Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, finnish coffee pulla. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Finnish Coffee Pulla is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Finnish Coffee Pulla is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
We call it Finnish coffee bread (I'm of Finnish descent). Like a cinnamon bun but better! No icing, but cardamom gives these buns the oomph they desire.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have finnish coffee pulla using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Finnish Coffee Pulla:
- Prepare 1 pkg active dry yeast
- Take 1/2 cup warm water
- Make ready 2 cups milk scalded and cooled to luke warm
- Take 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 7-8 whole cardamom pods, seeded and crushed
- Take 4 eggs beaten
- Take 8-9 cups sifted flour
- Prepare 1/2 cup melted butter
- Make ready Extra melted butter to brush on cooked bread
- Get Sugar to sprinkle on cooked bread
Despite the not quite perfect turnout on the twists it still tasted fantastic. Finnish Pulla Recipe - my mom's recipe for a traditional Finnish bread scented with fragrant cardamom! Perfect for special mornings, gatherings, holidays or afternoon tea. Finnish pulla is a sweet bread from Finland - more specifically, alightly sweetened firm bun.
Instructions to make Finnish Coffee Pulla:
- Dissolve the yeast in warm water and let it sit till yeast activates.
- Stir in milk, sugar, salt, cardamom, eggs and enough flour to make a batter (about 2 cups).
- Beat until the dough is smooth and elastic. Add about 3 more cups of flour and beat well. The dough should be quite smooth and glossy in appearance. Add the melted butter and stir in well. Beat again until the dough looks glossy. Stir in the remaining flour until a stiff dough forms.
- Turn out onto a lightly floured board and cover with an inverted mixing bowl. Let the dough rest for 15 minutes. Knead until smooth and satiny. Place in a lightly greased mixing bowl. Turn the dough to grease the top. Cover with a tea towel and let it rise in a warm place (about 85 degrees) until doubled in bulk (about 1 hour). Punch down and let it rise again till almost doubled (about 30 minutes).
- Turn out onto a lightly floured board. Divide into 3 equal pieces and then divide each of the pieces into 3 equal parts. Shape each into a strip about 16 inches long by rolling the dough between the palms and the board. Braid the 3 strips together into a straight loaf and pinch the ends together. Repeat for the second and third loaves. Lift the braided loaves onto lightly greased baking sheets. Let rise for about 20 minutes. The loaves should be puffy but not doubled in size.
- Bake in a hot oven (400 degrees) for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Remove from oven when light golden brown.
- Brush tops of loaves with melted butter and sprinkle with sugar.
- Slice to serve. Enjoy!
Pulla is one of the most popular Finnish foods to have with a cup of coffee - an equivalent of coffee and. Home made authentic "pulla" pastry and coffee. Nice view to the lake and extremely kind service. There you can also buy local Kalakukko, a finnish fish pasty. Note the Finnish coffee is very dark in color.
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