HONEYCOMB BREAD

Moist, Soft, Buttery rolls soaked in sugar syrup and filled with cheese

Honeycomb Bread or Khailat Nahal is a popular Yemeni bread which actually means beehive because of its resemblance to a honeycomb and due to its honey flavored syrup glazing. This delicious pull apart sweetened bread can be made as breakfast, for Iftar or even as a dessert.

The cheese filling can also be replaced with nutella, melted chocolate ore peanut butter. The kids for sure will opt for nutella. I prefer cheese. The flavor of cheese filled in the rolls soaked in sugar syrup is yum.

My Elder son requested me to make these on the first day of Iftar this Ramadan. This can also be made ahead can be heated in oven at the time of having them. I actually had made this twice, first time as breakfast and second time for iftar. Both times these soft buttery rolls vanished within minutes. One thing I enjoy about trying new recipes is I enjoy watching my hubster and kids enjoy my food while eating them and the way it gets vanished. By the time the food is finished both my sons would have shown 3 to 4 thumbs up in between saying " Mamma I loved this, you should make them again". and Mr. Hubster is not behind in expressing his love for the food too by saying "wow mamma (sometimes he do call me mamma)super, mmmm, wow", hehe thats his way of enjoying the food. Its like a noisy eating all over. So by seeing them enjoying the food itself fills up my stomach. Having Honeycomb Bread was one such moment.

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INGREDIENTS:

Milk - 1/4 cup

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Yeast - 1 tbsp

All Purpose Flour - 2 cups

Butter - 2 tbsp

Egg - 1

Yogurt - 2 Tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Warm Water - Optional

Cream Cheese ( u call also use cheese cubes)

Milk - to brush

Black seeds

Sesame Seeds

For the Syrup:

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Water - 1/2 cup

Rose Syrup - 1 tsp

Honey - 1 Tbsp

DIRECTIONS:

1.Prepare the sugar syrup by mixing sugar, water, rose syrup and honey.Once it starts boiling allow to simmer for 5 to 10 min and switch off the flame. Allow to cool completely and keep aside.

2. Add sugar and yeast into milk. Let the mixture rest for 10 min.

3. Add in the yeast mixture, butter, egg, yogurt and salt into the all purpose flour.

4. Knead well untill a soft dough is obtained. Add warm water only if required.

5. Allow the dough to rise for an hour.

6. After an hour the dough will double in size. Punch the dough well and divide it into equal sized balls.

7. Take each ball, flaten it using hands and place some cheese(if using cheese cube use 1/3rd of cheese cube) in it. Fold over the ends enclosing the cheese within to make a ball.

8. Place the balls in a greased baking dish.

9. Brush with milk and sprinkle with sesame seeds and black seeds.

10. Bake in a preheated oven of 180 C for 25 min until the top turns golden brown. Pour the cooled syrup on top of the hot buns. Allow to soak completely before serving the hot honeycomb bread.

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