Honeycomb Bread
- Soomaali
- Rooti Shinnidhaab
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- Pain nid d’abeille
- العربية
- خلية النحل
By Leila & Abdullahi · ·
We usually bake this bread during the month of Ramadan (the month of fasting for Muslims) and serve it as a sweet dish. The soft, cheese-filled bread is soaked with a sugar syrup that makes it particularly suitable for iftar. One of the main objectives of Ramadan is to teach a person self-control and there is no better way to measure a person’s progress on this issue than to see how he/she can resist overindulging on this sweet dish.
Preparing this bread is a fun project for children: spreading the dough pieces with the fingers, placing the filling, shaping them into small balls, and brushing them with milk. These are tasks that can be handled very easily by children. The very small buns are also a perfect finger food that they will love.
One thing we like about this bread is how versatile it can be. Instead of cream cheese, we have also used other fillings: cooked apples, chocolate pieces, peanut butter, date paste, raisins, sweetened coconut. You can serve the bread without the syrup. At times, we have also used savoury fillings such potatoes and peas, small meatballs, and chicken. Be creative. That is what cooking is about.
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Ingredients
1 cup = 237 mL · 1 Tbsp = 15 mL · 1 tsp = 5 mL. All are level measurements.
Honeycomb Bread
Syrup
Method
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Steps for preparing the bread Combine the lukewarm milk, the yeast and 1 teaspoon of sugar. Stir well then let the yeast activate for 10 minutes.
In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder, and butter, then add the yeast mixture.
Mix the dough ingredients then knead for 5 minutes. Cover the bowl with a damp kitchen towel and let the dough rise for 1 hour.
Cut the dough in half and shape each half into a cylindrical shape. Divide each cylinder into 16 equal pieces. You will end up with 32 dough pieces.
Flatten each dough piece with your fingers then place half a teaspoon of cream cheese on it. You can also use cooked apples (or the fruit of your choice), a piece of chocolate, peanut butter, date paste, raisins, sweetened coconut, etc…
Enclose the cheese with the dough as shown in the video, then roll the dough ball in the palm of your hands.
Place the dough balls in a buttered 9½ inch (24 cm) pan, spacing them evenly.
Brush the tops of the balls with milk.
Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes at 380°F/193°C. After baking, pour on top a sugar syrup made of 1 cup sugar, 1 cup water, and half a teaspoon of lemon juice, boiled together for 10 minutes. You could also serve the delicious buns without the syrup.
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I made this for a gathering and got so many complements, everyone loved it! They were fighting for the last few pieces
Hi! Thank you for this recipe! I actually had the same exact measurements for ingredients but I am wondering why my bread turns up so packed. The procedure was just verbally shared over to me. Now I know what I did wrongly. Will surely try this recipe again with the correct procedure! Thanks a lot!
Hi A&L, Thank you for sharing your recipes which look wonderful on the videos,tried you honeycomb bread recipe, it did’nt turn out the same as shown in your videa fully and soft it is because I used plain flour coz in you recipe it says all purpose (plain flour) res all was done as shown in your video and recipe. What I made was a bit solid not fluffy, can you please advise what may have gone wrong. looking forward to hearing from you. thanks.
my sister always makes honeycomb bread its great and i hope in the future to try more of your ingredients
Wllo su aal ban qaba dhexda cajiin iga noqotay naxan ku sameeya