Apples - Challah!


On the Jewish New Year involves a lot of sweet culinary customs that sweet was all coming year. But on the holiday table necessarily, it's apples, bread and honey. All three main characters Rosh Hashanah can be combined into a single apple Hale - but not simple, and round.


You will need:


for the dough

1st. spoon of yeast

1 cup of warm water

½ cup + 1 tbsp. sugar spoon

2 eggs

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon salt

4 cups flour


For filling

5 apples

½ cup sugar

1 tbsp. cinnamon spoon



The main practice of which is well known both adults and children - are on New Year apples with honey. Apples begin long before the start of the holiday - at children's parties and away, dipping in honey and asking the Almighty that the new year was sweet. On New Year's table, in addition to apples, it has to be challah, not some, but round - a symbol of wholeness and infinity - it is also dipped in honey.


With apples, bread and honey connected with lots of Christmas recipes - new and old, designed to combine all three main characters of the New Year together. One of the best inventions of the year - round bread with apples, which, as you guessed, is served together with honey.


The dough is prepared for him as well as for the challah dough. Then do not weave his braids and rolled and wrapped him slices of apples. Smeared with honey, or concentrated sugar and put in the oven. The whole process takes a lot of time, but the result is worth it - apple challah can become the main decoration for your holiday table. New Year's sweet!


Cooking method


Mix together the yeast, water and a tablespoon of sugar, leave for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, add the egg mixture, remaining sugar, vegetable oil, salt, and in the last instance - the flour. Flour should be added in small portions, while kneading the dough. When the dough is smooth, cover it with a towel and leave for a few hours. When the dough is well rise, remove it from the bowl and roll out as thin as possible, but so that it does not start to tear.


Cut the apple slices. Stand back from the edges of the dough with one hand about 10 cm and place the apples so as to obtain an even number. Sprinkle the apples with sugar and cinnamon and then cover the dough, which you left at the edge. Then place on an uncovered part of a number of apples, again sprinkle them with sugar and cinnamon and cover it with that part of the test, in which you have already turned the previous layer of apples. Do this one more time. As a result, you get something like a flat apple strudel.


This roll can be put on a baking sheet and bake as is, and can be cut into pieces and put into a round shape by placing between the pieces of roll remaining slices of apples. In the second case, you'll have a round loaf with apple stuffing and apple as inserts between the segments. Malic khala Bake at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.


Prepared by Anna Markova,