Ingredients:
- 20 g fresh yeast (half cube)
- 50 ml milk
- 1 tbs flour
- 5 tbs sugar
- 50 ml yogurt
- 50 ml oil
- 50 g butter
- 1 vanilla sugar (10 g)
- about 500 g flour a pinch of mahleb
- 2 eggs (1 for coating)
- choco cream or jam or just add raisins in the dough (optional filling)
Preparation:
- Put yeast with the lukewarm milk, sugar and a little flour. Wait to activate. I use a coffee pot which I warm up a little on the hot stove and it activates in no time.
- Pour flour in a plastic bowl, add the yogurt, the egg, activated yeast, vanilla sugar and oil and knead a soft dough.
- Once dough is nicely kneaded, melt the butter and let cool a bit. Add a little to the dough while kneading, and add butter a little by little until all butter is spent.
- Allow the dough to rest for approximately 1-2 hours on a warm place. It should double its size. Keep dough covered to keep it warm.
- Put dough gently on an oiled desk and divide into 3 parts from which you'll later form braid. Stretch each part a little in a rectangular long shape and add filling. Then roll it. Repeat the procedure with the other 2 parts. Then form a braid from the 3 parts.
- Put braid into oiled mold, wrap in a bag and put in the oven for about 30 minutes at 25-30 C degrees. Once arrived, braid is coated with beaten egg with a little milk and sprinkled with crystalline sugar or sesame seeds.
- Bake at 180 degrees. Once you get a nice color, cover with aluminum foil and return to oven. Total baking time should be around 1 hour.
- Coat baked kozinjak with butter and cover with kitchen towel.
- Try it, I guarantee you'll love it. This is the recipe that you were searching for a long time.
- Enjoy!
