Greek Easter bread

Description

This bread turns out fluffy and soft, with lemon and a light sweet-spicy scent. For him, knead the dough is rich and sweet, the same as the traditional cakes. The recipe I read in Internet, as well as cakes to eat all the Easter week of Radonitsa, I decided to cook the bread.

Ingredients

Flour

600 g
Yolk egg

5 piece
Sugar

3 Tbsp
Yeast

7 g
Milk

240 ml
Butter

125 g
Lemon peel

1 piece
Candied

100 g
Vegetable oil

2 Tbsp
Salt

0.5 tsp
Anis

1 tsp
Sesame

1 Tbsp
Chicken egg

10 piece

Cooking

I used these products

The universal brown sugar TM "Mistral".

Prepare the sourdough. In warm milk add the yeast, 1 teaspoon sugar, 2 tablespoons flour, all mix well, cover with a towel or cloth and leave for 40 minutes in a warm place.

Lemon need to parboil, dry cloth, then cut him with the zest and slice it thin strips.

In a water bath melt the butter.

Beat the egg yolks and sugar, until fully rastvoreniya sugar.

When the dough will increase 2-3 times

Add to it the beaten egg yolks,

Butter ( not hot, but room temperature), salt,

Anise, lemon zest, mix everything, add 200 g of flour, stir again.

Then add finely chopped candied fruit and remaining flour.

Knead the dough. That's what it turns out.

We shift the dough in a pan greased with vegetable oil to keep it from sticking to the walls, and leave in a warm place for 1.5 - 2 hours.

This is the dough after 1.5 hours, obtinem it and leave for another 1.5 - 2 hours.

This dough rose a second time.

Now divide it into four parts.

In three parts, roll out bundles had a length of about 50 cm, weave them into a "pigtail" and laid it on the baking tray lined with parchment paper and greased with vegetable oil.

The fourth piece, I rolled into a bundle and put on top around the perimeter of the braids as a little do not understand the text of the recipe. In fact, I had to just roll out the dough in the form of a bar of length equal to the length of the pigtail, and put it on top, slightly pressing his hand, so the bread turns out neater and more beautiful.

Mark out approximately where we are "nests" for the eggs. Dip well in oil boiled, painted eggs and put them into "nests", as far as possible.

Sprinkle with the workpiece with water or lubricated with egg yolk, sprinkle with sesame seeds, leave for 20 minutes for proofing. Then send in a pre-heated to 180 degrees oven. I have this bread was baked in 35 minutes.

Ready bread remove from the oven, allow it to cool.

Get not colored eggs and replace them on Easter. In the end it turns out that such a smart and additionally sweet and fragrant bread.

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