New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread
New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread

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New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread is something that I have loved my entire life.

The best way to welcome the new year, is a large piece of this marvelous sweet bread! The best way to welcome the new year, is a large piece of this marvelous sweet bread! While this Greek Easter bread (tsoureki) is traditionally served in Easter and the three braids symbolise the Holy Trinity, but it is also very popular throughout the year as a delicious mid day snack, breakfast or tea or coffee companion.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have new year’s day traditional tsoureki bread using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread:
  1. Take 250 ml 35% fat whipping cream, room temp
  2. Make ready 250 g sugar, granulated
  3. Get 3 large eggs
  4. Make ready 60 g butter, room temperature
  5. Prepare 850 g strong flour
  6. Prepare 2 tsp ground mahleb
  7. Make ready 1 tsp ground mastic
  8. Prepare 100 ml warm water
  9. Get 1 tbsp sugar, for the yeast
  10. Make ready 60 g fresh yeast
  11. Prepare 1 egg yolk, for eggwash
  12. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp water, for eggwash
  13. Prepare 1/4 tsp vanilla or orange extract
  14. Prepare 1 coin & aluminum foil

No matter what shape you choose, just make sure to give the bread a super-generous, over-the-top coating of sesame seeds, not just a few dainty sprinkles. This is a traditional Easter bread served in Greece to break the Lenten fast. It is traditionally braided, with a red-dyed*, hard-boiled egg inserted at one end I like to eat it most at breakfast, with a piece of graviera (a Greek cheese resembling Swiss) and a huge glass of ice-cold milk. Every family has their own version of this special recipe, and this version has been enjoyed by my family for many, many years.

Steps to make New Year’s Day Traditional Tsoureki Bread:
  1. Combine yeast,1 tbsp sugar and water. Set aside.
  2. In the bowl of your mixer, beat sugar and eggs on high speed for 5 min. Add the whipping cream and the yeast mixture. Mix until incorporated.
  3. In a separate bowl whisk flour, mahleb & mastic. Gradually add the flour mixture and knead on medium speed for about 10min.
  4. Add the butter. Knead until completely incorporated.
  5. Put the dough into a well oiled bowl. Cover with plastic wrap. Place it in a warm spot and let it rise for 90 min.
  6. Oil your hands lightly and deflate the dough. Line a round baking pan (34cm / 13.3”) with parchment paper. Flip the bowl and let the dough drop into the baking pan.
  7. Oil your hands and press the dough outward to spread it evenly in the pan. Wrap the coin with the aluminum foil and push it into the dough. Break any air bubbles with a wooden skewer.
  8. Cover with plastic wrap and place it in a warm spot to rise again, for 45 min
  9. Mix the egg yolk with the water & the orange (or vanilla) extract. Brush gently the whole surface.
  10. You can leave it plain and decorate it with your favourite glaze or sprinkle with sesame seeds.
  11. Bake in a preheated oven, at 170⁰C / 325⁰F for 35 to 40 min, until a skewer comes out clean. Enjoy!

Tsoureki is a traditional Greek Easter bread characterized by its braided shape, which can be either circular or elongated like a loaf. Tradition says that tsoureki should be braided in three strands - one for each aspect of the Trinity. The bread is usually made with milk, eggs, butter, and flavorings such. This is a delicious Greek bread that is traditionally made at Greek Easter and for New Year's. For Easter, the bread is baked with hard-boiled red eggs that accompany the feast celebrating the I'll have to find mahlepi and experience your traditional spring-scented tsoureki.

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