It is impossible to say exactly when people guessed to add poppy seeds to baked goods. It is likely that this trend in cooking came from the Tatar national cuisine.
The fact is that the Tatars have a recipe for katlama, a pie with a large addition of poppy seeds as a filling. Later, the ways of cooking poppy seeds in baked goods were recorded in many peoples of the West. For example, the Poles, Hungarians, Swedes and Lithuanians. Poppy
seed
buns received a new surge of popularity in the Soviet Union. They were not expensive and were delicious.
We want to give you a recipe for a hearty and sweet poppy seed roll, where there is also a lot of stuffing.
Ingredients for the dough:
- milk – 250 ml;
- butter – 80 g;
- fresh yeast – 21 g;
- flour – 550 g;
- sugar – 130 g;
- egg – pcs;
- salt – ½ tsp;
- the white of one egg.
Ingredients for the filling:
- poppy seeds – 200 g;
- butter – 20 g;
- sugar – 50 g;
- milk – 120 ml;
- honey – 50 g;
Ingredients for the grease:
- butter – 50 g;
- milk – tbsp;
- egg yolk – pcs.
Preparation of poppy seed roll:
Pour a tablespoon of granulated sugar and yeast into warm milk, mix the ingredients. Add 2 tablespoons of flour to the mixture, mix, cover with a towel and wait 10 minutes for the opara
. Next, pour the rest of the sugar and salt into the opara, add an egg and an egg white. Mix the products in the opara, sift the flour, kneading elastic and soft dough.
When the dough will be gathered into a block, add butter to it, continue kneading
.
Transfer the dough to an oiled container. Keep the dough warm under a food film with a hole in it for an hour.
At this time, prepare the poppyseed filling. Pour boiling water over the poppy and let it swell for 10 minutes under a lid. Then get rid of the water in the poppy, mix with sugar and milk. Boil the filling until almost all the milk has evaporated.
Put honey into the poppy, mix and whip with a blender. Add the butter, mix again and continue to beat until
thick
.
Knead the dough, create a thick flatbread on the table and fold it into an envelope
.
Cover the dough with a bowl and let rest for 15 minutes. Next, roll out the dough into a thin layer 50×30 cm.
Place the filling on the layer and spread evenly over the entire surface.
Roll the dough into a roll, pinch the seam.
Transfer the roll to a baking tray lined with parchment. Cover the roll with cling film for half an hour.
Make a grease from a mixture of milk, egg yolk and butter. Grease the roll and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.
We recommend 15 minutes before the end of baking to cover the roll with foil, so that it does not burn. You can also make cuts on the dough or create a pattern, so the roll will turn out more beautiful.
Author of the photo and original recipe youtube.com channel: Cooking with Tanya 2.0
