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Folar

A Portuguese Easter bread, flavoured with aniseed and cinnamon and often topped with a hard-boiled egg in its shell. It's shared at Easter, and its name comes from an old word for the festival.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Dorure

Spices & seasoning

Optional extras

Nutrition facts

427 kcal per serving

Protein
14.2 g
Carbohydrates
56.4 g
of which sugars
14.6 g
Fat
15.1 g
Fiber
2.7 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

  1. In a bowl, dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm milk with a spoonful of sugar and leave it to foam for 10 minutes.
  2. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, remaining sugar, salt, aniseed and cinnamon.
  3. Add the beaten eggs and the yeast mixture, then knead for 10 minutes.
  4. Work in the soft butter in small pieces and keep kneading until you have a smooth, elastic dough.
  5. Cover and leave to rise for 1 h 30 until doubled in size.
  6. Shape into a ball, place in a buttered round tin, then arrange the raw hard-boiled eggs on top and secure them with two crossed strips of dough.
  7. Brush with egg yolk mixed with milk and leave to rise for a further 30 minutes.
  8. Bake at 180 °C for 35 minutes, until the bread is well browned and a skewer comes out dry.

Variations and tips

Raisin version. Add the raisins, soaked and drained, to the dough before the first rise.

Without the boiled egg. Simply shape a wreath and decorate with flaked almonds.

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Original Ecomely recipe.