Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, new year’s day traditional tsoureki bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The best way to welcome the new year, is a large piece of this marvelous sweet bread! It is so soft and tasty, you won't even care whether you found the. While this Greek Easter bread (tsoureki) is traditionally served in Easter and the three braids symbolise the Holy Trinity, but it is also very popular throughout the year as a delicious mid day snack, breakfast or tea or coffee companion.
New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have new year’s day traditional tsoureki bread using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread:
- Make ready 250 ml 35% fat whipping cream, room temp
- Make ready 250 g sugar, granulated
- Take 3 large eggs
- Prepare 60 g butter, room temperature
- Get 850 g strong flour
- Take 2 tsp ground mahleb
- Get 1 tsp ground mastic
- Make ready 100 ml warm water
- Get 1 tbsp sugar, for the yeast
- Make ready 60 g fresh yeast
- Make ready 1 egg yolk, for eggwash
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp water, for eggwash
- Make ready 1/4 tsp vanilla or orange extract
- Make ready 1 coin & aluminum foil
The bread is often braided with three strands to represent the holy trinity, formed into a circle as a reference to life and the eggs. Tsoureki is the traditional Greek Easter bread that's a deliciously soft, gently sweet yeast bread similar to brioche or challah but with it's own distinctive flavor. It's wonderful enjoyed on it's own when fresh and leftovers make fantastic French toast. This post may contain affiliate links, where we earn.
Instructions to make New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread:
- Combine yeast,1 tbsp sugar and water. Set aside.
- In the bowl of your mixer, beat sugar and eggs on high speed for 5 min. Add the whipping cream and the yeast mixture. Mix until incorporated.
- In a separate bowl whisk flour, mahleb & mastic. Gradually add the flour mixture and knead on medium speed for about 10min.
- Add the butter. Knead until completely incorporated.
- Put the dough into a well oiled bowl. Cover with plastic wrap. Place it in a warm spot and let it rise for 90 min.
- Oil your hands lightly and deflate the dough. Line a round baking pan (34cm / 13.3”) with parchment paper. Flip the bowl and let the dough drop into the baking pan.
- Oil your hands and press the dough outward to spread it evenly in the pan. Wrap the coin with the aluminum foil and push it into the dough. Break any air bubbles with a wooden skewer.
- Cover with plastic wrap and place it in a warm spot to rise again, for 45 min
- Mix the egg yolk with the water & the orange (or vanilla) extract. Brush gently the whole surface.
- You can leave it plain and decorate it with your favourite glaze or sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake in a preheated oven, at 170⁰C / 325⁰F for 35 to 40 min, until a skewer comes out clean. Enjoy!
Over the last few years, I have added more traditional Easter breads to my repertoire: Italian This sweet bread cannot be called tsoureki because it is missing the key ingredient- mahlepi. Melanie, I actually did quite a bit of research on Greek Easter bread (as I do for anything new that I make). I also use this recipe to make New Year Vasilopita!! This is my first attempt ever at making these.since my mother couldn't bake this Easter i decided to have a go at it.not as difficult as i thought, and very very yummy. The red Easter eggs that make this traditional bread so special are for decorative purposes only.
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