What is Tortell?

Tortell is a pastry that is popularly consumed as a Christmas meal in Catalan cuisine. The o -shaped pastry is traditionally included in desserts served on January 6, a date that indicates the end of twelve days of Christmas and some celebrate as a day of three wise men. It is a common practice to fulfill the tortell pastry with a figure of one of the three wise men and beans. A person who gets a figure in his part is the happy one who gets to wear a paper crown and a day. A person who gets beans on the other hand will be paid for pastry or tidy after eating. It can be decorated with fruit and nuts and stuffed with cream or chocolate. The ingredients used to make tortell are flour, sugar, milk, eggs, salt, yeast, lemon peel, honey, fruit pieces, nuts and butter. Milk and eggs are mixed and glowing and flour, sugar, salt and yeast are carefully mixed into the mixture. The butter is then mixed into the mixture until it is dissolved correctly. The resulting dough must be well moved to get smoothThe texture, and then is covered and postponed for about four hours until the size is filed.

The dough, as soon as it rises, is divided into two parts, each part created into a round shape. In the middle of each of them is produced a hole. Two sections of the dough are then left to sit for another two hours to increase further. After they have grown sufficiently, their peaks are dotted with fruit and nuts and are brushed with melted butter, yolk and sugar. In some cases, a creamy filling between two sections of the dough may be inserted before baking. At the moment you also need to add a figure and beans. It will help pack the figure and beans in the foil inserting into the dough.

The dough section is then inserted into the oven and baked at high temperature. Tortell is ready after about 10 to 20 minutes of baking. It happens when it turned into a nice golden brown.