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Gluten Free Challah

Name: Gluten Free Challah
Prep time: 1 h 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Cuisine: Other
Ingredients: 500 g Mix Bread; 50 g raisins; 1 pinch/es of salt; 3 tbsp brown sugar; 1 tbsp grated lemon peel; 1 package dry yeast; or; 21 g fresh yeast; 1 egg yolk; 30 g butter at room temperature; 450 ml lukewarm milk; For brushing:; 1 egg yolk; a little bit of milk; For sprinkling:; a little bit of pearl sugar

2 hr 25 min

As good to look at as it is to eat! The deliciously rich and eggy traditional Jewish bread that is impressive enough for special occasions and tasty enough for all others.

Although traditionally served on the Shabbat (Jewish Sabbath) and Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), you don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate the sumptuous sweet flavour and elaborate braiding of challah bread. Nor do you need a special excuse to make it. Especially not when you have this recipe for gluten free challah that brings you all the eggy goodness of the original without any of the wheat. While the three-stranded plait looks impressive in itself, if you can master a four-, five- or even six-stranded plait you will bring the house down.

Cook

Preparation

in 1 hour and 10 minutes

Cooking

in 30 minutes

Cooling

in 45 minutes

Temperature

200 °C

Put the raisins in boiling water for about 2 minutes and then drain them.
When using fresh yeast, dissolve it in the lukewarm milk and cane sugar mixture. Then continue with the next steps.
Mix the flour, salt, sugar, lemon zest and dry yeast.
Beat the egg yolk and butter with the milk and add to the flour.
Knead until it becomes a soft puffy dough.
Finally add the raisins.
Let the dough sit in a warm place for about an hour.
Divide the dough in half and form three rolls from each half. If necessary, add more flour.
Form two braids.
Place braids on a baking sheet covered with oven parchment and let sit for 45 minutes.
Brush with milk and egg yolk.
Sprinkle with sugar granules and bake in a preheated oven at 200° C for about 30 minutes.
The dough can also be used to make raisin buns.
Shape into balls with wet hands, place them on oven parchment and let sit as shown above.

Ingredients

500

Mix Bread