Challah bread
If you guys, hoping some of you are visiting my blog, haven't tried baba ghanoush yet, please try it. It’s an amazing variant of our baigan Bharta π.
Just the other day someone shared that they had the opportunity to eat beet root hummus somewhere .....π. Sounds interesting....and I have already grabbed a recipe for it. Will be on the table pretty soon!
Well here we are talking about challah bread. I saw the picture of this bread in one of the baked goodies delivery group we have. The Challah bread got me interested for its shape and name. I did my research and found out - it is the religious bread eaten by Jewish people during Shabbat ( their religious) ceremony. The bread is more on sweeter side, and has some ritual of keeping one knot for offering to the God.
Isn’t that what we also do. We offer a part of food we cook during our festivals and pooja to the God. In fact my mom keeps anything she fries for the fire God - by keeping the first fried thing near the fire.
And back to the recipe - like I mentioned it’s more on sweeter side and full of eggs to give it good texture. I came across a recipe where challah was made eggless, using boiled potatoes. It was quite amazing and the bread came out very soft. However when I tried the challah with eggs and traditionally sweeter version it was awesome π. It can be clubbed with honey or maple syrup or jam!
Btw it’s called “Hallah” but spelt Challah. Well, who would know, unless it was not written out there π€£.
Recipe which I am sharing here is challah without egg. It was amazing to have it with anything as it was a plain, quite soft bread.
400 Gms All-purpose flour
150 gms Boiled potato
A pinc Salt
¼ cup Olive Oil
1 tsp Yeast
2 tbsp Sugar
250 ml Lukewarm water
Sesame seeds
(optional)
Mix flour, salt and oil together. Pulse
boiled potatoes in the mixer with some water. Add Yeast. Now knead the whole
thing together using left water. Kept it for proofing. Once it is doubled in
size knead it for 5 minutes and adjust it a bit if it is sticky.
Once the dough is ready, make three equal portions. Roll each one into a long log and braid it. I think this part was interesting but needs a bit of a practice. Finally I managed with a okaish shape. With this dough I ended up making 2 Challah’s….so Good!!
Shabbat Shalom!! π
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