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Nanterre brioche

This is the classic, but delicious, brioche recipe that you can find in any good baker's.

Her unique shape is made from small balls of dough put in a mould

250K 55 4.1

Last modified on: September 10^th 2018

Keywords for this recipe:Viennoiserie Pastries Pastry Brioche Long

For 1 brioche, you will need:

1 400 g Brioche dough
2 30 g beaten egg
Total weight: 430 grams

Change these quantities to make: 1 brioche 2 brioches 3 brioches

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Time required for this recipe:

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16 min.	2 hours 10 min.	2 hours 26 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

The day before, prepare the brioche dough.

Next day, cut dough into 40 g pieces. Make balls with these dough pieces.

You need about 10 balls to make your brioche, according to the size of your mould or tin.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

Put balls in your mould or tin.

Stage 3 - 1 hour 30 min.

Glaze top of brioche.

Leave in a warm place to rise for 1.5 hour.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

After this time, brioche should have double volume or about.

Preheat oven to 180°C or 356°F.

Glaze top of brioche a second time.

Stage 5 - 40 min.

Bake for about 40 minutes, watch for colouration because brioche should not be over cooked otherwise she dries.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Unmould as soon as it is out the oven, and let cool on a wire rack.

Remarks

You can sprinkle the brioche before cooking with some caster sugar, it will be slightly crisp on the top.

Keeping

Several days in a towel bag.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
174 Kcal or 729 Kj	37 gr	164 gr	81 gr
9 %	14 %	15 %	12 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
40 Kcal or 167 Kj	8 gr	38 gr	19 gr
2 %	3 %	4 %	3 %

Per brioche
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
174 Kcal or 729 Kj	37 gr	164 gr	81 gr
9 %	14 %	15 %	12 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 brioche : 1.37 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Brioche dough: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Brioche Tatin, Flaky chocolate brioche, Chinois, Galette de Fougerolles, Snails in a brioche, ... All
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