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Flaounes

Easter bread of Cyprus...




Flaounes 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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