How to Cook Bolo Rei (Portuguese Christmas King Bread)
"Bolo de Rei, bread King Christmas Portuguese bright as one of the most popular Portuguese Christmas desserts tasted as far as a vacation.Bolo de Rei"
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Material for Bolo de Rei preferences:
- 2 cups of versatile flour (240 grams)
- 1/2 cup of milk (60 grams)
- 1 large egg (shake) (50 grams)
- 2 packs of dry instant yeast (14 grams)
- 1/4 cup of sugar (50 grams)
- 2 tablespoons of warm water (30 grams) to hydrate yeast
Portuguese bread dough material (Bolo Rei):
- 414 grams of preference
- 3 1/4 cup of versatile flour (390 grams)
- 1 teaspoon of salt (6 grams)
- 3/4 cup of sugar (150 grams)
- 1/2 teaspoon of adas powder sweet (2.5 grams)
- 1 pack of dry instant yeast (7 grams)
- 1 tablespoon of water (15 grams) to hydrate yeast
- 2 large eggs (100 grams)
- 1/4 cup of milk (60 grams)
- 9 tablespoons of unsalted butter (90 grams) at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (5 grams)
- 2 tablespoons of port wine (30 grams)
- 1 tablespoon of rum or brandy (15 grams)
- 2/3 of raisins (100 grams)
- 1 cup of lemon mixture and orange peel (150 grams)
- 1/2 cup of walnut (60 grams) chopped
- 1/4 cup pine nuts (30 grams)
- 1/2 cup of almond (60 grams) chopped
Bolo Rei topping material:
- 1 cup of icing sugar (120 grams) for toppings
- 2 Commerce of intact figs (100 grams)
- 1 cup of almond slices for toppings (100 grams)
- 2 Mandarin sweets (100 grams)
- 8 strips of sweets of pumpkin slices (200 grams)
- 2 candied pears (150 grams)
- 1 large egg (50 grams) shaken
How to Make Portuguese King Bread Preferment
- Prepare Options - Mix the yeast with water in a small bowl and leave it for 5 minutes or until it starts to bubble.
- Mixing with mixers - add flour, sugar, milk, and yeast to the mixing bowl with a hook and stir at a low speed for 3 minutes. Add speed and stir all 4 minutes back. The mixture must be around 80% said.
- Knead with hands - input all ingredients into large bowls and big bowls, add sugar and salt and make a hole in the middle. Pour eggs and milk and use your spatula or hand, mix flour with fluid from the outside of the middle. After the flour dismissed the liquid, knead the mixture on it.
- Divert the mixture into the oiled bowl, close, and leave the fermented for one hour or until the volume is 2x.
How to Make Bolo De Rei Dough:
- Prepare the most end mixture - add yeast and water to a bowl and stir until dissolution. Let stand for 5 minutes.
- Mixing the final dough with a mixing machine - added flour, sweet fennel powder, salt, sugar, egg combination, port wine, rum, and milk to the mixing machine bowl with hook hooks and stir slowly for 2 minutes.
- Put on the option dough and stir slowly for 3 minutes long.
- Add butter in a small ration (2 tbsp) and add the mixer speed and keep stirring for 5 minutes or until the Megar Prima mixture.
- After the mixture is mixed, add pine nuts, almonds, raisins, lemon skin, and oranges that have been burned with oil, then stir at a low speed of 2-3 minutes or until the material placed is truly mixed.
- Remove the mixture and put it in a large bowl in butter or flour or mix the mixture for 60 minutes or until the size becomes 2x.
- Hand Repellent System - Enter all dry ingredients into large bowls and make holes. Add fluids and butter and do the mixture until they are Teresa by the combination of flour.
- Add option and start kneading the mixture until Megar, around 10 minutes.
- Spread the mixture into the outside and add inclusion and stir until smooth.
- Turati way 10.
How to Form Bolo Rei:
- Divert the mixture onto the work of flour and for two similar sides or a ratio of 842 gr each.
- Round each piece so boule, close and leave it for 20 minutes.
- Make a hole in the middle, the form of the mixture is a large ring with a diameter of around 8 inches.
- Coat two large baking dishes with baking paper.
- Place it in the middle of a baking sheet and cover with plastic and leave Megar along for around 1 1/2 hours or until the volume is 2x.
- Oven pagination up to 185 ° C (365 ° F) around 30 minutes before the bread King Portuguese was tested.
- Apply the top side with egg beaters, then decorate with candied fruit, almond pieces, and icing sugar as shown above.
- Put the 2 trays in the oven and bake them for more than 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Exchange trays after 20 minutes to make sure the roasting is flat.
- Remove it from the oven and cool for 30 minutes.
- Cut Bolo de Rei and make it down.