SWEET CHALLAH
This is a sweet bread that is really easy to make. It is so good that a 30-year-old man who was a guest at my Shabbat Table actually giggled when he ate it. The doughier you want the bread to be, the shorter you should bake it.
Provided by SuperRebbetzin
Categories Bread Yeast Bread Recipes Egg Challah Recipes
Time 3h
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Mix the yeast, 1/3 cup of sugar, and warm water together in a large bowl, stir to dissolve the sugar, and let the mixture stand until a creamy layer forms on top, about 5 minutes. Stir in 3 cups of flour to make a loose sponge.
- In a separate bowl, beat 4 eggs, 1/2 cup of vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of salt, and 1 cup of sugar together, and stir the egg mixture into the yeast-flour mixture until well combined. Continue mixing in flour, 1 cup at a time, up to 9 total cups. Dough should be slightly sticky, but not so wet that it leaves dough stuck to your hands.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface, and knead for 5 minutes to develop gluten. Form the dough into a compact round shape, and place in an oiled bowl. Turn the dough over several times in the bowl to oil the surface of the dough, cover the bowl with a cloth, and let rise in a warm area until doubled in size, about 1 hour. Punch down the dough and knead for another 5 minutes, until smooth and elastic.
- Grease baking sheets, or line with parchment paper. To make egg glaze, whisk together 1 egg, 1 teaspoon oil, 2 teaspoons sugar, and 1 teaspoon of water in a small bowl, and refrigerate until needed.
- Cut the dough into 4 pieces, and cut each piece into 3 smaller pieces for a 3-strand braided loaf. Working on a floured surface, roll the small dough pieces into ropes about the thickness of your thumb and about 12 inches long. Ropes should be fatter in the middle and thinner at the ends. Pinch 3 ropes together at the top and braid them. Starting with the strand to the right, move it to the left over the middle strand (that strand becomes the new middle strand.) Take the strand farthest to the left, and move it over the new middle strand. Continue braiding, alternating sides each time, until the loaf is braided, and pinch the ends together and fold them underneath for a neat look. Place the loaves onto the prepared baking sheets, and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 30 to 45 minutes. Brush a coating of egg glaze onto the tops of the bread, and reserve the remaining glaze.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Bake the bread in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, remove from the oven, and brush another coating of glaze onto the bread. Return to the oven, and bake until the tops are shiny and golden brown, 5 to 10 more minutes. Let cool before cutting.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 327.8 calories, Carbohydrate 57 g, Cholesterol 46.5 mg, Fat 7.5 g, Fiber 1.6 g, Protein 7.6 g, SaturatedFat 1.4 g, Sodium 368.5 mg, Sugar 14 g
SIMPLE SWEET CHALLAH BREAD (THE WAY IT SHOULD BE)
I love challah, I was raised Jewish and literally crave this bread all the time. Only problem is, it is SO expensive! So I searched and literally couldn't find a legit recipe: they want it to cook for an hour (what!), it wasn't eggy enough, no honey?? I could go on. So to remedy that, I made my own! It's light and dense at the...
Provided by Ashley Burnam
Categories Other Breads
Time 2h30m
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- 1. Note: I used a stand mixer for this recipe but it can easily be done by hand or with a hand mixer) Start by letting your mixing bowl get warm by running it under hot water for a minute and then drying it off before adding anything to it.
- 2. Dump the cup of hot water, 1/3 cup sugar, and 2 yeast packets into the bowl and mix it up by hand and let it sit in a warm place for 10 minutes until foamy. (This activates the yeast)
- 3. In another bowl, mix the 2 whole eggs and the 2 egg yolks with the salt and honey until incorporated and let it sit while the yeast gets going. Save the egg whites for the egg wash.
- 4. After 10 minutes, add the melted butter to the yeast mixture and stir by hand. Then add the honey/egg mixture and give it a good stir by hand until you feel no honey stuck to the bottom of the bowl.
- 5. This is where the stand mixer comes in handy. Attach the bowl to the stand and add in 1 cup of bread flour and stir on medium/low with the paddle attachment until smooth-ish. Repeat with 1 cup of all purpose flour, again with read flour, and one more time with all purpose flour.
- 6. After all the flour has been mixed in, scrape the bowl with a spatula and le it go on medium for about a minute. It should be sticky and the dough should be loose and feathery. If it's still too runny (depending on climate)add in 1/4 cup more all purpose flour and mix one more time and you should be good to go.
- 7. Microwave a large glass mixing bowl and coat completely with vegetable oil- then add in the dough and toss it around a couple times until it's also coated with oil. Loosely cover with a piece of plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm, draft free place. I like to use a lightly warmed oven. (I'll turn it on the warm setting for a few minutes and then turn it off before putting the bowl in there.)Now just let the dough sit in there for 1 hour, no less.
- 8. Then take it out, punch it down and dump onto a clean, floured work surface to braid.I like to toss it in the flour a little to make it a little less sticky before attempting to braid, it makes a smaller mess. after getting it nicely coated with flour, cut into 3 equal pieces for one loaf, or 6 equal pieces for 2 loaves. Then roll out to about a 2 inch diameter and braid each. Once braided, pinch and tuck the ends under to make it pretty.
- 9. Now put it onto whatever pan you're using to make it. a half sheet pan works nicely for a full loaf or baking both small loaves at once. Put a piece of parchment paper on the pan (very necessary, trust me)and put the bread in the middle. Put it back in the oven for another 45 minutes to an hour to rise.
- 10. Remove the bread and heat the oven to 350. Once heated, bake the bread on the middle/top rack. Here's a little trick of mine. The bread bakes for 30 minutes total, however I do not apply the egg wash until it has baked for 10-12 minutes. This keeps it from getting it too brown. Another thing I do it right when it hits the color I want (which is at about 20 minutes) I rotate the pan and cover loosely with a foil tent. This stops the browning but allows the bread to remain nice and shiny and beautiful. After 30 minutes, take it out and remove it from the pan, but leave it on the parchment paper for 10 minutes before you tear, slice or anything. It keeps the bread more moist. Enjoy!! It also makes AMAZING french toast, garlic bread, whatever :)
ABBY'S CHALLAH
This is one of the best loaves of challah bread we've ever tried. It's moist and soft in the center with the perfect crust. The dough has great elasticity and was easy to work with. It's a bit of a labor of love to make this, but the results are fantastic. The braiding in this recipe is unusual and creates a beautifully...
Provided by Liz Soldwish-Zoole
Categories Sweet Breads
Time 5h40m
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- 1. First, proof your yeast. Dissolve the sugar in the warm water in your mixing bowl. Sprinkle the yeast over the water.
- 2. Within 5 minutes, it should be bubbly and frothy.
- 3. Whisk the juice, oil or cooled melted butter, honey, eggs and salt into the yeast mixture. Add the raisins here, if desired.
- 4. Add the flour 1 cup at a time, mixing with each addition.
- 5. The dough will get thicker but will still be a little sticky when you're done.
- 6. Turn out onto floured surface
- 7. Knead 6-8 minutes, until elastic and smooth. Add flour to the surface very sparingly - better too sticky than too dry for this dough!
- 8. Put your dough in an oiled bowl, cover loosely with oiled plastic wrap.
- 9. Place in a warm place 1-2 hours to rise until doubled in size.
- 10. Punch down, repeat.
- 11. The second rise won't take as long.
- 12. Turn your dough out onto a flat surface.
- 13. With a sharp knife, cut into six equal pieces.
- 14. With your hands, roll each piece into a strand about 14-15 inches long.
- 15. Place 3 strands parallel to each other. With the other 3 strands, form a simple over-under-over lattice.
- 16. You will now have a checkerboard lattice in the center and strands of dough coming out the sides a few inches.
- 17. Braid each 3 strand set coming off the center until you run out of dough.
- 18. Tuck the braid UNDER the lattice center.
- 19. Carefully place in an oiled pie dish and let it rest for about 15 to 20 minutes.
- 20. Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees F.
- 21. Before placing your challah in the oven, you may brush the surface with an egg beaten with a tablespoon of water using a pastry brush. This will give a dark, shiny, stiff crust. I prefer taking a big plop of mayonnaise in my hands and gently rubbing the surface of the dough - not shiny and pretty but yields a very tender crust.
- 22. If desired, sprinkle with a tablespoon of sesame seeds, poppy seeds, or a coarse salt.
- 23. Bake 35-40 minutes. Remove from the oven, let cool about 10 minutes, then gently turn out of the pie pan to cool on a rack.
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