Chocolate Chip Challah Bread

Name: Chocolate Chip Challah Bread
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 33
Cuisine: Jewish
Ingredients: 5 teaspoons packets active dry yeast; 2 larges eggs; 2 liters all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting; 1 Tbsp salt; 237 milliliters semisweet chocolate chips; 118 milliliters sugar, plus a pinch; 118 milliliters vegetable oil, plus more for the bowl

The recipe Chocolate Chip Challah Bread is ready in roughly 45 minutes and is definitely a great dairy free option for lovers of Jewish food. This recipe makes 33 servings with 177 calories, 4g of protein, and 6g of fat each. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works well as a very affordable bread for Hanukkah. If you have sugar, eggs, semisweet chocolate chips, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

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Mix the yeast, a pinch of sugar and 1 cup warm water in a small bowl. Set aside while you measure out the other dry ingredients, or until frothy.

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Sugar

Water

Yeast

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Bowl

Whisk 3 1/2 cups flour, the remaining 1/2 cup sugar and the salt in a large bowl.

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All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Pour in the yeast mixture and stir with a wooden spoon.

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Yeast

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Wooden Spoon

Add 1 egg, the vegetable oil and 1 cup warm water; stir until combined. Gradually stir in the remaining 3 1/2 cups flour until the dough starts to come together.

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Vegetable Oil

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Water

Egg

Mix in the chocolate chips.

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Chocolate Chips

Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and knead until smooth, about 8 minutes.

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Dough

Transfer to a large oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in size, 1 hour to 1 hour, 30 minutes.

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Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Bowl

Divide the dough into 3 equal portions. On a floured surface, roll each portion into a ball, then roll each ball into a 1 1/2-to-2-inch-wide strand, about 16 inches long.

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Roll

Lay the strands side by side on a sheet of parchment paper and pinch them together at one end.

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Braid the 3 strands: Cross the right strand over the middle strand. Then cross the left strand over the middle strand. Repeat, crossing the right strand over the middle strand, then the left over the middle, until all of the dough is braided. Pinch the dough together at the end.

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Dough

Slide the loaf (with the parchment paper) onto a baking sheet. Beat the remaining egg with 1 tablespoon water in a small bowl, then brush the egg wash all over the loaf.

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Water

Egg

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet