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Brioche dough

It's a soft and rich dough, with butter and eggs which give a smooth and incredibly tasty brioche.

This is the basic recipe for brioche dough, used for all other brioche-based recipes on the site.

537 K 4× 4.2/5 (76 reviews)

14 hours 30 min. difficulté

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3.80 €

3 kg 750 g

8 Ingredients

Last modified on: September 16^th 2020

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For 3 kg 750 g, you will need:

1 696.6 ml butter
2 975 ml egg
3 2 litres 340 ml plain white flour (French Type 45)
4 45 mls yeast
5 75 mls caster sugar
6 37.8 mls fine (or table) salt
7 300 mls fermented viennoiserie dough (optional)
8 150 mls caster sugar

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Times for this recipe

Preparation: 12 hours 60 min.

Resting: 1 hour 30 min.

All in all: 14 hours 30 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Cut 696.6 ml butter in small pieces, let stay at ambient temperature.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

In the bowl of a mixer, pour 975 ml egg puis 2 litres 340 ml plain white flour (French Type 45), 45 mls yeast, 75 mls caster sugar et 37.8 mls fine (or table) salt.

Stage 3 - 15 min.

Kneed at low speed for 3 minutes, then 8 minutes at medium speed.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Add 300 mls fermented viennoiserie dough and 150 mls caster sugar to the vat.

Note: This procedure (sugar and fermented dough are added later) helps the brioche to grow and puff up nicely, as the yeast is not saturated by a massive addition of sugar right from the start.

Stage 5 - 15 min.

Kneed at medium until dough stop to stick to the bowl (10-15 minutes usually).

Stage 6 - 1 min.

Add butter.

Stage 7 - 10 min.

Kneed at medium speed until butter is fully incorporated.

Stage 8 - 1 hour

Cover dough with plastic film, and let stay 1 hour at ambient temperature.

Stage 9

After this time dough has inflated, starting fermentation, which is good.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Remove plastic film and stretch the dough by lifting it up and letting it suddenly drop. This will remove all the fermentation gas.

Stage 11 - 12 hours

Put back film on top, and put in the fridge for the night.

Stage 12 - 2 min.

The day after, dough has inflate a bit, get cold, and can now be manipulated.

Pour the dough on your working surface with some flour on it.

Stage 13 - 2 min.

Spread the dough using your hand.

Stage 14 - 5 min.

Cut stripes of dough, and cut those stripes in pieces of the chosen weight.

Stage 15

For example 40 grams pieces to make a Nanterre brioche...

Stage 16

... or 250 grams pieces for brioche pies.

Stage 17 - 30 min.

Roll dough pieces in balls, put on a baking sheet, cover with a plastic sheet, and put in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Then your brioche dough is ready to use in your recipe.

Remarks

It's more easy to succeed in making good brioche by using a special flour, strong in gluten, called "Farine de gruau". If you can't have this one, try to use a T45 flour.

Keeping: Brioche dough can be frozen.

Source: From Thomas Marie.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	310 RDI=120 %	1,520 RDI=140 %	710 RDI=110 %	13,760 RDI=690 %	57,610 RDI: 690 %
Per 100 g	9 RDI=3 %	40 RDI=4 %	20 RDI=3 %	400 RDI=20 %	1,670 RDI: 20 %

The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man

Possible allergens in this recipe: milk, egg, Gluten, leaven

How much will it cost?

For 3 kg 750 g : 11.40 €

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The 4 comments already posted on this recipe

Yes, exactly.
Posted by jh july 29^th 2020 at 18:51 n° 4
For this Brioche recipe, you mention that the sour dough is optional....so it means I can follow this recipe exactly and omit the sour dough and it's still good correct?
Thank you!
Monique
Posted by Monique july 29^th 2020 at 17:58 n° 3
Very good recipe giving excellent result, with a fluffy, light and delicious brioche!
I made a chinois with the dough and that truly turned out beautiful!

Just a word of warning though, the dough is hard to knead, and nearly killed my Moulinex robot, so had to switch to my hand mixer with the 2 dough "blades" that look like corkscrews and it takes the strain fine.

Thank you so much for this great recipe!!!

Franck
Posted by Franck august 2^nd 2009 at 19:06 n° 2
Very good recipe giving excellent result, with a fluffy, light and delicious brioche!
I made a chinois with the dough and that truly turned out beautiful!

Just a word of warning though, the dough is hard to knead, and nearly killed my Moulinex robot, so had to switch to my hand mixer with the 2 dough "blades" that look like corkscrews and it takes the strain fine.

Thank you so much for this great recipe!!!

Franck
Posted by Franck august 2^nd 2009 at 19:04 n° 1

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