Breakfastchallenging810 minServes 4est. 35p/servingSpanish

Ensaimada

Name: Ensaimada
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 18 min
Total time: 810 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 5g fast-action dried yeast; 200g caster sugar; 2 egg; 600g strong white bread flour; 100g lard

Mallorcan spiral pastry — an enriched dough spread with lard, stretched extremely thin, rolled into snakes, then coiled into spirals and left to prove for 12–24 hours. The result is feather-light and faintly flaky. A traditional Spanish pastry that needs patience but very little active work. Makes 4 large spirals.

4 servings

35p / serving - est.

Costs are estimated average UK prices and may vary.

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fast-action dried yeast

5 g

£1.00est.

caster sugar

200 g

10pest.

egg

20pest.

strong white bread flour

600 g

10pest.

vegetable oil

to taste

15pest.

lard

100 g

15pest.