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An easy to follow recipe for sweet currant buns that can be eaten every day, especially during Lent. Whole wheat flour makes them more nutritious but of. In this video, I'm going to show you how to make braided buns, based on the traditional recipe for the Easter sweet bread, that we call "tsoureki".
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lenten currant buns with tsoureki flavor using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Lenten Currant Buns with Tsoureki Flavor:
- Get 600 g all purpose flour
- Get 150 g whole wheat flour
- Make ready 200 g sugar
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp ground mahleb
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground mastic
- Take As needed zest of an orange
- Get 35 g fresh yeast (or 10g dry)
- Prepare 1 tbsp sugar, for the yeast
- Make ready 360 ml warm water
- Get 50 ml olive oil
- Prepare 180 g black Corinthian currants
- Take as needed some olive oil for shaping
Chelsea buns and hot cross buns are the most well-known varieties of Traditional spiced, sticky glazed fruit buns with pastry crosses. Served as a classic Easter treat, the buns can also be enjoyed at any time of year. Tsoureki (Greek: τσουρέκι) also known as شوريك (Arabic), choreg or "chorek" (Armenian չորեկ), çörək (Azerbaijani), kozunak (Bulgarian козунак), cozonac (Romanian) or paskalya çöreği (Turkish). Few other recipes - bar the tsoureki - require you to place a whole hard-boiled egg, dyed red and with the shell intact While cardamom and mastic are sometimes used, the most popular tsoureki flavouring is mahlepi, an aromatic spice ground from the seeds of the.
Instructions to make Lenten Currant Buns with Tsoureki Flavor:
- Start by mixing yeast with 1tbsp sugar and some of the warm water. Stir well.
- In the bowl of your mixer pour the remaining water and the olive oil. Add the 200g sugar and blend for 2 min.
- Add the yeast mixture, the orange zest, mastic, mahleb & the whole wheat flour. Mix until incorporated.
- Scrape the sides of your bowl and mix in 2 spoonfuls of the all purpose flour.
- Add the currants and mix for 1 min. Gradually add the remaining flour. Knead on low speed for 6 to 8 min until you have a smooth and a bit tight dough.
- Take the dough out onto a lightly oiled surface. Shape into a ball and put it in a greased bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let it rise for 1hr in a warm spot.
- Deflate the dough. Weigh and cut it into 12 equal pieces. Smooth each piece under your palm and shape into buns. Arrange on a pepper lined baking tray.
- Bake in a preheated oven, at 180⁰C / 350 ⁰F for 20 to 22 min, until they’ re golden brown. Enjoy!
Nothing like a Currant Buns with Cream to brghten up your day. A lemony lentil soup, a restorative chicken, pasta and parmesan bowlful, and a smoky aubergine broth thick with spicy goodness. The traditional flavoring for the bread is a spice called mahlep. In a pinch you can substitute vanilla, but the mahlep is worth finding. See more ideas about Easter recipes, Food recipes and Greek easter bread.
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