Serbian bread "Elephant ear"

Original, beautiful and very simple Serbian bread, it is also called elephant's ear.

Ingredients

• 25 g fresh yeast (10 g dry)
• 250 ml. milk
• 1 tsp Sahara
• 0.5 tsp salt
• 2-2.5 st. flour (glass 250 ml)
• 70 g butter
• 1 egg
• sesame or poppy

Directions

1. To prepare the dough, add sugar, yeast and 1 tbsp to warm milk. flour. Stir and put in a warm place for 15-20 minutes.
2. In the risen dough gradually! add flour and knead the dough. You should get a soft elastic dough that does not stick to your hands.
3. Do not rush to add all the flour at once, as you may need a little more or less than indicated in the ingredients.
4. Roll out the dough into a layer and cut out 12-15 circles with a diameter of 10-11 cm.
5. Melt butter. Grease a baking dish with melted butter.
6. Dip each circle of dough on all sides in oil.
7. Then put all the cakes in a mold with an overlap in a circle. The diameter of my mold is 26 cm.
8. It is better to choose a whole baking dish, and not a detachable one, since butter can flow out of a detachable one.
9. Cover the form with cakes with cling film and put in a warm place for 20 minutes.
10. Then brush the bread with beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds or poppy seeds.
11. Bake bread in a preheated oven for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.