Hungarian Traditional Food | This is a traditional Hungarian Beigli 🇭🇺..

Here’s a traditional Hungarian Beigli 🇭🇺 recipe — a festive rolled pastry filled with walnut or poppy seed paste, especially popular at Christmas and Easter.

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Hungarian Beigli (Walnut or Poppy Seed Roll)

Ingredients (makes 2 rolls)

Dough:

• 500 g (4 cups) all-purpose flour
• 200 g (7 oz) unsalted butter, cold, cubed
• 50 g (¼ cup) sugar
• 5 g (1 tsp) salt
• 20 g (0.7 oz) fresh yeast or 7 g (2¼ tsp) active dry yeast
• 125 ml (½ cup) lukewarm milk
• 2 egg yolks
• 100 g (3½ oz) sour cream

Walnut Filling:

• 200 g (7 oz) ground walnuts
• 100 g (½ cup) sugar
• 125 ml (½ cup) milk
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar
• Zest of 1 lemon
• Optional: 50 g (1¾ oz) raisins soaked in rum

OR Poppy Seed Filling:

• 200 g (7 oz) ground poppy seeds
• 100 g (½ cup) sugar
• 125 ml (½ cup) milk
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar
• Zest of 1 lemon
• Optional: raisins soaked in rum

For Brushing:

• 1 egg yolk (for first coat)
• 1 egg white (for final coat)

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