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Pogača

Name: Pogača
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Serbia
Ingredients: 500g Bread flour; 7g Dry yeast; 250ml Milk; 1 Egg; 60ml Sunflower oil; 2 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 1 tbsp White Sesame Seeds

Snack

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

A big, round, fluffy Serbian bread baked for celebrations.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pogača is a round bread found throughout the Balkans; in Serbia it's baked for weddings, christenings, and slava, the feast of a family's patron saint. It's decorated with carved patterns or braids and offered to guests with salt. Its dough is soft and light, eaten with cheese or ajvar.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a slava day in a Serbian home, a big round patterned loaf sits at the center of the table and is cut for arriving guests.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 500g
Dry yeast 7g
Milk 250ml
Egg 1
Sunflower oil 60ml
Sugar 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
White Sesame Seeds 1 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and sugar in milk warmed to body temperature.
Add the bread flour, salt, egg (reserving a little yolk), and oil and knead for 10 minutes.
Cover in a bowl and let rise 1 hour until doubled.
Punch down, shape into a round, place in a pan, score a pattern on top, and let rise 30 minutes.
Brush with the reserved yolk, scatter with white sesame seeds, and bake at 190°C for 30 minutes.

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