Easter Brioche Buns

Easter Brioche or Tsoureki Oriental in Greece is a traditional sweet bread, which is prepared throughout the year and especially during the Easter holidays. It needs yeast and good kneading to inflate and create beautiful fibers inside that will keep it fresh and fluffy for days. Also aromatic spices and citrus zest, such as lemon and orange, flavor it wonderfully. It is often decorated with red eggs and has different shapes and sizes.
This year we made small brioche buns to accompany our coffee for days.
Try them!
※※※※※We wish you Happy Easter 2021!※※※※※

work: 1h:00′

time: 4h:00′

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Little Aubergine Pies with Homemade Kourou Dough

A Kourou Dough -Yogurt Dough- so pliable & velvety, which you will love for the comfort of its management. The pies are filled with whatever stuffing we like. Wonderful Aubergine Pies were made here, very tasty & fluffy and where the tender, grated, biscuit dough competes equally with the wonderfully delicious stuffing with eggplant and Greek cheeses, such as Gruyère & kasseri or emmental. The blue poppy seed gives them an extra click of flavor.
A suggestion for a snack for the morning coffee but also for a beer or… why not, with an easy drink and fruity wine, iced & dry Pinot Grigio Delle Venezie -the most popular variety of Italy- on our summer terrace with dear friends.
Cheers!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:30′

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Traditional Greek Easter Bread-Tsoureki

If we close our eyes and think of Greek Easter, Orthodox Easter, the image to be formed in our mind is a delicious well done, braided super-soft, fluffy and moist brioche with a red egg. This is the view of our Greek Easter!
Sometimes easy with simple procedures and sometimes complicated and demanding the Tsoureki remains the favorite flavored sweet bread large and small. It has primacy in our Easter & Easter table with red eggs and bagels. Customs that blend and reconcile families and friends.
Yours!
Have a pleasant and enjoyable Easter of 2018!

work: 1h:00′

time: 4h:00′

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Almond Tart

Almond Tart with orange aromas. With grated base dough -Pâte Sablée- kneaded with poppy seeds. The aromatic stuffing of the tart has two layers. A first, thin, with apricot jam and a second with almond cream, made with blanched ground almonds, butter, orange zest, cherry brandy, eggs and sprinkled in the surface with almond slivers.
Refined, delicate, light, almost ethereal flavors, that only almonds can give us.
Yours!

work: 1h:30′

time: 2h:30′

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Ham & Cheese Stuffed Puff Pastry

Rolls of puff pastry, stuffed with ham and cheese slices.
Simple solutions, with ready puff pastry, that solves our hands and with sure success. These rolls are made very quickly, tasty, and stylishly practical to eat, a super finger food. Not omit to pour with a lovely mustard sauce, butter, poppy seeds and Worcestershire Sauce!
Excellent!

work: 10′

time: 40′

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Hawaiian Sandwiches

Warm delicious sandwiches with mayonnaise, cheese and ham in fluffy brioche buns. The spread mustard, butter, poppy seeds boosts the taste, change the category.
A classic sandwich can be made a very enjoyable delicacy by adding extra palatable ingredients and transformed into something different but definitely delicious. Their classic version is the addition of half pineapple slice. If you want you can experience it this way.
Yours!

work: 15′

time: 25′

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Cheesy Croissants

French croissants small, fluffy, cheesy and very easily. With simple procedures and sure success we make a tender, velvety dough with spreadable cheese, sprinkled with parmesan. We roll and here they are. The poppy seeds graces and flavors even more.
Eaten plain or stuffed with sweet and savory flavors. They are wonderful supplement of a loose breakfast. Offered for beautiful treats, canapés, finger food for office, for breakfast, for a picknick. Small sandwiches stuffed with a thin slice of cheese and our favorite prosciutto, minced ham, salami or whatever sausage we like and a few rocket leaves. Et voilà!
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 4h:00′

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White Chocolate Pralines

The pralines are a luxury product of Belgian confectionery and which comprise a chocolate shell filled with a soft substance or liquid without excluding the various nuts, hazelnuts, almonds, etc.
The usual Sunday dessert choice of Kitchen Stories is twofold. One proposal relates to white chocolate pralines filled with a divine taste of marzipan combined with poppy seeds, popping in every bite, and the second more classic. Pralines of dark chocolate filled with almonds and sprinkled with 2-3 grains of coarse sea salt.
Your Own!

work: 1h:00′

time: 2h:30′

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Savory Brioche

Salty bun, stuffed bread or oversized inflated bun; Whatever you call it remains a delicious, tasty treat.
Enhanced bread dough as brioche, made without particular difficulty requirements. A little time to wait for inflation, like all yeast doughs, and thats it.
Inflates perfect, kneaded and molded easily. The cheeses melt beautifully and with ham combined and diffuse into the crumb, giving it full of dense texture and flavor. Poppy seeds give crunchy texture and make more interesting taste and sight.
Yours!

work: 30′

time: 2h:30′

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Poppy Seeds Sticks

Who does not prefer the easy and fast to prepare food, especially those who are employees, students but novices in the kitchen or just in a hurry.
Tasty and bicolor -sesame & poppy seeds- pastry sticks, which in addition to enjoying them, may be combined with a multitude of accompaniments and spice, with their presence, even more what we want to accompany. From the simplest combination, like cheese and tomato until multi tasty dips or sauces and of course at the center of a buffet with finger food.
Your own inspirations!

work: 10′

time: 30′

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Lemon Meringue Pie

Lemon Pie with baked meringue in a classical version, where the Lemon Cream (Lemon Curd) into a very delicious dough -pâte brisée- with poppy seeds give intense flavor. The baked on the grill or stove pastry meringue more than aesthetics is an airy delight for the palate.
Yours!

work: 1h:00′

time: 1h:20′

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Poppy Seed Fruit Cake

Loaf Cake is delicious, festive, and crunchy with poppy seeds and many dried fruits, soaked with the juice and zest of fresh orange. The oil gives a special texture, moisture and flavor and its unique taste and sweetness of dried fruit make it irresistible.
Certainly is one of the cakes that we make again and again.
Yours!

work: 20′

time: 1h:00′

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Sandwich Buns

Fluffy buns and inflatable like brioche, sprinkled with blue poppy seeds to create with these delicious, dreamy sandwich, smeared them with butter and with our special summer jam to a great Sunday breakfast, but also to accompany our meal at home or at work, become the snack of children in school and so much more!
Make it easy enough, have a little patience to let the yeast to work for us.

Yours!

work: 30′

time: 1h:45′

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Poppy Seed Pancakes

Crunching, aromatic Pancakes with many poppy seeds, buttermilk, lemon juice and zest and the pancakes are ready to enjoy breakfast on Sunday along with milk, tea, juice.
Strong, intense and no way flat tastes, even if they involve simple pancakes!
Try them!

work: 30′

time: 30′

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One Bite Biscuits

Small, mini one-bite cheesy biscuits, sprinkled with sesame seeds, white and black poppy seeds or anything else that your inspiration dictates!
A special treat small in size but so tasty and practical to have with you and consume on the way.
Made easily and quickly without fuss.
Try them!

work: 30′

time: 1h:00′

very easy: 1/5

Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins with Stevia

Muffins, delicious with the scent of lemon and the characteristic flavor of poppy seeds. Lightweight and very popular desserts, eaten very easily.
In every bite, the poppy seed is broken between the teeth and you feel the crunchy texture without being a hard seed or sticking between the teeth as the strawberry. The yogurt gives them spongy and elastic texture.
Stevia was used as a sweetener, instead of sugar, with excellent results.
Try them!

work: 20′

time: 40′

very easy: 1/5