Çiçek Ekmek / Flower Bread

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50g milk
150g water
15g fresh yeast
410g flour
1 tbsp honey
5g salt
20g margarine or butter (room temperature)

1 egg yolk (beaten)
Nigella

• Warm milk and water for 30 seconds at 37°C on Speed 1
• Add fresh yeast. Mix for 5 seconds on Speed 3
• Sift in flour. Add honey, salt and margarine. Knead for 6 minutes
• Put it a bowl, cover with plastic film and let it rise at least 1 hour.
• Get a 130g piece of the dough. Divide the rest of the dough into 8 balls.
• Cover a 20cm diameter tin with wax paper
• Roll the balls by your hands smoothly
• Put the 130g ball in the center of the tin
• Place the remaining 8 balls around it in a way that they slightly touch one another forming a flower-like shape bread
• Let it rise for another 1 hour
• Brush it with beaten egg yolk and sprinkle with some nigella
• Bake it in the 220°C preheated oven for 30 minutes. (I cooked for 25 minutes at 220°C and for last 5 minutes at 200°C)

Notes: In original recipe it's used the whole egg (beaten) to brush over the bread, instead i used only egg yolk.
The link for the original recipe is here.