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Rainbow Challah

Ingredients

Yeast

  • 1 1/4 c lukewarm water
  • 4 tsp active dry yeast
  • 1 tsp sugar

Dough

  • 1/4 c cooking oil
  • 1/4 - 1/3 c sugar depending how sweet you'd like your loaf to be
  • a tsp of salt
  • 4 eggs
  • 5 c of flour

Challah

  • gel food coloring
  • an egg diluted in a little water
  • poppy seeds

Instructions

Yeast

  • Sprinkle water with sugar followed with yeast and let bloom for 10 mins, stir

Dough

  • In a large bowl, pour cooking oil, sugar, salt, eggs, stir to combine
  • Add in 4 c of flour, stir
  • Pour in yeast mixture and add in another 1 c of flour, knead
  • Let dough stand to rise in warm place for about 45 mins

Challah

  • Once dough has risen, punch down and slice into 5 portions
  • Color per dough with one food color (gel food color only please). I use red, blue, orange, green and purple. The depth of the color is depending how you like it to be. Can be pastel or darker color.
  • Once dough are colored, let them rise again in warm place for 20-25 mins
  • After 20-25 mins resting, roll each dough into ropes (as you can see my ropes are bumpy, to avoid that, cover dough before letting it rise and once risen, knead - if you aren't as lazy as me tho :))
  • Braid ropes and place it into a loaf pan (or you can just use regular baking sheet!)
  • Brush with an egg diluted in a little water, and sprinkle with poppy seeds (or not, as you wish)
  • Bake bread in preheated 350 F for 30-35 mins (should sound hollow when tap with a knife or finger)