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Opekance: Slovak poppy seed bread bites from rolls, no kneading or rising

Name: Opekance: Slovak poppy seed bread bites from rolls, no kneading or rising
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Slovak
Ingredients: 10 Stale bread rolls; 300 ml Milk; 3 tbsp Honey; 1 packet Vanilla sugar (20 g); 150 g Ground poppy seeds; 50 g Powdered sugar; 50 g Butter

Stale rolls are toasted, soaked in hot milk with honey, and coated in ground poppy seeds, sugar, and butter. Serves 6 in 30 minutes.

Slovak cuisine · Vegetarian · Christmas Eve dinner recipes · Quick recipes in 35 minutes · Translated from Slovak · October 30, 2026

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Recipe at a glance

Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Temperature: 180 °C (350 °F)
Servings: 6 servings
Difficulty: Easy

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Opekance, Slovak poppy seed bread bites, are a Christmas Eve dish; this quick version uses bread rolls with no kneading or rising. Cut stale rolls into pieces, toast them in the oven until golden, pour hot milk with honey over them, and coat them in ground poppy seeds, sugar, and butter. Toasting the rolls keeps them from turning to mush. Unlike bobáľky, the yeast-dough version of these bread bites, these are ready in 30 minutes. They are also a good way to use up leftover bread rolls.

Ingredients

6 servings

Units

Stale bread rolls 10
Milk 300 ml
Honey 3 tbsp
Vanilla sugar (20 g) 1 packet
Ground poppy seeds 150 g
Powdered sugar 50 g
Butter 50 g

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Instructions

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Cut the rolls
5 min
Preheat the oven to 180 °C (350 °F). Cut the rolls into pieces about 2 cm in size and spread them on a baking sheet in a single layer.
Toast the bread
12 min
Bake at 180 °C (350 °F) for 10–12 minutes, until golden and crisp. Toss halfway through baking.
Heat the milk and honey
5 min
Heat the milk with the honey and vanilla sugar until just below boiling, stirring until the honey dissolves. Melt the butter and mix the poppy seeds with the powdered sugar.
Soak and coat
8 min
Place the toasted bread pieces in a large bowl. Gradually pour the hot milk over them, tossing gently until absorbed. Add the melted butter and poppy seed mixture and toss to coat. Serve warm or lukewarm.

Tip: Add the milk gradually and let the bowl sit for a few minutes. The pieces should soften but hold their shape, so add more milk a spoonful at a time only as needed.

Nutrition facts

Approximate values per serving, calculated from the ingredients

Energy: 489 kcal
Protein: 13 g
Carbohydrates: 65 g
of which sugars: 25 g
Fat: 21 g
of which saturates: 6.4 g
Fiber: 6.4 g
Salt: 1.0 g

Calculated from the raw ingredients, without frying oil. Where an amount is “to taste”, typical amounts are used. Food composition: USDA FoodData Central and product labels.

This recipe was translated from the Slovak original: Opekance s makom z rožkov: bez miesenia a kysnutia, cesto nahradia staršie rožky