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Lithuanian hala

Tasty, very tender and quite easy to prepare yeast baked goods, moderately sweet and very soft. The recipe for hala was shared on Olga Pekarko's page, and Olga knows a lot about buns. With a piece of butter, jam or just with tea, it's delicious!

hala Lithuanian

Composition:

para:

  • flour - 125gm
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  • water – 200g.
  • yeast - 2g dry or 6g fresh

dough:

  • wheat flour (b/c, 1c) - 250g
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  • salt – 5 gr.
  • sugar – 15 gr. (if you like it sweeter, you can increase it to 40-50 gr.).
  • butter – 60 gr. (you can replace it with vegetable oil)
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  • egg for greasing
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stroisel:

  • flour - 30g
  • sugar - 20 gr
  • cream butter - 20g

or poppy seeds, sesame seeds, seeds, etc.

Cooking Lithuanian hala:

Mix the room temperature water and the rest of the ingredients, stir, cover with a towel or foil and place in a fairly warm, draft-free place for 20-30 minutes until the yeast starts to work.

For the opara, mix the water at room temperature and the rest of the ingredients, stir, cover with a towel or foil and leave for 20-30 minutes until the yeast starts to work.

Add the sugar and flour to the opara and mix together. Add the salt and knead until gluten is medium, then introduce the melted butter in batches. Knead the dough until smooth and elastic - about 20 minutes. Form into a ball, cover to prevent the dough from getting weathered, and leave to ferment – about 2 hours or until the dough has doubled in size.

In the meantime, prepare the streusel. For this, mix the cold butter with the sugar and flour until crumbly.

Mix the sugar and flour together.

Shape the dough into a plait or braid, place in a baking dish and leave to proof for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Place in a baking dish and leave to proof for 1.5 to 2 hours.

Then brush the plait with egg and sprinkle with streusel (or poppy seeds, sesame seeds, seeds, or nothing) and bake in a preheated oven at 180C for about 30 minutes.

Bake in a preheated 180C oven for about 30 minutes.

Cool slightly and remove from the mold. Allow to cool completely before slicing, that's if you can hold yourself together. For me, nothing tastes better than a hot, flavorful baked good.

Hot, flavorful baked goods.

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