Ingredients:

• 600g flour (+ 100 g for finishing)
• 25 g of fresh yeast
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 4 oz of water
• 1 teaspoon oil for
• Red tape:  1 tablespoon red pepper
• Green tape: 2 tablespoons blanched, chopped spinach
• Coating: a piece of butter
• Crumble the yeast; add sugar, a spoon of flour and a little lukewarm water.

Procedure:

1. In a bowl mix well flour and salt, add the lukewarm water with yeast. Knead dough with those ingredients.
2. Cover the dough to rise.  
3. Knead again the dough that has previously risen, and leave it to rise again (this time you’ll need less time). After that, divide the dough into two equal parts.
4. Divide one half into two parts.
5. From one half of the dough form small ball. Press gently the ball with hands and place it in a round baking pan.  Smear the dough with one teaspoon dough and extend it to the pan edges. In one fourth of the dough that you have separated add red pepper along with little more flour; knead until the dough receives homogenous color.  In the other fourth of the dough add spinach and knead well.
6. From each, the red and green dough make 5 little balls. 
7. On the basic dough arrange the red and green ribbon and plait a braid.
8. Cover the dough in the pan and leave it to rise again; meanwhile preheat the oven to 220 C.  Smear the bread with water using little brush and put it in the preheated oven.  
9. After 15 minutes decrease the temperature and continue baking for another 30 minutes.
10. After removing from the oven, coil the bread into kitchen rag. If you want smear the bread with little butter.  
11. After cooling, cut the bread in size you want and serve. 

Enjoy!