Name: Crocodile veggie loaf recipe by Mona Bassi at BetterButter
Prep time: 120 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 180 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Maida - 200g; Salt pepper; Chilled butter -100g; Chilled water; For stuffing; Boiled potatoes; Carrot chopped; Beans chopped; Salt; Nutmeg powder; Bread crumps; pepper; Grated cheese

Instructions

Take a bowl add maida and chilled butter and mix it well with your fingers. Add salt pepper and add chilled water and make a soft dough. Keep it in the freezer for 15 minutes.
For stuffing - In a bowl add boiled potatoes and mash it.
Add carrot beans, salt pepper, nutmeg powder and mix it well. Add grated cheese and mix it well, add bread crumbs. The batter should be dry.
Now roll the dough with the help of rolling pin to rectangle shape. Sheet should be thick
Add potato mixture in the middle of sheet leaving more space at one end for crocodile face, using a knife, cut the dough into strips.
Five or six strips are fine on both side, fold 1 strip over the filling and do the same on the other side, the filling is encased in pastry sheet.
Now shape the crocodile head, fold into triangle, cut the excess dough and press down to flatten and let the filling come out so that it fills the head fold over to cover the filling and form a triangle.
cut off the tip of the head and shape into square Then roll the piece of dough into two small balls for the eyes
For tail Cut the dough into round and make a tail, cut out four squares for the remaining dough, cut first into trapezoids and cut off small triangle to resemble the crocodile claws and make four feets
Now transfer the crocodile loaf into baking tray arranged the feet and brush the pastry with the beaten butter
Snip the dough with the tips of a pair of scissor to create crocodile skin Bake crocodile for about 45 min at 200 C

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