Salty strudels - "Danish krone"
This is one of my first recipes from Germany… and since I lived in the very north of Germany probably from there and this name…
Preparation steps
- Put the yeast with a little sugar and milk to ferment for about 15 minutes.
- Sift flour, add salt, stir, add egg, yeast and finally 50 gr. butter (room temperature) and make a dough from the listed ingredients.
- Make a good dough with your hands for at least 5 minutes and then leave it to rise for about 1 hour.
- Roll out the dough into a rectangle and coat it with the remaining butter, then fold it as for puff pastry on all sides. Leave to rise again, about half an hour.
- Repeat the process once more but now without butter and leave the dough in the fridge to rest for half an hour.
- Meanwhile, fry the chopped onion in the fat until it gets a golden yellow color. Take it aside and add bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, almonds, a little salt, pepper and finally a beaten egg.
- Roll out the dough in the shape of a rectangle (today I measured 23 cm in width and about 50 cm in length) and put the filling evenly on it over the entire surface.
- Wrap it like a roll and then transfer the dough to wax paper because it will be easier for you to transfer the strudel to the baking tray. The roll is then cut in half and the cut sides turned upwards.
- Then transfer the strips over each other making a braid, and make a circle out of them. Join the ends of the strudel - switch them over each other.
- Finally, coat the strudel with a little milk, sprinkle over sesame seeds, between your fingers parmesan cheese and almond leaves.
- Bake the strudel in a preheated oven at 190 degrees, 20 minutes (until golden brown) and then cover with foil and bake for an additional 25 minutes. Since all ovens are different, make sure that the strudel does not burn because it is very easy to happen, due to the listed ingredients of the filling (onion, crumbs…).
Serving
In the same way I make (roll) a sweet poppy seed strudel.