Tsoureki (Greek Easter bread)

By: Paul Hollywood From: Good Food Live

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Prep time:
30 min, plus 2 hrs rising
Cook time:
30 min
Serves:
Makes 1 loaf

Celebrate Easter this year with Paul Hollywood's version of a traditional Greek treat - a fragrant loaf decorated with dyed eggs

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Ingredients

  • 500 g strong bread flour
  • 90 g sugar
  • 90 g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 15 g salt
  • 30 g dried yeast
  • 180 ml water
  • 180 ml milk
  • grated zest of 2 oranges
  • 1 pinch of ground mahleb
  • 1 pinch of ground mastic
  • 1 pinch of ground cinnamon
  • 100 g sultanas
  • eggs, beaten for egg wash
  • 3 hard-boiled eggs, dyed red
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Method

1. In a mixing bowl place the flour, sugar, butter, eggs, salt, yeast, water, milk, orange zest, mahleb, mastic and cinnamon. Mix together well and form into a dough.

2. Knead for four minutes on a lightly flowered surface.

3. Return dough to bowl and leave to rise for 1 hour

4. Add the sultanas to the dough and divide dough into 3 equal parts.

5. Form the three dough portions into three 'strands' and plait together to form a 3 strand plait-shaped loaf.

6. Brush with beaten egg, place on a lined baking sheet and set aside to rise for 1 hour.

7. Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas 6.

8. Place the red-dyed eggs evenly down the centre of the plait, pressing their bases into the dough.

9. Bake the loaf for 25-30 minutes until golden brown. Remove and cool on a wire rack.

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So far as 'traditional' tsourekia go, and based on my ten years in Greece, cinnamon and dried fruit are a departure. Incidentally, I'm really impressed that this recipe calls for mahlepi and mastiha; indispensable to a traditional tsoureki. Having said that, I'm no purist and I'm sure dried fruit suits as it does in so many other sweet yeasty doughy bakery goods. Not sure about cinnamon given that it'll be competing with, than complementing, the mahlepi and the mastiha.

andrewlondon79 andrewlondon79  Posted 22 Apr 2012 5:24 PM
 

the traditional Greek Easter Bread does not have cinnamon either. maybe orange zest or vanilla or cardamom but defenately not sultanas or cinnamon.

AgelikiBK AgelikiBK  Posted 16 Apr 2011 4:43 AM
 

the traditional greek easter bread does not have sultanas.

StellaK18149 StellaK18149  Posted 13 Apr 2011 5:46 AM