Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tsourekia. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is a traditional Easter bread served in Greece to break the Lenten fast. It is traditionally braided, with a red-dyed*, hard-boiled egg inserted at one end, and then baked. Beautiful to look at - delicious to eat.
Tsourekia is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Tsourekia is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tsourekia using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tsourekia:
- Get 10 eggs
- Take 90 g fresh yeast
- Take 2 envelopes maxlepi
- Take 2.3 /4 cups sugar
- Take 1.1 /4 cup vegetable oil
- Get 1 orange peel and juice
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 2 cups warm milk
- Prepare 3 teaspoons vanilla
- Get 3 teaspoons nutmeg
- Prepare 2.1 /2 kilos self raising flour
- Prepare Sesame, Flaked almonds
- Take 1-2 egg yolks extra for brushing
Freshly ground mastic (masticha), which is an aromatic spice from Chios island, and aromatic mahlab or mahleb (mahlepi), a spice made from ground seeds of cherry, are essential to prepare this tsoureki recipe, giving the traditional Greek Easter bread its sharp and distinctive taste. You can purchase mastic and mahlepi at Greek grocers or online. Stir in yeast and wait for mixture to bubble. Like most yeast breads, tsourekia require two risings, so, although the active time you need to invest is significant, you also have to factor in the waiting around time you need for the yeast to do its thing.
Instructions to make Tsourekia:
- Mix the yeast with 1 glass warm water and 1.1/2 cups from the flour to paste set aside to rise
- Get ready everything else in a big bowl, add the risen yeast kneading until you have a soft dough, cover and let it rise double the size 2-2.1/2 hours.
- Then we make pleats long or round and let rise again,
- Brush with beaten egg yolk with few drops of water and vanilla scatter few almonds and sesame bake in preheated oven 180C, for 30 minutes, if they get dark cover with baking paper until a toothpick comes clean. Effie xx
Making tsourekia is really something that you need to schedule and plan out, so that you can enjoy the process without feeling overwhelmed. This traditional Greek Easter bread, with its ornamental red eggs, is a sweet and delicious treat that will truly be the centerpiece of the table. 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 makes fantastic French toast if you have any leftovers. Greek sweet mahlab bread - Tsoureki by Greek chef Akis Petretzikis.
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