Bejgli

Bejgli is a typical Hungarian christmas dessert. Bejgli is a sweet yeast dough which is filled with poppy and walnuts and then rolled up and baked. Poppy might surprise or astonish some people, but in Hungary we like it and make a lot of cake from it.
Bejgli is a seasonal dessert and only made at christmas time, but no christmas can be celebrated without bejgli. The traditional bejgli is filled with poppy and walnut, but modern versions are also exist such as jam, chesnut, chocolate filled bejgli.
This recipe is from my grandmother who makes poppy and walnut filled bejgli for us every christmas. This year we made it together. We made 6 rolls, but this recipe is just for two rolls and the fillings are for one roll.

Ingredients:

• 500 flour
• pint of salt
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• half package yeast
•  150 ml milk
• 150 g butter

Filling:
walnut:

• 250 g walnut meal
• 1 apple
• 100 g sugar 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

poppy:

• 250 g poppy (granulated)
• 1 apple
• 100 g sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

1. Dissolve the yeast with a pinch of sugar in 150 ml of warm milk.

2. Mix all the ingredient and knead the dough. 

3. Let it rise for 30 minutes.

4. Peel and grate the apple.

5. Add the walnut, sugar and vanilla sugar.

5. Mix the poppy, sugar, vanilla sugar, and add a peeled, grated apple. 

6. Half the dough.

7. Roll them out.

8. Spread the filling on the dough.

9. Roll up the dough along the longer side.

10. Spread egg yolk on the top of the rolls with a brush.

11. Leave it dry for 15 minutes. 

12. Bake for about 30 minutes on 200 C°.