Amazing Challah Bread/Easy and Delicious/No Salt #flouritup #martinmidlifemisadventures #easybread

Hello Friends, today we are making Challah Bread, braided delicious beautiful bread. Here is the recipe, and it can be doubled exactly for 2 loaves.
3 and 1/2 cups AP flour
5 tablespoons sugar
3/4 cup warm water
1 and 1/2 tablespoon yeast
1/4 cup oil (veggie is perfect) melted butter works also
3 eggs
poppy seeds (only if you want them)
Put yeast and 1 tablespoon sugar in warm water, in a large bowl add 3 cups of flour and the remaining 4 tablespoons of sugar, beat 2 eggs well…now add the yeast mixture and the eggs to your flour and stir until dough is shaggy, now add the oil and start kneading, adding a little of the 1/2 cup remaining flour at a time, until dough can be handled without sticking, them put in oiled bowl, cover and rest until doubled, about1 hour. Cut dough into 4 equal parts and roll them into long strips for braiding. Now form your braid, cover and rise 30 mins. Now brush with egg then bake at 350 for 25 to 32 mins. Let it really get browned!!! Enjoy
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Hi everybody welcome back I’m Ashley and this is Martin midlife Misadventures and today we’re going to flower it up and we’re making a Hala all right we’re making a Hala for our Shabbat it is a beautiful braided eggy delicious it’s a very showy bread okay so if you were to

Make this and show up to one of your family feasts with it oh my goodness I think the family would be more than impressed and the taste of it is just as good as the way it looks are you ready let’s get started all right friends for our kala

What we’re going to need is this 3 and 1/2 cups of allpurpose flour a half a cup of vegetable oil or melted butter I have some poppy seeds here this is totally optional and you could use sesame seeds as well I have three eggs two are for the bread making and one is

For the egg wash on top okay we’re going to need 1 and 1/2 tablespoon of instant yeast or you could just use one packet we said about the flour we’re going to need four tablespoons plus one so five total tablespoons of sugar and just so you know four tablespoons of sugar is

A/4 cup okay so we will need 1/4 cup of sugar plus 1 tablespoon to add to our water which I already have done and this is 3/4 of cup of warm water and we are going to add our one and a half tablespoons in here and I’m going to get

The dry ingredients in a bowl all right friends in our Bowl here I’ve added three cups of flour my four tablespoons of sugar 1/4 cup of sugar are in here I’m just going to give it a little mix around I’ve got my yeast over to the

Side that I added to my 3/4 of a cup of warm water and sugar we’re going to go to go ahead and dump that right in the center I’ve got my two large eggs in here and I’m just going to beat them up dump that

In and go ahead in this same cup and measure out your 1/4 cup of oil all right I put 1/4 cup of oil in here but we’re going to set it to the side remember I said 3 and 1/2 cups of flour I have my half2 cup of flour right here

Okay that we’re going to add slowly but let’s get the egg mixture and the yeast mixture all mixed into what we have right now do this with just a rubber spatula works the best is what I found now this is one of those breads that it takes some kneading okay it is a

Bread we have to need look at that so far looks good nice and Shaggy and now we’re going to add our oil it’s very moist here today we’re at like 90 something per humidity and uh it’s very cold in with the oil just dump it all over now we’re

Going to get in there with our hands and we’re going to start kneading if we feel like we need more flour which we might not we have a whole half a cup of flour here we can work with so let’s get our hands in there and start folding it on

Itself okay get in there don’t be afraid of it we are going to need some dough whenever you’re needing dough and it has eggs in it it’s kind of a little bit of a different texture let me get my sleeve here all right it’s coming together beautifully it’s just getting a little

Stickiness now okay now I am going to add flour one more time and you’re probably thinking I thought you said need and don’t add flour this is different we’re we’re adding flour into it it’s actually part of the recipe and we just want to slowly get it worked

Into this dough and believe me when you see the end result of this bread it is worth all the time and effort that it takes okay let’s look at this dough look at this dough it’s done it’s not sticking anymore it’s just absolutely perfect and it’s heavy this

Is three and 1/2 cups not quite probably used about 3 and a qu but I’ve done this before so I know how it’s supposed to feel so just keep in mind if this is your first time as you’re slowly adding this flour in because it’s a process it

Just makes the dough come out in these layers and it’s delicious so anyway just keep in mind when you finally get it to a point where you don’t see any flow on it and you can handle it like that and nothing sticks to your hand hands your

Dough is ready for proofing okay you definitely want to stop adding flour at that point let’s put a little bitty drop of oil in the bottom of the pan and a tiny little drop on top we’re going to put a lid on this and

We are going to set it in a warm spot until it doubles in size and that should take about an hour let’s open it up and see what old we we are doubled would you look at that looks fantastic so let’s pull it out and trust

Me when I say you will not need one bit of flour on your board okay get it and gather it up into a little ball don’t mess with it too much okay going to put it down and we’re going to cut this into four as equal pieces as we can

Get I’m going to do a four strand braid you can certainly certainly just do three if you don’t want to try this I should actually get Amy in here cuz she braids much better than I do so you have your little triangles here each little triangle get them into a little ball so

We can set them aside okay now we’re going to start by taking it because we need to make these in Long strips right so what I found is if you roll from the middle out okay from the middle and then out do it for a couple Strokes on the

Inside and then the middle out they’ll slowly start to form into these longer pieces but we need them even longer than this and that’s it that’s what we’re going to do to all three of the rest of them all right we’ve got all four of them I’ve lined my cookie sheet with

Some parchment paper I’m limited on how big I can make this because of the oven I cook it in okay but we are going to braid this thing and I have to do mine on an angle on this cookie sheet in order to fit in my o oven as to where you could

Probably use a large cookie sheet I’m just stretching these all out to about the same size see that now the important part of this is this you’ve got to get these things sealed together okay so let’s just kind of Stack one on top of the other see see how they’re kind of

Twisted together right here and I’m going to give them another twist and then I’m going to tuck them under okay for now we’re going to do another little check on this before we let this rise so all right let’s braid it we’re going to start by bringing the outside

In okay so we’re going to take this one and let me tell you you want to get these tight okay when you’re braiding these you want to get them tight because they will separate so bring the outside in bring the outside in and when you bring them

In Cross these inside here like that see we want this tight you want a tight braid as tight as you can get it now we’re going to bring the outside in the outside in and cross these two okay I’m trying to do this slowly and you want these tight okay you want this

Braid tight Here We Go Again outside in outside in now cross the two in the center do you see how we’re doing this yes it’s very simple outside in outside in and we’re going to cross these two and we want to pull them and make them kind of tight okay all right

Outside in outside in Cross them Crossing them now here we’re at the end of this braid and what I’m going to do is I’m going to tuck them under and I want to get them tight in there okay just take one at a time and I’m going to get it really tight under

There look at your whole piece of bread here do you see isn’t that pretty we are going to cover this with a tea Tow and we are going to let it rise until it doubles it could take 20 minutes it could take 30 when you think you’re

About 10 minutes away preheat that oven to 350 all right let’s check her out look at that beauty would you look at that I think our ends are tucked good I sure hope they are but it’ll still taste the same no matter what I’ve got one egg here and I added about a

Teaspoon of water to it and I have whip whip whip whip whip I mean you really want to whip this up okay and now you are going to very Liber liberally coat this with this egg I mean coat it get down in the little nooks and crannies down in here get your egg

Everywhere in there because this is what makes it just beautiful now this is when you add your seeds I’m using poppy seeds today and we’re just going to sprinkle some seeds on top of it for that aesthetic because we sure know it doesn’t really add any flavor but it sure makes it look

Pretty all right let’s get it in the oven I am wiping up a little of the extra egg because I don’t want scrambled eggs on my pan but let’s put it in this is going to take anywhere between M 25 and 35 minutes and I will let you know exactly how long hours

Cooks woo would you look at this bread it is done we are just a few minutes shy of 30 minutes that it took to cook it oh my goodness would you look at that we okay see how I said you got to get your braid tight my braid but that’s okay it is

Still absolutely beautiful and it is going to taste delicious now it’s still very hot but I want you to see how beautiful it is I think we should cut a little piece let’s see I’m going to cut it like right here do you hear the crisp I’m barely pressing I’m doing this onehanded

Onehanded guys now look look at this steamy you see how fluffy oh my goodness it’s just beautiful I’m going to cut a little piece and butter it and let Amy try it Ryan smells the bread okay got our bread oh guess what I have in my hand for you who

You come see come see do you see that with all that butter oh it’s just so so good hey this is like Wilson I can hand it to you over the fence oh look at how beautiful this is my favorite bread it is huh mhm this is my favorite bread it’s so

Good all right you enjoy that’s so good all right everybody what do you think about that bread isn’t it amazing and it’s Universal I’m talking French toast sandwiches you could make stuffing from it just name it this is the bread and the dough itself oh it makes great

Danishes as well so if you master this dough you can make quite a a few different things with it okay I know it’s a little harder of a recipe but that’s okay you can do it we are controlling what we’re putting in our bodies we are we are saving a ton of

Money too by baking for ourselves and I know that this is a little bit more costly with the three eggs okay but sometimes you got to have a special bread and this one this one steals the show make this one and bring it to your Feast oh my goodness your family is just

Going to be so impressed it’s so delicious and I really hope you’ll give it a try all right everybody keep flowering it up and do not stop keep telling us all about it we love you so much God bless you