Poppy Seed Strudel

Poppy strudel is a traditional dessert in South East Europe. It is really delicious and for you, I found my grandmother's old resipe for this strudel whick everyone loves. I hope you'll like it too.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 400 gr. of flour
• 80 gr. of butter
• 80 gr. of sugar
• 1 sachet of yeast
• 2-3 dl. of milk
• 2 egg yolks
• salt
• lemon peel

Filling:

• 250 gr. of poppy seed
• 250 ml. of milk
• 80 gr. of raisins
• 150 gr. of sugar
• 1 vanilla sugar
• lemon peel, cinnamon, rum
• 60 gr. of butter for greasing
• powdered sugar for decoration

Preparation:

Filling:

1. Pour hot milk on ground poppy, boil, add sugar, raisins, vanilla sugar, lemon peel, cinnamom and rum. 
2. Mix well and leave to cool.

Dough:

1. Mix the yeast, a teaspoon of flour and a teblespoon of sugar with some lukewarm water.
2. Cover with a tpwel and leave in a warm place to rise.
3. Put the flour in a bowl, add the melted butter, egg yolks, sugar, salt, lemon peel and risen yeast in the middle.
4. The dough is soft so you can knead it with electric mixer. When its done, leave it in a warm place to rise an hour.
5. Divide dough into two pieces, roll out each piece on a floured surface to rectangles (20x30 cm).
6. Grease it with melted butter and then with filling.
7. Form two strudels and leave it covered for another half an hour to rise.
8. Brush with egg white and bake in the over at 200C for about an hour.
9. Baked strudels sprinkle with sugar, let it cool and cut into slices.

Enjoy. :)

Walnut strudel

This walnut strudel is very tasty and you can get four rolls from this ingredients. You can make it in short time and eat it for several days, it won't become dry.

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 1 sachet of yeast
• 30 gr. of margarine
• 500 gr. of flour
• 60 gr. of powdered sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• salt

Filling:

• 500 gr. of walnuts
• 150 gr. of sugar
• 2 dl. of milk
• lemon and orange zest
• cinnamon
• rum
• sugar for decoration

Preparation:

Filling:

1. Grind the walnuts and mix them with sugar, raisins, orange and lemon zest, cinnamom and then add hot milk.
2. Briefly boil and then cool it.
3. Finally, add some rum.

Dough:

1. Mix the yeast, flour and sugar with warm water to form a porridge. Leave it in a warm place to rise (covered).
2. Delump margarine and flour. Add sugar, salt, egg, egg yolk and risen yeast and form a dough.
3. Share it on 4 equal parts and roll into rectangle shape (30x20 cm)
4. Apply the filling on each piece and fold into rolls and arrange in a baking pan, one next to another
5. Leave it to rest for 30 min. in a cool place.
6. Bake it in over at 200C for about an hour.

Enjoy :)