Tutmanik, bread in layers
Ideal bread for breakfast or dinner and can be served with appetizers with your guests.
Preparation steps
- Put yeast, a teaspoon of sugar and a few tablespoons of flour in warm water, stir and set aside for the yeast to rise.
- Put 650 g of all-purpose flour and 100 g of bread flour in a mixing bowl, add beaten eggs, sour cream and sourdough and knead everything together until it starts to separate from the sides of the bowl. (you can use the whole amount of all-purpose flour if desired) Shake on the work surface and continue to knead, if necessary add a little more flour of those 100 g. I only needed one tablespoon and you will need the rest later when you thin the dough (maybe not everything). Place a smooth and slightly sticky dough. Shape the dough into a ball, return it to the mixing bowl, coat with a little oil, cover with nylon and leave in a warm place to rise for about an hour.
- Pour the risen dough on the work surface and mix it. Sprinkle a little flour on the work surface and roll the dough into a cube about 40cm X 40cm
- I freeze the butter because it’s easier for me to grate it frozen and grate a third of the butter over the stretched dough, sprinkle with a third of the cheese (I used 200g of cottage cheese and 100g of feta, I mixed both and sprinkled with a third of the cheese, you if you use feta cheese , grate it over butter).
- Fold the filled dough like an envelope.
- Flour the work surface, turn the folded edges downwards and slowly start to thin the dough with a rolling pin, into a cube of the same size as at the beginning, 40X40. If the dough sticks to the top when melting, sprinkle it lightly with a little flour. When you have dissolved the dough into a cube, grate another third of the frozen butter again and sprinkle with another third of the cheese. Fold the dough in the shape of an envelope again. Flour the work surface and again spread the dough into a cube 40 X 40. Grate the last third of the butter and sprinkle with the last third of the cheese and fold the dough again like an envelope.
- Cover the 28 cm baking tray with baking paper, transfer the folded dough and turn the folded sides towards the bottom of the baking tray. Cut the letter X with a sharp knife, but not until the end of the test.
- Now you will cut the dough between X with + so you get 8 pieces of dough, cut the same as you cut and X
- At the end of those eight pieces in the middle you will cut a cube (see picture, to make it clearer to you)
- Beat the egg, coat the dough and sprinkle with seeds as desired. Turn on the oven to 175 * C, put the pan in a cold oven and bake for about 30 minutes, if it starts to blush too much, cover with foil or baking paper and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes (the original recipe says to cover the dough for the first 30 minutes and only the last 10 up to 15 minutes for the dough to uncover and bake..I don't like pale dough, so I baked in my own way, as you wish).
- Leave the dough in the pan to cool and serve warm.
- Pleasant !!!!
Serving
The recipe is from one of the many Bulgarian blogs with some of my changes.