Easter bread of Cyprus...

Flaounes - Easter Breads of Cyprus
Ingredients:
For Bread
3 cups strong plain flour
1 tspn salt
2 tspns sugar
2 tbspns olive oil
1 sachet easy bake yeast
cup of warm water to mix
Filling
6ozs cheddar cheese
6ozs halloumi cheese
1 tspn baking powder
1 tspn dried mint
2 eggs
half cup sultanas
To decorate
1 egg beaten
Sesame seeds
6 or... however many you like, red-dyed hard boiled eggs
Method:
- For dough... Put flour in bowl, add yeast, salt, sugar and oil. Add warm water and mix.
- Need for 5 mins and leave to rise for 1 hour.
- Filling... Mix together cheese, flour, baking powder, mint and sultanas and then add beaten eggs.
- Mix to a stiff dough and cover.
- For the dough... when the hour is up, switch on oven and put on medium heat.
- Knock back dough, roll it out and cut into 12 balls.
- Roll out each ball into a 4 inch circle
- Add a teaspoon of mixture to each and then fold edges into a square (to ensure all fillings are equal you can divide the mixture into 12 balls)
- Mix egg and cover each flaoune and then sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Bake in oven for 15 mins or until golden.
Place on a plate, decorate with red-dyed eggs and when the time comes, try hitting eggs with each other to see whose egg is the hardest.
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