French brioche bread

Brioche is a french fluffy dough bread that includes eggs, milk, sugar and butter, it's something between a bread and a cake and it tastes like heaven!!!

You can find various versions in several other countries like in my home country, Greece, that we call them "tsourekia".

It's a recipe that I just loooooove and was missing from my blog despite the fact that I am baking them often, so let's start 2019 with this recipe ....



Ingredients
200ml of milk (warm)
60gr of sugar
1.5 teaspoon of salt
2 eggs
500gr flour T45 (or a bit more)
45gr fresh yeast (crumbled)
70gr unsalted butter (softened)


Procedure

1. Mix the first 5 ingredients in a mixer with the kneading tool for 1min at speed 1.
2. Add the yeast and knead for 10 more minutes at speed 2.
3. Add the butter and knead for 5 more minutes at speed 2.
4. If the dough is too sticky add a bit more flour, but not much.
5. Cover and let in a warm place to double in volume for 1h30min.
6. Knead again softly and then split in 6 equal parts.
7. Turn each part to a long thin cylinder of about 3cmx30cm.
8. Make 2 braided breads using 3 parts for each.
9. Place them in a buttered oven tray, cover them with a towel and let them rest again for almost an hour to raise again.
10. Beat an egg and brush them on top. You can add some almond powder too if you like or any other decoration.
11. Put them in the oven and bake with fan at 180 degrees of Celcius for about 30min or until they get a nice golden color.
12. Take them out, let them cool for 10min and try them warm already. They are to die for!!!