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[Alex L]

Can anyone help me with a recipe for koulouri bread? Or point me to a recipe somewhere on the web?

I'm talking specifically about the village bread which often comes in a segmented loaf, resembling a giant larva smothered in sesame seeds.

Many thanks!

[Radio]

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[andri_cy]

3/4 tsp+ 3/4 tsp dried yeast (1 1/2 tsp at all)
850 gr Ap flour
2 tsp salt
1/2 cup (=100 gr) sugar
4 TB (=50 ml) oil (not olive oil)
Sesame seeds (200-300gr)
Dissolve 3/4 tsp dry yeast in 250 ml warm water and mix in 3 TB of flour.Leave the rising yeast to stand for 24 hours.Next day,mix 3/4 tsp of dry yeast with another 250 ml warm water,add 3 TB flour and leave to stand for about 15 minutes.
Sift 750 gr AP flour into a bowl with the salt,then make a well in the center. Pour the sugar, oil and the 2 lots of rising yeast into this and knead slowly until the mixture form a dough,add 100gr flour to make the dough.cover the bowl and leave to prove until it has doubled in size (1 hour) .Then knock it back and knead for another 5 minutes.pull of small lumps of dough (about 70-80 gr- you get 19-20 )and roll them into thin sausage shape, about 14 in =35 cm in length.
Dip these in water and roll them in sesame seeds before pressing the 2 ends firmly together into a ring.
Preheat the oven to 430 F(220C), lay the sesame rings on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes, until golden on the outside .Eat warm or cold...

[Alex L]

Andri, you are the man! This sounds like the real thing - but what is "Ap" flour? Can I just use plain flour?

Radio, thanks for your reply, but that recipe is for somehting that I do not recognise as Koulouri. I recognise it as something, but it is not Koulouri!

[cosmic]

Hi Alex

I may be wrong, but I think you might be looking for some bread called daktyla - also known as ladies fingers cos you pull it into fingers.

Koulouri comes in small rings rather than being a segmented loaf.

[andri_cy]

No cosmic, sometimes koulouri comes into segmented loafs as well. people use the same recipe. My grandmother does that. Alex Ap flour is "bleached white flour" but not the self rising kind.

[cosmic]

Thank you Andri

I thought it was only my brother who used the same name for both - but then I am in the UK.

The koulouri I buy in the Cypriot bakers is sweet and comes in rings. Daktyla is a segmented bread I sometimes buy, but when I looked it up on the net just now I got 2 explanations for it, one as a bread the other as a sweet desert in syrup with almond topping.

[Alex L]

It seems clear that we are in need of some sort of Koulouri Association to straighten all this out

Meanwhile, I will proceed with Andri's helpful recipe, and maybe even post up the results.

Thanks again!

[cosmic]

Alex - Enjoy

[andri_cy]

Thank you Andri

I thought it was only my brother who used the same name for both - but then I am in the UK.

The koulouri I buy in the Cypriot bakers is sweet and comes in rings. Daktyla is a segmented bread I sometimes buy, but when I looked it up on the net just now I got 2 explanations for it, one as a bread the other as a sweet desert in syrup with almond topping.

I do not know anything else other than the sweet desert in syrup with almond topping being called daktyla which by the way I would eat every day even if I became to be 34298234234 lbs. They are also awesome. Now that you reminded me of it I need to find a recipe for it