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The Best Challah Recipe

The Best Challah Recipe
  • Category

    Yeast Bread

  • Cusine

    American

What do you need?
How to make?

Ingredients

4 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar

1/3 cup vegetable oil

4 large eggs, lightly beaten

1 tablespoon salt

6 to 6 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

In the bowl of a stand mixer, whisk together flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Add eggs, yolks, water, honey, and oil, stirring with a flexible spatula to form a shaggy dough. Fit the mixer with a dough hook and knead on low , mixing until the dough is smooth and begins to pull away from the sides of the bowl, about 10 minutes.