
Tri-color bread with sorrel, sun-dried tomatoes and carrots
A braided three-color loaf where each strand of dough is tinted with a different puree.
Ingredients
| 500 г | flour, plus 100 g for kneading |
| 2 ч.л | dry yeast |
| 2 и 1/2 ч.л | sugar |
| 1 ч.л | salt |
| 1 с.л | oil |
| 250 мл | water |
| 100 г | sorrel, pureed (or spinach) |
| 100 г | sun-dried tomatoes, pureed |
| 1 бр | carrot, boiled and pureed |
| — | red pepper (paprika) |
| — | turmeric |
| — | cumin |
| 1 | egg yolk, for brushing |
| — | poppy seeds and sesame, for sprinkling |
Instructions
- I used sorrel, but you can use spinach or any other greens. Puree it. Drain the sun-dried tomatoes and puree them too. Boil the carrot and puree it. Instead of carrot you can use pumpkin.
- Start mixing the flour with the rest of the ingredients and, when the dough becomes firm enough to knead by hand, divide it into three.
- The pureed sorrel (about 100 g) is added to one third and kneaded, adding flour until ready. You can also add a green herb, e.g. spearmint (dzhodzhen) or parsley.
- Do the same with the sun-dried tomatoes (about 100 g), but also add red pepper (paprika) for color and aroma. A cheaper version is to replace the tomatoes with lyutenitsa.
- To the carrot (1 pc) I added turmeric for a brighter yellow color and cumin for aroma. Here pumpkin would probably be even better.
- Knead the balls, leave to rise. Roll each out long and braid them like a kozunak so they interweave. Leave to rise again in the oven on setting 1, covered so it doesn't dry out.
- Finally brush with egg yolk and sprinkle with poppy seeds and sesame. That's it. :)