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GTAste – All overseas Meetings, Incentives Conferences and other Events offer opportunities for different experiences and sensations. GTAste is intended to explore some of those experiences through the flavours, festivals, fashion and more of our destinations.

Under GTAste you can explore the flavours  and scents of delightful food from our destinations (recipes you can try at home) and read of  destination wines. Some of our recipes will be from the DMCs home “kitchen”. While Switzerland, Morocco, The Balearics and Malta produce some great wines they are either not available in the UK or are hard to find – shame you will have to visit the destination to try their wine!

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Great Tastes

Try out some great recipies from our countries.

Makowiec – A Traditional Polish Dessert Recipe

Makowiec (Poppy Seed Roll) is a traditional Polish dessert, especially popular during the Christmas season.

Makes 2 rolls

Recipe adapted from Moje Wypieki

Poppy seed filling

  • 330g poppy seeds
  • 112g light brown sugar
  • 65g raisins or sultanas
  • 33g walnuts, chopped
  • 2 Tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp almond extract
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 Tbsp butter, softened
  • 1/3 cup candied orange zest
  • 4 egg whites

Dough

  • 30g fresh yeast or 14g instant yeast
  • 320g plain flour + extra for sprinkling
  • 4 Tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1 Tbsp strong alcohol like vodka or rum
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla paste
  • 4 egg yolks
  • 120ml milk, lukewarm
  • 100g butter, melted and cooled down

Poppy seed filling

Place poppy seeds in a medium bowl and pour boiling water over (you just want it to be covered). Leave it to cool.

Remove the excess of water and grind twice

Add sugar, raisins, walnuts, honey, almond extract, cinnamon, butter, candied orange zest and stir until well combined.

In a separate bowl whip egg whites until stiff, add it into poppy seed mixture and gently fold it in.

Dough

If you are using fresh yeast – mix yeast with 1 tablespoon of sugar (it will turn into liquid). Add 2 tablespoons of flour and all milk, stir and leave aside for 20-30 minutes until you see bubbles on the surface. Follow the steps below, adding the yeast mixture in place of the milk.

If you are using dry yeast – in a big bowl mix together yeast, flour and sugar.

Add alcohol, vanilla paste, egg yolks and milk and knead until well combined (around 5-10 minutes).

Pour slowly butter and knead until incorporated.

Cover the dough with a tea towel and leave it in a warm place to rise,  an hour or longer until it doubles in size.

Assembling

Divide the dough in two.

Roll each part of the dough on a floured surface. You want to have rectangular dough around 3mm thick.

Spread the filling on each of the rectangles, leaving around 2-cm edge.

Starting at the long edge, roll the dough like a jelly roll.

Turn ends under so filling will not leak out.

Place the rolls on a parchment-lined pan.

Bake in a preheated oven to 190ºC/170ºC fan for 30-40 minutes. (The dough get golden very quickly, so cover it with a parchment paper so it wouldn’t burn).

Leave it to cool.

You may decorate it with icing and candied orange zest.

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