sugar, vanilla extract, orange zest, and lemon zest to the yeast mixture and mix.

Add the prepared starter and flour to the mixture and knead with a dough hook in a stand mixer.

Add salt after starting to knead and continue kneading for about ten minutes until smooth and elastic.

Add room-temperature butter and knead for another five minutes until fully incorporated.

Transfer the dough to a work surface and fold it into a ball shape using damp fingers and a bench scraper.

Cover the dough and let it rise until doubled in size, which may take about three hours.

Deflate the dough and shape it back into a ball.

Transfer the dough into a plastic bag and refrigerate it overnight for flavor development.

Remove the dough from the bag and press it into a square or rectangle shape.

Sprinkle flour on the dough and roll it out thinner with a rolling pin.

Scatter the soaked dried fruit over the rolled-out dough and roll it up tightly.

Shape the ends of the rolled dough towards the middle to form a round shape.

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