This beautiful tri-color challah bread will truly inspire bakers! This is my favorite way to modify the traditional challah bread recipe. It's tasty, easy to make, and love.
Total Time1 hourhr
Course: bread
Cuisine: Kosher
Author: Mike Nadelman
Ingredients
Dough Ingredients:
300gramsflour
1tsp.yeast
½tsp.salt
1tbsp.brown sugar
2eggs
3tbsp.oil
2/3cupwater
Add On:
1cuploosely packed spinach leaves or 1/2 cup frozen spinach
Mix the flour, yeast, salt, brown sugar, eggs, oil, and water. Knead until dough is smooth and elastic. Brush the dough with oil, cover with a towel, and put the bowl in a warm place. Let the dough rise for approximately 1 hour.
Divide dough into 3 equal pieces.
Add chocolate to 1 strand. This will be your dark brown strand.
Knead the tomato paste into one piece. This will be your red strand.
Soak the spinach in water with 1 tsp. salt. Drain and puree. Add the spinach puree to the third piece of dough. This will be your green strand.
Roll each piece of dough out to the same length strand. Braid.
Place the braided loaf on a parchment-paper-lined baking tray, cover with a towel, and let rise for 30 minutes.