Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, zopf - swiss sunday bread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
How to make the Swiss Sunday bread Zopf including recipe and video on how to braid. Today there is always a fresh loaf of golden Zopf on our Sunday breakfast table, although it isn't always homemade. If I do bake, I make sure to double the ingredients to make two loaves, one to eat and one to freeze.
Zopf - Swiss Sunday bread is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Zopf - Swiss Sunday bread is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have zopf - swiss sunday bread using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Zopf - Swiss Sunday bread:
- Get 500 grams strong white flour
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 75 grams unsalted butter, softened
- Take 7 grams instant yeast
- Prepare 250 ml milk, lukewarm
- Take 1 egg
This will give the bread a shiny, golden brown finish. Put the flour into a large bowl and add the salt to one side of the flour, the yeast on the opposite side, and the butter (chopped into chunks) into the middle. This is the bread my mom would bake on special occasions. What a treat it was for us to eat it with either honey, preserves or Nutella.
Instructions to make Zopf - Swiss Sunday bread:
- Put the flour into a large bowl and add the salt to one side of the flour, the yeast on the opposite side, and the butter (chopped into chunks) into the middle.
- Pour in three quarters of your warm milk into the flour and work it into a rough dough, adding the rest of the milk as needed. Make sure you work the butter through the dough.
- Tip your rough dough onto a clean surface and knead for 8-10 minutes, until the dough has formed a smooth skin and is pliable enough that you can stretch it out thinly enough to see light through it without the dough tearing (the window pane effect)
- Rinse out your original bowl and then lightly oil the inside of the bowl and put your dough inside to rise. Place a damp cloth over the bowl to stop a skin from forming on the dough.
- Once the dough has risen to double the original size (this will take at least an hour) divide your dough in half and then roll into two long strands. Cross the strands over each other to make a + shape, then braid the dough by folding each strand over. e.g. If your North/South strand is the base, fold the ends over so South now points North and vice versa, then do the same for your East/West strand. As you do this, the braid will form and you can eventually tuck the ends together.
- Put your braided loaf onto a lined baking tray and place inside a plastic bag to prove for another hour. Meanwhile, remember to preheat your oven to 200° Celsius
- When the dough has doubled in size, crack your egg into a small bowl or mug, lightly whisk and then brush over the outside of the bread.
- Bake at 200° for ~ 30 minutes or until the crust is a deep golden brown. The egg will make it brown more quickly, so I don't use the top element in the oven when baking this bread. Cool the bread on a wire rack, and then enjoy!
Just experimented making… It is a soft bread, made with milk as well as butter and egg, similar to a French brioche or the traditional Challah bread. You could use this recipe to make cinnamon rolls or Kanelbulle as they are called in Sweden. When it comes to shaping, the variations are endless, especially if you involve children. Zopf is the favorite bread of my younger son, so he was very supportive of this idea. He promised his friends in school to bring an entire loaf for lunch It seems to me that adding eggs makes Zopf heavier and gives it the crumb structure I like.
So that is going to wrap this up with this exceptional food zopf - swiss sunday bread recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m confident that you can make this at home. There is gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!
