Happy New Year with a German Stollen Recipe

A new year is just around the corner and we will soon add another amazing one to the documents. The team at Lantmännen would like to thank all the customers, distributors and everyone else we have had the privilege of having contact with for an exciting year. We look forward to the new year with you.

To wrap up this year we would like to share a tasty recipe of a famous and beloved German pastry; German Stollen, kindly provided by our friends at Navitalo.

German Christmas Stollen

Ingredients

  • 900 g wheat flour
  • 300 g margarine (Palm-free)
  • 150 g brown rice syrup
  • 20 g oat drink powder
  • 300 ml water
  • 300 g raisins
  • 50 g yeast
  • 100 g almonds
  • 10 g oat beta-glucan
  • 10 g salt
  • vanilla, cinnamon
  • powder sugar

Instructions

  1. Put raisins, almonds, vanilla, and cinnamon in 100 ml water overnight.
  2. The next day mix wheat flour, oat drink powder, 50g of rice syrup, yeast, oat beat-glucan and water to a dough. Let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
  3. In the meantime, mix margarine and 100 g brown rice syrup, add the dough to the margarine and rice syrup and mix it for 5 minutes, add the raisins and almonds and mix until well combined.
  4. Knead the dough lengthwise into the typical shape of a Christstollen and fill it in the baking tray. Let the dough rest for another 30 minutes.
  5. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 200 degrees, when you put the Christstollen in the oven turn the temperature down to 160 degrees.
  6. After baking, cool down and dust with powdered sugar.

 

Wishing you a happy holiday season and a peaceful New Year, from the team at Lantmännen Functional Foods.