Challah - Breadman Talking
Recipe: #29335
April 10, 2018
Categories: Breads, Brunch, Sunday Dinner, Oven Bake, Kosher, Non-Dairy Vegetarian, Yeast Bread, Flour, more
"This is an easy challah bread recipe by the Breadman, who used to post on a blog by the same name. Some alternatives: use honey or brown sugar instead of white sugar, use melted butter or margarine instead of oil, mix some raisins in after the first rise. I use quick rise yeast to save on time."
Original is 6 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (165 g)
- Calories 412.8
- Total Fat - 12.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.2 g
- Cholesterol - 65.5 mg
- Sodium - 407.2 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 66.9 g
- Dietary Fiber - 9.1 g
- Sugars - 8.7 g
- Protein - 13 g
- Calcium - 38.7 mg
- Iron - 3.2 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0.6 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Dissolve the sugar in the water then mix in and dissolve the yeast - Let it stand for about 10 minutes until it becomes frothy.
Step 2
Mix in 1 cup of the flour until smooth - Then mix in the egg and the oil and finally the salt.
Step 3
Add flour 1 cup at a time until you have a smooth very slightly sticky dough - Knead the dough for a few minutes until nice and smooth - Add a little flour as necessary but make sure the dough stays a little sticky(If you add too much the bread will be heavy and dense).
Step 4
Move the dough to an oiled bowl turning in the bowl to coat the dough with oil, then cover and place in a warm place until doubles ( about 1 1/2 hours).
Step 5
Remove the dough from the bowl, punch down, and then shape into loaves- divide the dough into two halves then each half into 3 or 4 pieces, Each piece becomes a 'snake' which I then braid into loaves.
Step 6
Place the shaped loaves onto an oiled baking sheet, Cover and let rise until about doubled- This will take about 45 minutes.
Step 7
About 15 minutes before the bread finishes rising, start to preheat the oven to 350F.
Step 8
Brush loaves with beaten egg yolk before placing in the oven.
Step 9
When the bread is finished rising place in the center of the oven for about 22 minutes or so - The bread will get quite brown- It is done when you tap it on the bottom and it sounds hollow.
Step 10
Cool on a rack.
Tips
No special items needed.
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