Salvadoran Sweet Bread- Semitas De Dulce (Sweet Stuffed Bread)
 
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This Salvadoran Sweet Bread / Semitas De Dulce is a traditional bread stuffed with panela/jaggery. A delicious twist on the classic recipe is to use your favorite jam as a filling.
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Recipe type: Breakfast
Cuisine: Spanish
Serves: 16
Ingredients
  • Milk - ¾ cup
  • Unsalted sweet butter - 8 tbsp or ½ cup,melted
  • Sugar -1/4 cup
  • salt -1/4 tsp
  • Egg - 2 large
  • active dry yeast - 1 packet or ¼ ounce or 1 tbsp
  • All purpose flour - 5 cups
  • Warm water -1/3 cup about 110 degrees
  • For egg wash- 2 tbsp water and 1 egg
  • Sugar for sprinkling on top, fine or turbanado
  • Panela/ or hard jaggery for the stuffing or any marmalade(pineapple, rhubarb, strawberry, pineapple or apricot preserves)
Instructions
  1. You could use a stand mixer or simple bowls and do it by hand.
  2. In a mixing bowl, mix the sugar, melted butter and ¼ tsp. Mix it well with a wooden spoon until everything is incorporated.
  3. In ⅓ cup of warm water, add the yeast and let it sit and bubble up for 10 minutes.
  4. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, beaten egg, butter mixture, mix it well with a wooden spoon. Mix it well until its all well incorporated and bring it to a floured surface and knead it for about 3 minutes. The dough will be sticky. Transfer to an oiled bowl and cover, let it rise for 2 hours.
  5. Punch down after 2 hours and divide it into half.
  6. Roll ½ the dough to a ¼ inch thickness and transfer it carefully to a 7-11 baking tray. Spread out the semita or crushed jaggery evenly over the flattened bread. At this point, you could spread jam too instead of the jaggery. Carefully roll the other ½ of the dough and lay it on top of the jaggery on the tray. Pinch the sides like you would crimp a pie, so the sugar doesn't ooze out.
  7. With the remaining scrap pieces of dough decorate the top of the bread which is very traditional.
  8. Bake at 350 degrees for about 30-40 minutes. Do not burn the tops. Bake in the lower rack of the oven or middle.
  9. After about 40 minutes, take it out and let it cool completely on a rack. Cut and serve.
Recipe by Food Fashion Party at https://www.foodfashionparty.com/2018/05/15/sweet-bread-semitas-de-dulce/