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Sweet Easter bread (with boiled eggs): how to prepare it – Italian Cuisine

Easter is upon us and it is time to get our hands ready. Here is a delicious bread to bring to the table for breakfast and lunch

TO Easter it's nice to make the table special with hard-boiled eggs he was born in homemade bread.
The preparation that we propose combines the two ingredients and is sweet: you can enjoy it in the morning for breakfast to start the celebrations or use in the mini version as placeholder for lunch.

Easter bread

The bread must have the shape of a donut (which can also be woven) and is decorated with the hard-boiled eggs, maybe even colored, but being here proposed in the sweet version you can also use chocolate eggs. Often one is added bread dough cross on each egg as a religious symbol.

The recipe for sweet Easter bread

Ingredients

350 g of Manitoba flour
150 g of flour 0
125 ml of whole milk
50 ml of water
150 g of butter
2 eggs
50 gr of cane sugar
4 gr of dry brewer's yeast

To complete
6 eggs
1 beaten egg or a cup of milk
raisin to taste

Method

Sift the flours into a bowl and add the sugar and baking powder, then warm water and milk and finally the eggs and the soft butter.
Use a planetary with leaf hook or work all by hand.
Form a homogeneous ball and let it rise for a couple of hours in a glass container covered with film.
Meanwhile, soften in the warm water of dehydrated raisins and prepare 6 hard-boiled eggs.
To do this gently dip the eggs in a small saucepan of boiling water and after 9 minutes of cooking drain them and pass them immediately under a jet of cold water.
When the dough has risen, add the well-wrung raisins and work it again.
Divide it into two loaves and form two loaves about 70 cm long.
Weave them together and make a crown. Arrange the eggs equidistant from each other by simply pressing them into the dough.
Brush the surface of the donut with beaten milk or egg and bake in the oven at 180 ° for 40 minutes.

The mini version

You can similarly make gods little ones sandwiches perfect for children's breakfast or for make placeholders.
To do this, divide the loaves into three parts each to obtain six sandwiches.
You can then decide to decorate with chicken eggs or even with colored chocolate eggs covered with sugared icing. They will not melt during cooking, but could break slightly if the oven temperature is too high.

Colored eggs

The most beautiful eggs to prepare this bread are the white ones, a little difficult to find on the market, but aesthetically more suitable to decorate.
If you don't find any white eggs, try to color them with natural colors as we explain here.

The bread made with sea water arrives – Italian Cuisine

It is low in salt and contains three times magnesium, four times more iodine, plus potassium, iron and calcium. Now it is also distributed in supermarkets

It is prepared without the addition of salt, yet it is really tasty, because this bread is done with sea water. The marine bread, already proposed by some Neapolitan bakeries, now also arrives in the supermarkets of the chain Sole 365. To produce it we use themicrobiologically pure sea water of Steralmar, a company from Bisceglie, the only one in Italy to supply seawater for food use, thanks to a patented purification process.

And the result is a special bread hyposodic, which offers many health benefits over the common one. As explained by the Cnr – Institute of Food Sciences, which has studied the properties comparing them with those of an ordinary bread, «it has a significantly lower salt content, equal to1.1 percent on 100 grams of product compared to the control bread which is 1.6 percent (the national average is around 2-2.5 percent) ".

Less salt is better

The taste and biological properties of common salt, sodium chloride, are mainly related to sodium, an essential element for the body, but for which, unlike other nutrients, problems of deficiency are hardly present. One gram of salt corresponds to 0.4 grams of sodium. The WHO (World Health Organization) recommends a daily salt consumption of less than 5 grams, equal to 2 grams of sodium. Because an excessive consumption of salt determines not only an increase in arterial pressure, with an increased risk of developing serious diseases of the cardiovascular system, but also a greater risk of contracting pathologies such as tumors of the digestive system, osteoporosis and chronic kidney disease. The Italians, however, are still far from the recommended values, according to data from the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Health: the average daily consumption of an adult is about 11 grams for men and 9 for women.

Important minerals

Sea bread is also particularly rich in essential elements for health, mineral salts and antioxidants: it contains triple magnesium, quadruple iodine, plus potassium, iron and calcium. Sea water contains 92 elements of the Mendeleev table, that is almost all those existing in nature. Refined salt, on the other hand, is deprived of many important minerals, such as magnesium, potassium, calcium and iron. The sea water also seems to facilitate leavening: this is another aspect that the CNR is investigating.

Recipe baked bread with mixed mushrooms – Italian Cuisine

Ingredients

2 pcs scaled and gutted fish bats
200 g cardoncelli mushrooms
200 g champignon mushrooms
thyme
chervil
dry white wine
salt
extra virgin olive oil

Duration: 45 min

Level: Easy

Dose: 4 people

For the recipe of baked sea bream with mixed mushrooms, clean all the mushrooms by removing the bases and cleaning the rest with moistened kitchen paper. Cut them in four lengthwise. Collect them in a bowl and season with a little oil, thyme leaves and a pinch of salt. Massage the bread with oil, insert a sprig of thyme and a pinch of salt into the belly. Place them on a plate, surround them with the mushrooms and bake at 180 ° C for about 20-25 minutes, sprinkling with a splash of white wine after about 10 minutes of cooking. Take the fish out of the oven and transfer them together with the mushrooms into a serving dish, recovering the cooking sauce to flavor them. Complete with chervil.