Threaded Tutmanik (Layered Cheese Bread)
A wildly popular internet-hit Bulgarian layered cheese bread, rolled into ropes the way grandmothers used to make it.
Ingredients
| 20 g | Fresh (live) yeast | |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | Sugar |
| 200 ml | Fresh milk | |
| 125 g | Yogurt | |
| 1 tsp | 5 ml | Salt |
| 100 g | Butter, melted | |
| 100 ml | Oil | |
| — | Eggs (1 egg + 1 egg white) | |
| 1 | Egg yolk, for brushing | |
| 4 tea-cups | Flour (plus extra for kneading) | |
| 300 g | White brine cheese |
Instructions
"...it became a total hit on the internet! An incredibly tasty and easy tutmanik, the kind our grandmothers used to make. Something you must not miss."
Method of preparation:
Activate the yeast with the sugar and part of the fresh milk. After it foams up, add the remaining fresh milk, the yogurt, the egg, the egg white and 1/3 of the fat.
After everything is well mixed, add the flour little by little along with the salt until a soft, sticky dough is obtained. Leave to rise for about an hour.
Divide the dough into 4 parts. Roll out by hand into a sheet. Brush with butter and crumble cheese over it.
Roll up into a roll and place in a baking dish, twisting the sheets slightly.
Brush the tutmanik with the egg yolk. Wait for it to rise again.
Bake the tutmanik in a moderate oven at 170 degrees until golden.