Tsoureki (Sweet Easter Bread)
 
 
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Ingredients/ Συστατικά
  • 70gr./2.5 oz butter (in this recipe I used original butter)
  • 100 gr. /3.5 oz Milk
  • 200 gr. /7 oz. sugar
  • 5 gr./1 tsp mahlepi grated
  • 5 gr./1 tsp mastic grated
  • 100 gr./ 3.5 oz water
  • 40 gr./1.5 oz fresh yeast (do not use dry or you will lose all the flavor)
  • 650 gr./23 oz strong flour like Robin Hood
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 egg for coating
  • Almonds in slices for garnish
Instructions/ Εκτέλεση
  1. Put butter, milk, sugar, mahlepi and mastic in a small saucepan on medium heat and heat until the temperature arrives at 50° C/120° F.
  2. In another saucepan heat the water until lukewarm.
  3. In a bowl break the yeast, throw the water and whisk until dissolved.
  4. Throw the butter mix also and whisk until everything is incorporated.
  5. Now the fun part; take the mixer and put the hook for kneading.
  6. Throw first the flour and then the liquids and the eggs.
  7. We let the mixer work for fifteen minutes slowly at first, faster afterwards. You know it is ready when, after the 15 minutes, the dough has gathered around the hook.
  8. We flour a big bowl and throw the dough in. We turn on the oven at 30° C/86° F and put the bowl with the dough in, for 3 hours covered with a towel.
  9. After the 3 hours we take the dough out, knead a little and divide into two pieces. Each one will make one tsoureki.
  10. We cover a baking tray with parchment paper.
  11. We shape the two pieces of dough to our liking and place them on the tray.
  12. Put them uncovered in the oven again at 30° C/86° F for one hour.
  13. After that, take the egg, whisk it with 1 tbsp of water and coat the tsourekia very carefully, so as not to hurt them and lose their volume.
  14. Throw very carefully the almonds and put in the oven.
  15. Bake on a preheated oven at 175° C/350° F for 30 minutes or until golden brown. In my oven it took only 20 minutes.
  16. Let them stand and cool just a little bit.
  17. Wrap them with cling film, so as to stay soft and moist.
Notes/ Σημειώσεις
Recipe by Stelios Parliaros
Recipe by Culinary Flavors at https://www.culinaryflavors.gr/tsoureki-sweet-easter-bread/