Easter Bread Recipe Croatian

Primorski Uskrsne Bebe/ Croatian Easter bread dolls is traditional slightly sweet yeast dough braided around a colored hard-boiled egg, giving the appearance of a swaddled baby

Today is Easter, this year we all are staying at home, so kids get involved in everything. I decided to make Primorski Uskrsne Bebe/ Croatian Easter Bread Dolls as part of World Easter bread Series. Croatians makes Easter bread Pinca for the Easter basket. With the same dough they make Primorski Uskrsne Bebe/Croatian Easter Bread Dolls.

Croatian Easter bread dolls or primorski uskrsne bebe (literally Easter babies from Primorje) are traditionally made in Primorje and Istria on the Adriatic Coast from pinca.

Primorski Uskrsne Bebe: Croatian Easter Bread Dolls Recipe

Croatians makes round sweet Easter bread called pinca to put it into Easter basket and take it to church for the Holy Saturday for blessing. With the same dough they makePrimorski Uskrsne Bebe/ Croatian Easter Bread Dolls for kids. I It basically looks like a swaddled baby. Dyed eggs are the head of baby peeking through the swaddle.

They are prepared with a slightly sweet yeast dough braided around a colored hard-cooked egg, giving the appearance of a swaddled baby. Traditionally eggs are dyed red, however nowadays there are other colors are used to make the Croatian Easter Bread Dolls.

Kids can take part in the various stages of making this Primorski Uskrsne Bebe/ Croatian Easter Bread Dolls. From dying the eggs to making the dough, placing the eggs and finishing the bread with drawing faces on the eggs. I used food color for dying the eggs in this recipe. If you want, you can naturally dye the eggs recipe is here. This recipe is inspired from here, I reduced the amount of recipe and adjusted according to our taste buds. I have added orange zests and vanilla extract also and made 3 bread dolls.

Uskršnja Pogača / Easter Bread

• Use soften butter vs melted butter. You need to combine soften butter into the dough to make brioche kind of dough

• If you are using yeast, use SAF gold yeast as they tend to work better in the presence of sugar. If you don’t have SAF Gold Yeast in hand, try to use slightly more instant yeast to make it work.

Next, I am going to try this bread with my sourdough starter. Let you know how it turned out for you next post. If you tried this recipe, please tag me in Instagram or upload a picture in Pinterest I will update this blog post with your picture and credits will be given to you.

Croatian Traditional Sweet Easter Bread Called 'pinca'

Calories: 382 kcal | Carbohydrates: 23 g | Protein: 13 g | Fat: 26 g | Saturated Fat: 14 g | Cholesterol: 344 mg | Sodium: 662 mg | Potassium: 226 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 22 g | Vitamin A: 1023 IU | Calcium: 138 mg | Iron: 1 mg

This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.Every year for Easter I like to make homemade bread to go with our meal. Sometimes that’s homemade bread rolls, sometimes it’s a loaf of bread I slice up into thick slices, and sometimes it’s this

That I braid and bake, and then top with dyed Easter eggs to serve as a centerpiece for our table. As the Easter holiday approaches, I’ve decided this year I’m going to make this bread, so I thought it would be the perfect time to share it with you!

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This bread recipe, which is more of a brioche bread since it contains eggs and yogurt, perfectly complements any meal, but especially a traditional Balkan Easter meal. It’s neutral in flavor, soft, and breaks apart beautifully for sharing. There’s a saying about pogača: “

What’s great about this recipe is that you can be as creative as you’d like with the dough. The dough itself is very soft, not sticky, and super easy to work with. I decided for this recipe I would incorporate a braid pattern but still make it simple enough so that anyone could make it. And the great thing about dough is if you don’t like the way something turned out you can re-knead the dough and try again :).

When serving this bread, I like to top it with a few Easter eggs or one red Easter egg, which is most traditional. Some recipes for Easter bread say to bake the hardboiled egg with the bread so that is embedded in the design. You can definitely do that or you can place a ball of aluminum foil in the middle and it will keep the shape without having to use the egg.

Croatian Easter Bread (sirnica Or Pinca), Pastry Maestra

I’d like to mention that this bread can be eaten year-round and doesn’t necessarily have to be for Easter. I make this recipe often but will either roll all the dough into balls or simply bake it into a round loaf shape with no special decorations.

I hope you give this bread recipe a try soon. It’s so comforting and delicious that I’ll know you’ll love it as much as we do.There are two things that immediately come to my mind when I think of Easter: Croatian sweet Easter bread we call “Pinca” and decorated eggs dyed using the red onions skins. So that’s why I decided those two to be my blog posts for this week before Easter.

Living abroad as an expat means you always get this mix of different feelings for holidays, you are happy and grateful for all the new experiences that this way of life offers but at the same time you are nostalgic and even sad at times, you miss home and your family and friends more on those special days.

Pinca Is A Traditional Croatian Or Dalmatian Easter Bread Which Is Given To Guests As A Symbol Of Good Wishes Stock Photo

My way of handling is to bring some of those memories and traditions with me wherever I am and somehow when my home smells of the sweet bread my mum bakes for Easter or vanilla cookies that we would bake together in Christmas time or when my fingers are covered with flour when baking a traditional cake my grandmother would bake for those special occasions, my heart finds peace and I feel like home is here, with me, wherever I might be…

That is a reason why I love food so much, it’s all the memories and stories we connect we certain foods and just a smell or a process of making it can bring us back in time instantly.

“Pinca”, slightly sweet bread with a hint of lemon and orange zest, traditionally is brought to the Church in the basket (together with eggs) to be blessed by the priest before being eaten for Easter breakfast. Other traditional food that we eat in Croatia on this special day are spring onions, radishes, cooked ham with horseradish sauce and of course eggs. What do you eat in your country for Easter? I would love to know!

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