Bolo Rei is one of the most typical Portuguese sweets, that has a very long tradition. Its history, according to the legend, dates from over 2000 years ago. Find out how to make it at home!
Ingredients:
- 175 g mixed, candied fruits
- 100 ml Porto wine
- 100 ml warm water
- 30 g baker's yeast
- 750 g flour
- 150 g margarine
- 5 medium size eggs
- 1 lemon zest
- 1 orange zest
- 1 tsp salt
- 100 g pine nuts
- 100 g walnuts
- 100 g almonds
- 100 g raisins
- 50 g powdered sugar
Directions:
Phase 1:
- chop candied fruits and nuts (leave some apart for the decoration of Bolo Rei)
- take a bowl and put mix fruits into
- pour Porto wine over chopped fruits and soak them
Phase 2:
- take another bowl and put yeasts
- add warm water and dissolve yeasts in it
- add 1 cup of flour to yeasts and mix it well
- use cling foil to cover the bowl with yeasts mixed with flour, leave in a warm place for about 15 minutes
Phase 3:
- take another bowl and mix margarine with sugar
- add 4 eggs and white from the fifth to the mixture of margarine with sugar
- add lemon and orange zest to eggs with margarine and sugar
- add to it fermented yeasts
- add the remaining flour and salt
- mix the dough well (knead it till the moment you get an elastic and homogenous mixture)
- add soaked, candied fruits and knead it again
Phase 4:
- chop the remaining part of candied fruits and leave apart
- form a ball from the dough and sprinkle with flour
- cover with cling foil and leave for 3 hours to let it double the volume
Phase 5:
- form wreath from the dough
- put baking paper on the oven plate
- preheat the oven up to 180º C
- in the meantime, beat the yolk and spread it over the wreath
- décor the dough with remaining, chopped fruits
- put powdered sugar in three heaps on the dough
- when the oven reaches 180º C, put your Bolo Rei into and bake for about 35 – 45 minutes
- after that time, let it cool down before serving
- cut into 15 slices
Bom apetite!
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