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Challah (traditional Jewish celebratory plaited loaf)


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Ingredients

1 portion(s)

Dough

  • 500 grams Flour, Plain, plus extra
  • 280 grams water
  • 9 grams dried instant yeast, or 1 1/2 sachets
  • 85 grams sugar raw
  • 1 teaspoons salt
  • 1 egg
  • 65 grams oil
  • 1 egg, for glazing
  • poppy or sesame seeds
  • 6
    40min
    Preparation 10min
    Baking/Cooking
  • 7
    easy
    Preparation
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      TM 5
      If you are using a Thermomix® TM6 measuring cup with your Thermomix® TM5:
      For cooking (simmering) at temperatures of 95°C or above (200°F), the simmering basket should always be used instead of the TM6 measuring cup, as the TM6 measuring cup fits tightly in the lid. The simmering basket rests loosely on top, is steam-permeable, and also prevents food spatter from the mixing bowl.
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Recipe's preparation

    Prepare the Dough
  1. Dough modePlace water, yeast and sugar into the Thermomix bowl,Closed lid.
    Stir Gentle stir setting at speed 2, at 37 degrees for 3 minutes.
    Add eggs, sugar, salt and oil.
    Stir Gentle stir settingat speed 3 for 10 seconds.
    Add flour, stir Gentle stir setting to combine, speed 3 for approx 30 seconds.
    Kneed Dough mode for 3 minutes.
  2. Rise
  3. Turn the dough into an oiled bowl, cover and allow to rise until doubled in size.
    This can take an hour or two on the kitchen bench top.
    If you have an oven with a dough setting, the dough can be placed inside the oven, set at 37degrees, to rise.
  4. Shape and Second Rise
  5. This recipe makes enough dough for one large loaf or two smaller loaves.
    It is a sticky dough. Turn dough on a very well floured surface.
    Shape the dough into the number of loaves you wish to bake.
    Plaited loaves are traditional for Challah baking.
    Place loaves on lined baking trays.
    Brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with sesame or poppy seeds or with raw sugar at Rosh Hashana time.
    Set aside to rise again - approximately 30 -45 mins on the kitchen bench.
  6. Bake
  7. Bake loaves at 180 degrees for approximately 30 minutes or until golden brown. When done, the challah will sound hollow when tapped on the base.
    Remove from oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
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Tip

This recipe has been adapted for Thermomix from the recipe appearing in the Monday Morning Cooking Club cookbook, entitled Challah From Heaven.
Challah can be made the day before serving. It also can be made in advance and frozen.
Leftovers make amazing Bread and Butter pudding and French Toast.


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