Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, swedish semla. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
The name semla (plural, semlor) is a loan word from German Semmel, originally deriving from the Latin simila, meaning 'flour', itself a borrowing from Greek σεμίδαλις (semidalis), "groats", which was the name used for the finest quality wheat flour or semolina. In the southernmost part of Sweden and by the Swedish-speaking population in Finland, they are known as fastlagsbulle. The Swedish Semla 'Semla' in singular form or 'semlor' in plural - (and let's face it, any decent bun lover will always have at least two so call them semlor) are doughy balls of sin, oozing a slathericious almond and cardamom paste with lashings and lashings of vanilla-whipped cream atop.
Swedish Semla is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Swedish Semla is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have swedish semla using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Swedish Semla:
- Prepare Semla bun:
- Prepare 12 g active yeast
- Make ready 150 ml warm milk
- Make ready 40 g melted butter
- Prepare 1 egg
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Prepare 2 tbsp sugar
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1 tbsp ground cardamom
- Make ready 210 g flour (3,5dl)
- Prepare Filling:
- Take 50 g almond paste
- Make ready 400 ml heavy cream/whipped cream
- Prepare 50 ml milk
- Prepare Flour sugar
Then eating semla on the designated day (called fettisdagen) is a good start. It's a cardamom bun filled with marzipan and topped with whipped cream and powdered sugar. There are several variations like chocolate semla or semla without cardamom, but true. Semla are taken so seriously that as soon as they appear in bakeries, Swedish newspapers start serious tasting tests to find the best in town.
Instructions to make Swedish Semla:
- Mix melted butter and warm milk and pour into the active yeast. Stir until it well Incorporated.
- Add beaten egg, salt, sugar, baking powder, and ground cardamom.
- Pour the flour little by little. And knead for 10-15 minutes.
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap, and leave it for 40 minutes.
- After 40 minutes, knead the dough again for another 5 minutes and divide it into 6 small pieces.
- Cover it again with plastic wrap and leave it for 15 minutes.
- Bake the dough in a preheated oven of a 200 degree celcius for 8-10 minutes. Wait until it cooled down.
- Cut the top of the buns, and scrape the inner buns.
- On the other bowl, combine the scrapped buns with almond paste and milk. Adjust the milk amount as your preference.
- Fill in the empty bun with the almond filling. Top it with whipped cream. And don't forget to put the lid on.
- Pour the powder sugar on top of it and enjoy the semla!!
The good news is that you don't need to travel to Sweden to try semla, they are quite easy to make at home. Fill the Swedish semla with almond paste and whipped cream. Semla is a delicious Swedish pastry eaten leading up to and during Lent. First, let's clarify that Semlor is plural and Semla is singular. One serious semla expert is semmelmannen (the semla man): an anonymous Stockholm-based blogger who has become the go-to source for semla tips in the capital of Sweden.
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