Pain Petri (Anise-Flavored Challah With Sesame Seeds)

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This Moroccan challah is called symptom petri (kneaded bread) due to the fact that the women who made it traditionally spent a batch of clip kneading the dough to execute a smooth, airy loaf. They formed the breadstuff astatine location and past baked it successful nationalist ovens, a signifier that lived connected successful Morocco until caller years. Even successful the precocious Middle Ages, erstwhile breadstuff could beryllium easy purchased from a baker, Jewish women inactive made the symptom petri arsenic 1 of the 3 blessings that a pistillate performs for the Sabbath. (The different 2 are to airy candles and to spell to the ritual bath, oregon mikveh.)

These Moroccan-style loaves are graced with the spirit of anise seed, and here's the champion part: They tin beryllium made successful astir an hour, commencement to finish.

You tin marque 2 larger challahs, oregon you tin twist 2 cylinders of dough unneurotic to marque 1 agelong braid and twist that into a circular challah. Either way, the baking clip volition beryllium a spot longer. The look tin beryllium halved easily.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  300

• Fat

  9 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  47 g

• Sodium

  450 mg

• Cholesterol

  55 mg

• Protein

  8 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  4 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Quiches, Kugels and Couscous," by Joan Nathan (Knopf, 2010).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.