We bake Easter bread in the oven

What is the name of the Easter bread? The answer to this question you will learn from the materials of the article. Also we will tell you about how such baking is done at home.

general information

An indispensable attribute of such a bright holiday as Easter is traditional pastry. Grandmothers and cakes - without them it is quite difficult to imagine a real festive table. Along with them, modern housewives also make such pastries as Easter bread. It fits perfectly into the format of this holiday.

Artos (emphasis on the first syllable) is the consecrated bread of the Easter week, made from a yeast base. The tradition of its preparation quite strongly influenced the Easter cuisine of all Orthodox peoples.

The classical artos is prepared with the image of a cross, on which only the crown of thorns is seen . This symbolizes the resurrection of Christ, his victory over death.

In the Russian community, Easter bread is a bakery.

At home, artos can be prepared in many ways. Sometimes mistresses give baking not quite the usual form and call it Easter bread. This product has an excellent taste. It can serve as an ideal decoration for a festive table. But you need to show a little imagination for this.

Excellent compositions are obtained from such bread, if you combine them with small pasochkami or painted eggs. Although this is just a few of the many different options that you can pick up on your own.

Delicious Easter bread: recipe

Despite the external complexity, such baking is done easily and simply. To make it lush and soft, use only fresh and suitable products.

So, for the Easter bread we will need:

• Wheat flour - from 450 g;
• Granulated sugar - from 1.5 large spoons;
• Salt cooked - incomplete dessert spoon;
• Dry yeast - 5 g;
• Milk whole and warm water - ½ cup;
• Butter - about 60 g;
• Sesame - use to sprinkle a semi-finished product.

Mesem the dough

Dough for such bread should be made only with yeast. To mix it, use a mixture of whole milk and warm drinking water. They are combined in one bowl, and then add sugar and properly interfere. After the sweet product dissolves, put dry yeast in the dishes and leave the ingredients in complete rest. In ¼ hours they should swell well.

After preparing the yeast mixture, salt is added to it and a very soft butter is added. Ingredients interfere with their hands and add to them wheat flour. This product should be poured until you get a homogeneous and elastic dough. It is covered with a rag, covered with a lid and left in a warm room for 80-90 minutes. As a result of this exposure you should get a lush and soft foundation. To make it more porous, it is periodically whipped.

The process of beautiful bread forming

Easter bread can be formed in different ways. Someone makes it in the form of a cross with a thorny wreath, and we decided to make baking a more convenient form for eggs. Thus, it is decided to form bread in the form of a kind of nest.

To implement this, it is necessary to use a large and round heat-resistant mold. It is well lubricated with oil, and then the bowl is placed in the middle part, having turned it upside down beforehand. It should be noted that the diameter of this dish should be half the size of the basic shape.

After the inventory has been prepared, they begin to form a semi-finished product. To do this, take a small piece of dough and roll it into a round layer with a thickness of 0.8 centimeters. Then it is spread over an inverted bowl. Then the remaining base is divided into 7 parts and forms the same balls of them. They are placed in the space between the sides of the heat-resistant mold and a bowl.

After that, the layer is not completely cut into 7 parts. The resulting petals-segments are opened, slightly pulling away from the corners. Putting them on globular semi-finished products, form a kind of flower.

After the described actions, the inverted bowl is carefully cleaned. As for bread, it is oiled either with sunflower oil, or with culinary fat, or with egg yolk. In the end, the semifinished product is sprinkled with sesame seeds.

Heat treatment process

Easter bread is baked in the oven not very long.

After the semi-finished product is ready, it is kept warm for 10 minutes. Then the product is placed in a preheated oven. At a temperature of 200 degrees, baked pastry is cooked for 55 minutes. During this time, the Easter bread will increase in volume, become lush and rosy. In this case, the hole in the middle of the product should either be significantly reduced, or completely disappear and tighten.

We serve delicious pastry to the Easter table

After the bread has been baked in the oven, it is taken out and greased with a hot butter. This will make it more fragrant, soft and delicious. Before filing to the festive table in the groove in the bread spread colored eggs.

Outwardly, such pastries are very much like a nest.

Let's sum up the results

Despite the fact that the process of preparing Easter bread takes a long time (for kneading the dough, keeping it warm, forming and baking), such a baked goods is baked quite often, especially on Easter holidays.

If you have your own ideas on how to form baked pastries, then you can safely introduce them into the culinary process.