Jewish Challah

Challah is traditional bread of Jewish was eaten on Jewish sabbath and on all Jewish holiday. A symbolic act, with a blessing recited when the dough is thrown into the fire or discarded. It is customary to eat three meals begin with blessing of loaves bread. Traditional recipes used a large number of eggs, white flour, and sugar. Modern recipes tend eggless and replace white flour with whole wheat, oat, or spelt flour. Sometimes honey or molasses is substituted as a sweetener. The dough is rolled into rope- shaped pieces which is braided before baking and brush with egg yolk and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Nana (http://masak-enak-makan-enak.blogspot.com/) she introduced me this bread last time and i have interest to baked my own. Even no egg added the breads was really soft and moist. Thanks Nana really i was happy because my hubs enjoying the bread while just out from the oven. He said my bread was great, how do yo think friends??

Ingredients:

1 kg Bread Flour, 2 Tablespoons Yeast, 6 tablespoons sugar, 1 tablespoon salt, 1/2 cup Oil. 450 ml warm water, 1 Egg, Sesame seeds

Directions:- mix all ingredients in a big bowl except Egg & Sesam seeds, then knead it until good smooth dough has been achieved.- Place the dough in a bowl and let it rise for 1 hour. During 1 hour, punch & knead the dough in every 15 minutes.- Then, divide dough into your desired amount of loaves then divide each piece into 3 and start braiding- Place the braids on a baking sheet covered with baking paper- Brush with egg & then sprinkle with sesam seeds, let it rise for another 30 minutes- preheated oven for 150 C & bake the braids fo 30 minutes