Christopsomo full of flavors!
Christopsomo full of flavors!

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Ingredients of Christopsomo full of flavors! Christopsomo is a traditional Greek Christmas bread. Filled with walnuts, flavoured with star anise and mahlab. What is mahlab you may ask.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook christopsomo full of flavors! using 20 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Christopsomo full of flavors!:
  1. Prepare 600 g strong flour
  2. Get 300 g cake flour
  3. Take 200 g wholemeal flour
  4. Make ready 120 g sheep's yoghurt with the skin
  5. Make ready 2 full tbsp  honey
  6. Take 60 g fresh yeast
  7. Take 2 cups lukewarm water
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp salt
  9. Get 1 tbsp pimento, powder
  10. Get 1 tbsp nutmeg, powder
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp anise
  12. Make ready zest of 1 orange
  13. Take 120 g finely chopped walnuts
  14. Prepare lukewarm water as much as the dough takes
  15. Prepare For decorating
  16. Get 80 g whole blanched almonds
  17. Take cloves plenty of
  18. Make ready sesame seeds
  19. Get 1 shelled walnut
  20. Take 1 egg yolk and a little milk for brushing the top

Christopsomo, or Christ's Bread, is considered a sacred tradition in many Greek Orthodox homes and the care with which it is made is said to ensure the well-being of the home in the year to come. Christopsomo (Christ's Bread) is a type of traditional Christmas bread prepared all across Greece. The bread itself and the ceremonial nature of preparing it symbolize the prosperity of the household. It is typically made on Christmas Eve, but in several parts of Greece it's also prepared for New Year's Day.

Steps to make Christopsomo full of flavors!:
  1. Crumble the yeast in a bowl and add the honey. Add the lukewarm water and stir until they dissolve. Let the mixture foam for 10 minutes.
  2. Uisng another bowl, mix all the flours (sifted), add the powdered spices except the walnuts and the zest. Make a well and add the yoghurt and the yeast mixture. Mix. Dissolve the salt in the lukewarm water that you will need for the dough. Add it gradually until you have a pliable dough that doesn't stick to your hands. At this point add the finely chopped walnuts and the zest.
  3. Knead your dough for 10 minutes.
  4. Leave it to rest in an oiled bowl at a warm place for one hour and a half until it rises. Then knead lightly, keep a piece of the dough the size of an apple and after you form the dough into a round loaf place it on oiled greaseproof paper (I suggest that you use a round baking tray) and start decorating. Using the piece of dough that you set aside, make two strings and form a large cross on the top and if you like, make patterns like leaves or birds. Push in the almonds and cloves. Place the shelled walnut at the center of the cross. Set it aside once more, in a warm place in order to rise, for about an hour.
  5. When the hour passes brush the top with the egg yolk-milk, sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake at 160°C using the upper and lower heating elements on the last rack for 50 minutes to one hour.
  6. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

The bread itself and the ceremonial nature of preparing it symbolize the prosperity of the household. It is typically made on Christmas Eve, but in several parts of Greece it's also prepared for New Year's Day. In Greece, the Christmas fast is broken on Christmas Eve with Christopsomo, or the "bread of Christ." This round loaf draws its distinctive licorice-like flavor from mastic gum, the dried resin of a Mediterranean tree. Trahana with eggplants in the tava. Christopsomo is a Greek Orthodox Christmas bread full of symbolism and meaning.

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