Name: Poppy Seed Roll Recipe
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 120 min
Ingredients: ½ tablespoon Fresh yeast; ¼ cup Milk; 4 cups Flour (if there is pastry flour available use half pastry flour half normal); 2 sticks Butter; 2 tablespoons Honey or sweetener of choice; 2 medium Eggs; 1 tablespoons Sour cream or Greek yogurt; ½ teaspoon Salt; 4 cups Poppy seed; 7 tablespoons Honey; ¾ cup Raisins; 1 medium Lemon zest; ⅘ cup Milk; 1 medium Egg for Egg-wash

Looking for a recipe that will bring back childhood memories or implant new ones? Let’s try poppy seed rolls to make good ones!

Ingredients

(makes 2 rolls)

Dough

½ tablespoon / 5g Fresh yeast
¼ cup / 50g Milk
4 cups / 500g Flour (if there is pastry flour available use half pastry flour half normal)
2 sticks / 200g Butter
2 tablespoons / 40g honey or sweetener of choice
2 medium / 100g Eggs
1 tablespoons / 15g Sour cream or Greek yogurt
½ teaspoon / 2.5g Salt

Poppy seed filling

4 cups / 400g Poppy seed (ground)
7 tablespoons / 100g Honey or sweetener of choice
¾ cup / 100g Raisins
1 medium / 15g Lemon zest
1 tablespoon / 15g Vanilla extract
⅘ cup / 200g Milk

Baking

1 medium / 50g Egg for egg-wash

How to make nut rolls

Dough

Knead flour, butter, honey or sweetener of choice, yeast and milk. Work in the egg yolks, sour cream and salt too and dough until getting an even texture.
Put dough into a big bowl with a lid on top and let it rise in a 68°F – 81°F /20°C – 27°C place.

Poppy seed filling

Poppy seed doesn’t always come ground. In fact most often than not we have to grind it.
If we don’t have a special poppy seed grinder or something that is able to grind the already small pieces into dust or rather a paste then we have to use our trusty spices grinder. If we have used it for grinding coffee beans, make sure that it is clean before trying our luck with the poppy seeds! Unfortunately, the spices grinder doesn’t really do a great job either, so we probably need to grind the poppy seeds twice to get them fine and black without much whitish specks.
Mix ground poppy seed, honey, raisins, lemon zest, vanilla and milk together in a saucepan.
On medium to low heat bring the milk to boil in low temperature while stirring continuously. Take it off the heat and cool it down otherwise it will ruin the dough.

Assembly

Dust the work surface with flour then divide the dough into 2 parts. Work with one piece at a time, roll out the dough into a ⅛” / 3mm high rectangular shape, the length of our baking tray.
Fill half of the filling along one of the long side of the dough. Mind to leave an empty stripe on one side otherwise the dough can’t be closed properly.
Roll the dough up. Place them onto a buttered or parchment papered baking tray. Brush the top with egg-wash and punch holes alongside with a fork.
Place the dough into the middle rack of a 350°F / 180°C preheated oven then bake until the internal temperature reaches 185°F / 85°C and the top gets a golden brown color, which should happen in about 20-30 minutes depending on the oven.

Enjoy!

All desserts are equal but some are more equal then the others. The more equal ones are the ones that we use to dress up our heart with, while waiting for the special times to come.