Greek Biscotti Demo
Hello and welcome to the great Greek biscotti demo video. The video is really good and shows demo on how to prepare delicious Greek Biscotti. The recipe seems to be wonderful and also very delicious. The demonstration is also very good as everything is shown stepwise
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Yesas, welcome to my Greek kitchen, I am Maria Nicholas lovely known by my grandchildren as Yiayia Maria, Yiayia means grandma in Greek. Have you ever been to coffee shop? And ordered the delicious cup of coffee and ordered a biscotti and it was very hot. Well today I am going to show you a recipe and show you how easy it is to make delicious Greek biscotti. The recipe is in my cook book Yiayia’s Favorite Greek Recipes.
The ingredients of Greek biscotti, 1 pound unsalted butter softened, 2 cups granulated sugar, 3 jumbo eggs or 4 large eggs beaten, I teaspoon ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 2 teaspoons vanilla, a half a teaspoon of salt, 5 to 6 cups of all purpose flour, and for the topping one beaten egg for glazing the tops of the loaves and sliced almonds for the toppings.
Okay, let’s get started. Before you bake anything we have all the ingredients at room temperature. This is our 1 pound of softened butter and you go oops, that happens sometimes. Okay what we are going to do is piss this. Now we are going to add the sugar a little bit at a time. Start the creaming, while the butter and the sugar are creaming I will go over the other ingredients. Here we have 4 eggs which I am going to beat; we need to blend them well. Next we have the liquid which is the two teaspoons of vanilla which will go in. And then we have cinnamon, baking powder, sugar and then the flour. Next we have the eggs and you go all of them and then we blend them well. Next the vanilla goes in. we then put cinnamon which gives that delicious Greek flavor, salt and give it a little blend. Then we want to take a little bit of flour and mix the baking powder with it. And in it goes; you should blend it well, putting the flour little bit at a time. Now the dough has finished mixing we put a little flour on the corner and knead it ones or twice.
This time it took six cups of flour. We are going to make four loaves, cut them evenly. You can make six loaves and the biscotti can be a little smaller. I like to separate them and have my pans ready, my cookie sheets I have put parchment paper on it. It’s easier after the loaves are baked to lift the parchment paper and take it out. So this is how we are going to do it. This is just the beginning; we are just getting it on to the pan. And then we finish forming it on the pans. Hmmm this dough smells so good with all the butter in it. Now I am going to use my little rolling pin to flatten it out you want to flatten the dough so it is about half an inch thick. Any thicker than that and the biscotti loaves will crack and you won’t be able to cut them properly. Just this takes little bit of time but the time and effort you spend on it now give you a better finished product. This is also good for the hands, look at all the nice butter on your hands giving you nice smooth skin. Here I have got all my four loaves completed, now you don’t have to use one of these rollers if you don’t have one you can use a glass or just your fingers. I just like to get them all smooth. Okay now I am ready for the egg wash, I like to do a generous egg wash because it gives it a nice rosy color. These are going to be delicious just generously brush the egg wash on, it is little bit too much. Okay we get all the four these done.
And then we go for topping, another topping you can use is chocolate, if you wish you can dip the finished biscotti and chocolate and roll it in walnuts. But this time we are just going to use almonds. Okay all finish with that, now I would like to take the almonds in my hand and crush them up because then its easier to cut off its body after they are baked. And the p just is having all almonds and now that all of these are topped with the almonds and the egg wash, its time to put them in the 350 degree preheated oven. And we are going to bake them for about 30 minutes, here we go. The biscotti loaves are out of the oven and I have started to slice them. You need a very sharp knife; I like to cut the end off to give each biscotti piece a nice finished look. You can get from ten to twelve biscotti out of each loaf depending on how big you wanna to slice them. A good sharp knife or a sweded knife is good for this.
You have to be very careful as you’re putting them back on to the pan to toast them because at this point they are still very fragile till they are toasted. So very slowly and carefully put them in the pan. We are going to toast them 10 minutes on each side and occasionally you will have that breaks and falls apart but that’s okay. That just means one more for the baker to eat. Okay just about finished here, toasted on one side I now turning the first pan over to toast on the other side for another 7 to 10 minutes and then the biscotti will be finished. See how easy was to do this and you have about three dozen or four dozen wonderful delicious biscotti. I have turned them over on the other side I will put them back in the oven to toast again for about 7 to 10 minutes. Now the second side id finished toasting we will take them out of the oven, and cool them. Here they are the great biscotti ready to serve. That recipe and others can be found in my cook book Yiayia’s Favorite Greek Recipes that you can find on Amazon.com.
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