CZECH REPUBLIC – Kolach with Cheese and Plum Jam Filling
Recipe created by Chef Naheed Peerzada
Our current jam – the Kolach with Cheese and Plum Jam!
Recipe Ingredients
Ingredient
Weight
For Kolach:
| All-Purpose Flour | 700gm |
| Pillsbury™ High Fibre Bread Concentrate | 300gm |
| Milk | 500ml |
| Sugar | 150gm |
| Oil | 6 tbsp |
| Softened Butter | 3 tbsp |
| Vanilla Essence | 1 tbsp |
| Egg Yolks | 3 |
| Yeast | 50gm |
| Lemon Peel | |
| Egg, for Glazing | |
| Oil, for Greasing |
For Filling:
| Soft Cheese | 500gm |
| Raisins (wash and drain) | 3 tbsp |
| Sugar | 3 tbsp |
| Vanilla Essence | 1 tbsp |
| Egg Yolk | 1 |
| Lemon Juice | 1 tbsp |
| Plum Jam | 1 jar |
Preparation
- Sift the flours directly into a large bowl. To it, add egg yolks, yeast, sugar, softened butter, milk, oil, lemon peel and vanilla essence.
- Knead until you have a smooth dough, then cover with a cling film and store in a warm place to rise until it is double in size.
- Repeat this step two more times. Ensure that you punch the dough with your fist and knead before setting it aside.
- Now, mix soft cheese with yolk, sugar, vanilla essence, raisins and lemon juice.
- Roll the dough on a lightly floured surface, then cut out 20 same-sized circles.
- With a bottom of a glass make an indentation in the circles of dough, then fill them with the cheese filling.
- Transfer the dough into a greased baking tray.
- Drop a dollop of plum jam onto the cheese filling.
- Leave the tray allowing the dough to rise a bit.
- Glaze the rim of dough around the dough with an egg wash.
- Bake in the oven preheated to 180°C for 20 minutes, or until the edges are golden brown.
