Swedish yeast bread (Vetebröd) with cardamom and sugar icing

AUTHOR
Rachel Vazquez
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 2
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 25
  • 4–5 Cardamom Capsules
  • 325 ml Milk
  • 1 cube (42 g) Yeast
  • 500 g Flour
  • 1 TABLESPOON Sugar
  • 6 TABLESPOONS Oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
  • 150 g Icing sugar
  • 1 Egg yolk (size M)

Directions

  1. 1

    Chop the cardamom finely or use a mortar. Warm the milk. Dissolve yeast in it. Knead yeast mixture with flour, cardamom, sugar, oil and 1 pinch of salt to a smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes until it has doubled in volume.

  2. 2

    Roll out the yeast dough rectangularly (approx. 35 x 27 cm) on a floured work surface. Cut the dough sheet several times from both long sides to approx. 1/3 at a distance of 1-1.5 cm. Fold over the dough strands one after the other alternately towards the middle and press down slightly. Cover and let rise again for about 20 minutes. Whisk the egg yolks and 3 tbsp. water. Spread bread with it. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 20-25 minutes. Take out bread and let it cool down.

  3. 3

    water. Spread bread with it. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for 20-25 minutes. Take out bread and let it cool down. Mix lemon juice and icing sugar to a thick icing. Spread the bread with the icing sugar and let it dry.

  4. 4

    waiting time approx. 2 1/4 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
130 kcal
CARBS
21 g
FATS
3 g
PROTEINS
3 g