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Potica

Name: Potica
Total time: 180 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Slovenia
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 2 Egg; 80g Butter; 120g Sugar; A pinch Salt; 300g Walnuts; 3 tbsp Honey; 100ml Heavy Cream; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 180 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Walnut paste rolled in thin dough and baked in a swirl — Slovenia's celebration sweet bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Potica is a swirled sweet bread essential at Slovenian Christmas and Easter: yeast dough is rolled thin, spread with honeyed walnut paste, rolled up, and baked in a special round pan. Its beautiful swirled cross-section is its hallmark, and besides walnut, there are said to be over 80 fillings, including tarragon, poppy seed, and cottage cheese.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Christmas morning in Slovenia, a swirled sweet bread is turned out of its round pan and sliced to reveal brown walnut spirals.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 6g
Milk 200ml
Egg 2
Butter 80g
Sugar 120g
Salt A pinch
Walnuts 300g
Honey 3 tbsp
Heavy Cream 100ml
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, 50g sugar, salt, warm milk, 1 egg, and 50g butter and let rise 1 hour.
Finely crush the walnuts and mix with warm cream, honey, the remaining sugar, melted butter, cinnamon, and 1 egg into a paste.
Roll the dough into a thin rectangle, spread with the paste, and roll up from the edge.
Place in a buttered pan and rest 30 minutes.
Bake at 170°C for 50 minutes and dust with powdered sugar once cool.

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