Ensaimada

Name: Ensaimada
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 500g strong flour; 100g sugar; 2 eggs; 200ml warm water or milk and 20g fresh yeast; 150g softened lard (saïm); Icing sugar

Ensaïmada/en-sigh-MAH-dah/

Also known as: Ensaimada de Mallorca, Ensaïmada, Mallorcan Pastry

About this dish

A light, spiral-shaped sweet bread from Mallorca made with lard, coiled like a snail and dusted with icing sugar.

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Ingredients

🌾500g strong flour

🍬100g sugar

🥚2 eggs

🥛200ml warm water or milk and 20g fresh yeast

🐖150g softened lard (saïm)

🍚Icing sugar

Method

Serves 3

Knead the flour, sugar, eggs, yeast and liquid into a soft, elastic dough. Rest for 1 hour.

Divide, roll each piece out and stretch it very thinly on an oiled surface.

Spread with lard, roll into a long thin rope and coil into a loose spiral.

Leave to rise for 8–12 hours until tripled in size.

Bake at 180°C (350°F) for 15–20 minutes and dust heavily with icing sugar.

✓ What Makes it Authentic

Ensaïmada de Mallorca has protected status; visitors often fly home from Palma carrying them in big octagonal boxes.

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