Hi everyone! Welcome to Amanda's Taste
Special Nordic series
Today is our last episode
After going to Copenhagen, Denmark
And Stockholm, Sweden
Today I will introduce you Helsinki, Finland
There are the overnight ferries running
Between Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland
Enjoy the sunset and dinner on the ferry
Have some wine, go to the SPA, get some sleep
And you will arrive in Helsinki the next day
It was a short stay in Helsinki
But it gave me some very strong impressions
For example, I went to a very famous restaurant "Savoy"
It was very famous in the area
But which gave me the most impression at last
Was actually their bread
Everyone knows that this kind of restaurant
Would give you a basket of bread before meal
And there was this black rye bread
It was really delicious
Tasted a bit sweet and chewy
So today I will show you how to make this
Finnish Christmas Rye Bread
Let's take a look at the ingredients first
We need the rye flour and the wholewheat flour
For the bread, it's very healthy
In addition, we also need some butter, yogurt,
Molasses sugar, dry yeast, orange, and fennel seeds
For the first step, we're going to make the syrup
Melt the molasses sugar
With the same amount of hot water in a pot
Put the butter in
Add in a pinch of salt
Cook it until the syrup it's boiled and the butter is melted
And then add the fennel seeds in
The fennel seeds would give the bread a special taste
Turn off the heat
And pour the mix in a big bowl
And then add the yogurt in
Stir it a bit
I am using the sugarless yogurt
It should be the very thick one
After stirring it evenly, you can feel the temperature of it
It should be warm now
Perfect to activate the dry yeast
Because I'm using the dry yeast
Which requires being activated in advance
Leave it for a while
Until you see some bubbles on the surface
Pour the rye flour and the wholewheat flour all in it
Next, we're going to grate the orange peel
I had talked about the orange peel many times
That it can provide a natural zest of orange
You'll need the peels of the whole orange
And then mix it evenly
Either by hand or with machine works
It's still too dry and we need some orange zest in it
Use the orange that we just grated the peels
Zest about 1/3 to 1/2 orange juice in it
And mix evenly
It will become a slightly wet and sticky dough
Move it to the cutting board
Sprinkle some wholewheat flour in advance
On the cutting board to prevent it from sticking
Slightly knead the dough like this
Because we're not using the normal flour today
So there isn't a lot of gluten in it
Don't need to knead it to develop the gluten
And you can't develop it anyway
Just need to make it smooth and not sticky
Make it into a ball
Get a bowl
Grab a small piece of butter
Wipe it over the inner side of the bowl like this
To prevent it from sticking later
Put the dough in it
Cover the lid and leave it at somewhere warm
To proof it for about 2-3 hours
Until the dough turns into 1.5 to 2 times bigger
Poke it with your finger
To feel that the hole won't come back
It means it's proofed
Get the dough out
Slightly press it
To get the air in it out
And make it into a ball again
Put it on a baking tray
Now we need to do the second time proofing
Place a plate of water at the bottom of the oven
Put the dough in and close the oven
To create a warm environment with steam
To make the dough get proofed for the second time in it
It'll take about half an hour to one
To make it two times bigger
Take both the dough and the water out
Preheat the oven to 200°C
Make some holes on the dough with a fork
Put the dough back in the oven when its preheated
Bake it for 20 minutes with 200°C
And then take it out, the dough isn't completely done yet
We're going to brush a layer of syrup on the surface
Just mix the molasses sugar and hot water
With the ratio of 1:2
Brush the syrup evenly on the surface of the bread
It will increase the sweetness of the bread
And it also helps to bake a beautiful reddish brown color
Put it back in the oven after brushing the syrup
Keep baking it with 200°C for 15 minutes
The baked bread looks just like this
Shiny reddish brown color on the surface
Cool it down a bit
Slice it and enjoy it while it's still warm
This rye bread recipe
There are molasses sugar, orange peel
Orange juice and fennel seeds in it
It's very sweet
So even though it only uses the healthy coarse grains
Like the rye flour and the whole wheat flour
The taste isn't coarse at all
Butter it while it's still warm and it tastes very good
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