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.
Author: Ash
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
You could use a stand mixer or simple bowls and do it by hand.
In a mixing bowl, mix the sugar, melted butter and ¼ tsp. Mix it well with a wooden spoon until everything is incorporated.
In ⅓ cup of warm water, add the yeast and let it sit and bubble up for 10 minutes.
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.
Punch down after 2 hours and divide it into half.
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.
With the remaining scrap pieces of dough decorate the top of the bread which is very traditional.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 30-40 minutes. Do not burn the tops. Bake in the lower rack of the oven or middle.
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/