Easter bread Tsoureki recipe | Gourmet Traveller

Few other recipes – bar the tsoureki – require you to place a whole hard-boiled egg, dyed red and with the shell intact, into a soft dough and bake it. None, in fact. What could be the point?

Blame tradition. Greeks are sticklers for it, especially in the diasporas, where we tend to hang on to customs more vigorously than they do in the motherland. Red eggs (the red symbolising Christ’s blood) spell Easter to every Greek person. So adorning a tsoureki (or Greek brioche) with…