Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, zopf bread. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Instructions To make the dough: Warm the sour cream to lukewarm in a microwave, or over very low heat while stirring constantly. In another bowl, whisk together the flour, yeast and salt. Zopf is a traditional Swiss bread consisting of flour, butter, yeast, milk, and eggs. It is characterized by its soft texture and braided appearance, similar to the Jewish bread challah.
Zopf bread is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Zopf bread is something which I’ve 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 zopf bread using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Zopf bread:
- Prepare 250 gms flour
- Take 35 gms butter
- Take 125 ml milk
- Make ready 35 grams sugar
- Get 1/4 salt
- Prepare for brushing:
- Prepare 1 tbsp milk
- Get 1 tbsp nib sugar
Unlike most other Swiss breads it contains milk and butter, which gives it a lovely soft texture. While the supermarkets sell Zopf all week, it's traditionally a treat we Swiss only indulge in on Sundays, for breakfast or brunch. Easily Switzerland's most famous bread, Zopf is enjoyed in all regions of the country, particularly the Emmental, where butter is treasured and added to the bread with abandon, and the braids are often giant and sold by the metre. Good Zopf has a shiny, crisp exterior and an interior that manages to be both fluffy and chewy.
Steps to make Zopf bread:
- Assemble the ingredients
- In a large bowl, mix together the flour, lukewarm milk, yeast, salt, sugar and butter. Combine well to obtain a rough dough.
- Transfer to a floured surface and knead until smooth and elastic. Place in a bowl cover with plastic wrap and let it double about 3 hours.
- Grease a baking sheet, punch the dough and divide into 3 equal pieces, roll each into a long thin rope.
- Bring one of the ends together. Start braiding by braiding right end across the center rope. Now the right rope comes to the center and the center ones goes to the hand side. Now bring the left most rope on top of the center one.
- Repeat the process till you reach the end of the rope. Tuck the ends beneath the braid.
- Now brush the braid with milk and nib sugar and Cover them loosely and let sit for another 30 minutes until risen.
- Now bake them in pre heated oven 200 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Easily Switzerland's most famous bread, Zopf is enjoyed in all regions of the country, particularly the Emmental, where butter is treasured and added to the bread with abandon, and the braids are often giant and sold by the metre. Good Zopf has a shiny, crisp exterior and an interior that manages to be both fluffy and chewy. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over low heat. Take the pan off the heat and add the cold milk into the pan. Mix the yeast and sugar and add some of the lukewarm milk.
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