Fluffy tsourekia

Name: Fluffy tsourekia
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 kg strong flour; 6 eggs at room temperature; 160 g melted butter; 3 satchels dry yeast; 1/2 l warm milk (full-fat); 1 satchel ground mahlab; zest of 2 oranges; 1 satchel ground mastic; 500 g sifted icing sugar; egg yolk thinned with water for brushing; sesame seeds

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Fluffy, soft and fragrant tsourekia for any time and of course, for Easter! Astound friends and relatives with this recipe!

Recipe by ΠΕΤΑΛΟΥΔΙΤΣΑ

Fluffy, soft and fragrant tsourekia for any time and of course, for Easter! Astound friends and relatives with this recipe!

Recipe by ΠΕΤΑΛΟΥΔΙΤΣΑ

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

Fluffy, soft and fragrant tsourekia for any time and of course, for Easter! Astound friends and relatives with this recipe!

Recipe by ΠΕΤΑΛΟΥΔΙΤΣΑ

Fluffy, soft and fragrant tsourekia for any time and of course, for Easter! Astound friends and relatives with this recipe!

Recipe by ΠΕΤΑΛΟΥΔΙΤΣΑ

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Ingredients

2 kgstrong flour
6eggs at room temperature
160 gmelted butter
3satchels dry yeast
1/2 lwarm milk (full-fat)
1satchel ground mahlab
zest of 2 oranges
1satchel ground mastic
500 gsifted icing sugar
egg yolk thinned with water for brushing
sesame seeds

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Steps

1

Beat the eggs with the icing sugar for 3 minutes in a large bowl.
2

Melt the yeast in the warm milk and add to the bowl.
3

Add the melted butter.
4

Add the flavors (mahlab, zest, mastic).
5

Finally add the flour little by little roughly working the dough by hand so that the flour is integrated.
6

Make the dough into a ball and cover with a towel or blanket.
7

Leave in the oven at 30 degrees for about 2 hours.
8

Shape it into individual mini tsourekia shaped as croissants, snails or braids.
9

Spread them on a buttered baking tray, cover them once more and leave them in the warm oven (30 degrees) for an additional hour.
10

Brush them with the thinned yolk and if you like, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
11

Bake them at 180 degrees for 50 minutes or until they are golden brown.