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155 min — 120 min prep, 35 min cooking.

Goan Easter Folar

Name: Goan Easter Folar
Prep time: 120 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 155 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Goa Indian
Ingredients: 200g boiled eggs; 250g Milk; 70g Butter; 100g Eggs; 2g Cardamom Powder; 90g sugar; 500g wheat flour maida; 5g salt; 7g dry yeast

Sweet Easter bread with boiled eggs embedded on top. Portuguese-origin Goan tradition symbolizing resurrection.

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Time 155 min · Serves 8 · 418 kcal · North Goa, Goa

Ingredients

Garnish

boiled eggs (garnish) — 200 g

Main

Milk — 250 g
Butter — 70 g
Eggs — 100 g
Cardamom Powder — 2 g
sugar — 90 g
wheat flour maida — 500 g
salt — 5 g
dry yeast — 7 g

Method

Warm the milk. Add yeast and 1 spoon sugar. Keep for 10 minutes till frothy.
Mix maida, remaining sugar, salt, cardamom, 1 beaten egg and the yeast milk.
Add soft butter and knead for 10 minutes into a smooth soft dough.
Cover and rest in a warm place till double in size.
Shape into a round loaf. Press 4 boiled eggs in their shells on top.
Cross dough strips over each egg. Rest for 30 minutes.
Brush with the second beaten egg.
Bake at 180°C till golden brown.
Cool on a rack before slicing.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Goan Easter Folar?: 418 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 155 min — 120 min prep, 35 min cooking.

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