Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, koulouria from thessaloniki with cheese. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Koulouria from Thessaloniki with cheese is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Koulouria from Thessaloniki with cheese is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
Start by mixing the flour, the water, the yeast, the sugar, the oil. The Koulouri of Thessaloniki has Byzantine roots and it's origins are from Constantinople where Christians (Greeks, Armenians) were the first bakers. Of late, you will also find Koulouria with fillings like cheese, ham & cheese, chocolate, tahini or halva.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook koulouria from thessaloniki with cheese using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Koulouria from Thessaloniki with cheese:
- Make ready 1 kg bread flour
- Prepare 500 ml water
- Take 100 ml olive oil
- Prepare 2 packets dry yeast
- Make ready 20 g salt
- Get 80 g sugar
- Get 1 tbsp tahini
- Get 300 g sesame seeds
- Make ready 400 g feta cheese
- Take 400 g cream cheese
This healthy snack, packed with carbohydrates and proteins, is virtually sold everywhere, in bakeries or on the streets. Koulouri Thessalonikis (also called Simitiko), is a street food, round shaped bread product with a hole in the middle, covered with sesame seeds, crunchy outside and soft inside. It is one of our healthiest snacks as it is low in fat but very nutritional and most dietitians / nutritionists will tell you to eat one for. These bread rings are called 'kouloúria Thessalonikis' The word kouloúri means something coiled or circular and it is such a perfect description that the ancient Greeks used the same word, kolyria, to describe their bread treats.
Instructions to make Koulouria from Thessaloniki with cheese:
- Start by mixing the flour, the water, the yeast, the sugar, the oil, the salt and the tahini and make a dough that you work thoroughly for 15 minutes.
- Then divide the dough into 18 pieces, form sticks and then roll them out with a rolling pin into long and narrow strips.
- Mix the feta cheese with the cream cheese into a well combined mixture.
- Fill the strips with the cheese mixture and then fold them into rolls - sticks.
- Dip your hands in water and then brush the koulouri with wet hands so that you wet the bread ring, then dip it into the sesame seeds.
- Preheat the oven to 235°C and place 4 single-use aluminum cups filled with water in order to produce steam and leave them in the oven for the duration of the baking. Bake the koulouria in a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper for about 20 minutes.
The koulouri, a circular bread with sesame seeds, is the best product to appreciate the simplicity of taste. In Istanbul the venders of the koulouri (called koulourtzides) trumpeted their merchandise with the name "koulouri of Thessaloniki" and much later the same name was used by the street venders. My siblings and myself have tried to replicate hers but fail each time!!!! She came from Kastellorizou (just off the Turkish cost). Koulouria is a traditional Greek dessert that is often made for the Easter holiday.
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