🥐 Poppy Seed Roll

Name: Poppy Seed Roll
Total time: 150 min
Yield: 12
Cuisine: Central & Eastern Europe
Ingredients: 400 g plain flour; 7 g dried yeast; 180 ml lukewarm water; 2 eggs (1 for the dough, 1 for brushing); 80 g butter, melted; 60 g sugar; 250 g ground poppy seeds; 60 g honey; 60 g raisins

Origin: Central & Eastern Europe

236kcal

per serving · 80 g

295kcal

per 100 g

6 gProtein7 g / 100 g

10 gFat12 g / 100 g

34 gCarbs42 g / 100 g

A poppy seed roll is a sweet yeast dough rolled around a dark filling of ground poppy seeds cooked with sugar, honey, butter and raisins, then baked into a log and sliced into spirals. The crumb is soft and buttery, the filling dense, nutty and lightly sweet. It is served in slices with coffee or tea, especially at Christmas and Easter.

Diets

✓

Vegetarianno meat or fish in a typical recipe

✓

No pork

Not veganbecause of: butter, egg, honey

Contains glutenbecause of: flour

Contains dairybecause of: butter

Not keto42 g carbs per 100 g

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Gluten ⚠ Eggs ⚠ Milk

What it is made of

flourpoppy seedssugarbuttereggraisinshoney

Recipe

12 servings150 min

Ingredients

400 g plain flour
7 g dried yeast
180 ml lukewarm water
2 eggs (1 for the dough, 1 for brushing)
80 g butter, melted
60 g sugar
250 g ground poppy seeds
60 g honey
60 g raisins

Method

Mix the flour, yeast, 30 g sugar, 1 egg, 50 g butter and the water into a soft dough; knead 8–10 minutes and let rise for 1 hour.
For the filling, simmer the poppy seeds with 100 ml water, the honey, the remaining sugar and butter for 5 minutes; stir in the raisins and let cool.
Roll the dough into a 30 × 40 cm rectangle, spread the filling over it leaving a border, and roll it up tightly from the long side.
Place seam-side down on a lined tray, brush with beaten egg and let rest for 30 minutes.
Bake at 180 °C for 35–40 minutes until deep golden; cool before slicing.

How to make it lighter

Cut thin slices of about 50–60 g; one slice is a reasonable dessert portion.
Reduce the honey in the filling and let the raisins provide more of the sweetness.
Pair a slice with unsweetened coffee or tea rather than a sweet drink.

History

Poppy seed rolls are a traditional holiday bake across Central and Eastern Europe, known as makowiec in Poland, beigli in Hungary and makovnjača in Croatia, among other names. Each region has its own variations of the dough and filling.

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