Challah

Name: Challah
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 kilo of flour; 4 tablespoons sugar (sprinkle in the middle of the pulp); 1.5 tablespoons salt (sprinkle on the sides of the pulp); 1.5-3 tablespoons dried yeast (sprinkle in the middle of the pulp); 2-2.5 cups lukewarm water; Knead the dough for 2 minutes and add 3 tablespoons of regular oil.

by Mormor3030

4 challah

50 min

I learned to make this recipe from my friend, who regularly bakes it every Friday for Shabbat. Challah is bread baked at home, in a home oven, and it is fun to eat it with everything: hummus, tahini, yellow cheese, butter, jam and lots of other options.

A little tip: instead of applying the challah with egg and then putting sesame seeds on top, it is possible to prepare the challah, then take a little flour and sift it over the top so that it comes out a little dusty, or just put any other topping you want to make it your own!

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Recipe details

Yield 4 challah
Time spent: Prep time: 30 Minutes Cook time: 20 Minutes Total time: 50 min

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Instructions

Then knead for at least 10 more minutes until you get a smooth dough.
Let the dough rise for about 30/60 minutes in a closed bowl with plastic wrap on top.
Shape the dough into desired shapes and let it rise again for another half hour.
Then apply the top of the dough using an egg with a little water and put sesame/poppy seeds on top.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees C°.
Put the challahs in the oven for 20-30 minutes. A good way of telling if it is baked properly is to open the oven after about 17 minutes and lifting the challahs slightly, to check if the bottom is golden.
Important!
After baking- cover the baking tray & made challah with a towel.
If you want to keep the challah after baking, cool down until fully cooled, wrap in plastic wrap and put in the freezer.

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Pat on May 05, 2021

How many cups in a kilo of flour?
Thanks

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- Joan Morgan on May 06, 2021
  
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- Mormor3030 on May 14, 2021
  
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Benesse on May 06, 2021

The instructions are missing a few steps. You go from ingredients to knead the dough. How do you combine the ingredients...what first, second, etc?

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- Iammacha on May 07, 2021
  
  She tells you. It’s the order listed. Make a pile with the flour then make a nice dent/bowl in the middle and add the other ingredients as she says on each. By time you are at the water you will be mixing it and fast that will turn to kneading
  
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- Guy on May 07, 2021
  
  I do not see any such instructions, like there is a step missing.
  
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- Theresa Lampitoc on May 07, 2021
  
  Please re-read the ingredient list carefully....
  
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- Benesse on May 07, 2021
  
  OK, I see the directions in parenthesis after each ingredient. The question still remains: Once you've sprinkled this and that in the middle and around the "pulp" (is that the flour mound?) it seem you leave it as is until you add water and only then you mix it all together with your hands and make it into a dough?
  
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