Homemade sweet bread (lenten)
Homemade tsoureki nistisimo
Ingredients
- 85gr fresh yeast
- 1/4 cup lukewarm water
- 2 tbsp flour
- little salt
- 2 cups yellow pumpkin, cooked and well drained
- 1,4 cups sugar
- 0,5 cups orange juice
- 0,5 cups corn oil
- zest of 1 orange
- 0,5 tbsp cooking fat
- 1 sachet machlepi (powder)
- 1 sachet cardamom (kakoule, powder)
- 1 kgr flour
- 0.5 teaspoon salt
- 2-3 tbsp of corn oil to spread with
- sesame seeds for sprinkling
Method
- Dissolve the yeast in lukewarm water and a little salt and add the 2 tablespoons flour and stir well to make porridge.
- Cover and leave until doubled in volume.
- Beat the pumpkin in the blender, the sugar, orange juice, corn oil, orange zest and the cooking fat to come together well to melt sugar.
- In a bowl sift the flour, the mahlepi and cardamom and flour and mix all together.
- Prepare a puddle / hole in the middle and add the puffed yeast and the mixture from the blender.
- Mix gently by hand until the mixture is not sticking in hands.(You may need a little more flour.)
- In a bowl put 2-3 tablespoons of the corn oil and put in the mixture and lubricate well.
- Cover the bowl with a towel and leave to rise and double in volume.
- When risen, cut strips and knit braids or small round cakes and put them in a pan with non-sticking baking paper and let them inflate again.
- With a brush and some water brush them and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake in preheated oven (resistance), at 180oC-200oC for 45 minutes.
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