Sunday, February 27, 2011

Sesame and poppy seed cheese bread sticks

Today I decided to prepare for supper cheese bread sticks.
For the dough:
One cup milk, one teaspoon salt, 3 tablespoons olive oil, 2 and ½ cups all purpose flour, one teaspoon dried yeast. Add 3 tablespoons of sour dough starter. Knead for 10 minutes to form a smooth ball. Add some drops of water for softness. Let it rise for an hour (or hour and a half) until it doubles in size.
Prepare a cookie sheet, lightly butter it and dust it with flour. Cut a handful of dough and stretch it to an about 1/3 inch thick oval the size of a palm. Brush the edges with a beaten egg white. In the center put generously crumbs of feta cheese. Pinch the ends together to seal it from all sides and to form a cylindrical shape. Lay with the seal down on the floured surface. The dough will make about 12 such sticks. Mix the yolk of the egg with 1 teaspoon olive oil and stir well. Bruch the tops of the breads with this emulsion generously. Sprinkle poppy seed or sesame seeds on top. Then let it rise for another ½ hour.
In the meantime preheat the oven to 400F. Bake for 15 min then increase the temperature to 450F and bake for more 5-7 min until golden brown color. Take out and let them cool for 20 min. Serve with salad.

Here are the breads

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