How to Make Traditional Ukrainian Easter Paska Bread: Step-by-Step Recipe Guide
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Ingredients
For dough starter
???? Fresh yeast - 80 g
???? Milk - 300 ml
???? Flour - 40 g
???? Sugar - 1 tbsp.
For dough
???? Eggs - 6 pcs. (separates the 2 eggs' whites from the yolk, keep it for glazing)
???? Sugar - 280 ml
???? Butter - 150 g
???? Vanilla - 1 g
???? Flour - 400 g (+ needs more for kneading)
Stuffing (optional)
???? Rum aroma - 0.5 tsp.
???? Raisins - 50 g
For glaze
???? Egg whites - 5 pcs.
???? Sugar - 5 tbsp.
???? Sprinkles for decor
First, let's make the dough starter. The starter is needed to give the Paska bread a richer flavor and aroma, which is exactly what happens when the yeast works in the starter.
Fresh yeast should be kneaded by hand in a bowl. Add warm milk (not hot), then add flour, sugar. Mix everything well.
Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes.
Separate whites from yolks from 2 eggs. We need the yolks for the dough, leave the whites for later for the glaze.
Add the remaining eggs to the main bowl where we will knead the dough. Add the sugar and beat until light color (this will take about 7-10 minutes).
Melt the butter, cool, and add it to the mixture.
Add 1 g vanilla from the stick (or replace it with vanilla essence).
Add the flour, and beat with a mixer for another 5 minutes.
Add the sourdough mixture to the bowl and stir to combine.
I divided. the dough into 2 bowls, as I will be made with different flavors.
Cover with plastic wrap and leave to rise in size for 40 minutes. Add more flour and mix.
In one of the bowls add the aromatic rum and raisins and stir.
Grease a baking dish with oil/butter. Spread the dough over half of the mold. Cover with a towel and leave for another 40 minutes.
In a preheated oven, bake the paska bread for 20-30 minutes at 180ºC.
After 15 minutes of baking, pierce with a wooden stick to make sure the dough inside is not soggy. If the dough is still soggy inside, cover the top with foil to keep it from burning and continue baking.
Place egg whites in the bowl using the mixer and whisk it attachment until frothy.
Increase the speed to high and continue to beat the mixture until soft peaks form, about 5 minutes.
Decorate with glazing and sprinkles.
Smachnogo! Enjoy!
How To Make Traditional Easter Bread From Scratch ll Paska recipe ll Traditional Easter Bread
How to make traditional easter bread from scratch... It sounds complicated! but don't you worry,, in reality it's not complicated at all!! Described as a mix between an Italian Panettone and French Brioche, this traditional easter bread or paska and kulich refer to an Easter bread, glazed with a light sugar icing and sprinkles. Traditionally cooked and eaten at Orthodox Easter. It's so MOIST, FLUFFY AND TASTY!
So let's celebrate Easter and let's make this traditional easter bread from scratch at home!!
INGREDIENTS:
For the bread:
- 20 gr yeast
- 500 ml milk
- 1 kg all-purpose flour
- 250 gr sugar
- 250 gr dried fruits
- 8 egg yolks (room temperature)
- 20 gr vanilla sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp curcuma
- 80 gr sour cream
- 50 ml vegetable oil
- 100 gr butter (soften)
- Zest of 1 lemon
For the glaze:
- 3 egg whites (large)
- 350 gr powdered sugar
- 1tbsp lemon juice
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Step by Step Tutorial to Make Paska; The Best Ukrainian Easter Bread Recipe
Learn how to make Ukrainian Paska, also known as Easter Bread, with this calming step-by-step tutorial. Learn the simplest, most full-proof way of shaping and baking a beautiful loaf of traditional Paska in your kitchen. #paska #ukraine #baking #bread #easter #tutorial
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Timestamps:
00:00 Step by Step Tutorial to Make Paska; The Best Ukrainian Easter Bread
00:05 Making Paska Dough
01:20 Kneading Shaggy Dough
01:49 How to Knead Dough Properly
02:34 Proofing Dough for Rising
03:00 Dividing the Dough for Second Proofing
4:00 Shaping Paska Decorations
04:40 Braiding Dough for Bread Decoration
05:19 Egg Wash for Dough
05:54 Additional Decoration Ideas for Paska
07:06 Baked Paska
In Ukraine bread is the symbol of life.
It represents peace and friendship. Forgiveness and enduring memory. Since ancient times bread has been highly honored as a gift from above.
For generations, Paska has been the bread made in kitchens throughout the regions of Ukraine on Good Friday. The timing of Easter, the Christian holiday, more or less coincides with the pre-Christian ancient festival of spring called Velykden. For this reason, the celebration of Easter incorporates many ancient rituals, including the making of Paska.
A Ukrainian ethnographer, Stepan Kylymnyk, in his book Calendar Year in Ukrainian Folklore (vol. 2, 1959), described an old custom of baking three loaves. The purpose of the first was for the sun and the sky. They believed that the sun would give health and long life to their family members. The second loaf for the deceased and a third for the living people.
Loaves are often decorated, their symbolism belonging to spring themes. Nature, resurrection, and rebirth. Crosses are the most prevalent adornment for Paska, its significance in Christianity is obvious. In pre-Christian times, when people based their beliefs on nature and its phenomena, the cross symbolized the four seasons or four cardinal directions.
The bread itself is rich in butter and eggs. Round and tall, and baked in a variety of round baking pans, often in coffee cans they have saved throughout the year. While this recipe is simple, a variety of aromatics can be used…my favorite being orange zest. Also consider adding ginger, saffron, vanilla, or rum. Its texture resembles, for me, a mix between cake and bread.
While the dough rises, it is important for Ukrainians that they quiet their homes.
Right now, the United Nations estimates that over 9 million Ukrainians have been forced from their homeland because of war.
When I watch the footage emerging from these border crossings, my gaze stays longer on the images of grandmothers. Many in wheelchairs, pushed mile after mile, bundled under blankets often covered in a blanket of snow. These women should instead be covered in a dusting of flour, surrounded by family, carrying on the tradition of Paska baking this Easter season.
I believe so strongly in the power of food and its ability to connect cultures and unite us as people. The way taste and smell can make us both wistful for the past and hopeful for the future. This Spring, I’ll be foregoing my own traditions for the baking of Paska. I will quietly knead, shape, rise, and bake what so many generations of Ukrainian women have passed down through the generations. Will you join me in keeping this tradition alive on their behalf this year?
This video tutorial and printable recipe are free, but my hope is that you’ll be moved to action to click the button above and donate to World Central Kitchen, a non-profit committed to providing warm meals in 12 Ukrainian cities and across the border into Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia.
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Russian Paska Easter Bread (Kulich) - No Yeast | Quick & Easy Paska Recipe
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This gorgeous Russian Easter bread, or kulich, is a light, fluffy, lightly sweet bread flavoured with dry blueberries, cranberries, and chocolate chips. This recipe is more for those who don't like to fuss around with yeast and wait, this paska bread is more crumbly, buttery, a cross between a cake and a muffin. This paska bread is mainly from tvorog ( Russian cottage cheese, but you can replace it with cream cheese, ricotta cheese, quark, or farmers cheese). This bread also requires no yeast, which makes it a super quick and easy recipe for those who want a last-minute paska bread.
Paska (паска) bread or Kulich (кулич) bread is a Russian and Ukrainian festive bread baked at Easter and is traditionally eaten only on Easter Sunday. The kulich would sit proudly in the center of the family Easter basket, surrounded by meats, cheeses, butter, and eggs. It's a central part of the Easter meal. This is not to be confused with another festive Easter dish called Paskha (Пасха), which is made mainly with tvorog (farmer’s cheese).
(Paska ) Sweet Easter Bread Recipe | Пасхальный хлеб
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This sweet easter bread is rich with tradition, symbolism, and treasured ingredients, Easter breads figure prominently in many cultures' celebrations. From Russia to Spain, these yeast-risen breads are full of eggs, butter, sugar, fruits, nuts, and spices – a small reward following the period of Lent leading up to Easter Sunday. This recipe makes 2 huge Paska Breads.