for 750 g

Dough

350 g	white flour
½ tsp	salt
¼ cube	yeast (approx. 10 g), crumbled
2 ¼ dl	buttermilk
3 tbsp	tahini (sesame paste)
3 tbsp	honey

Filling

100 g	chocolate, cut into pieces
60 g	tahini (sesame paste)
3 tbsp	honey

To shape

1	egg, beaten
2 tbsp	sesame seeds

How it's done

Dough

Mix the flour, salt and yeast in a bowl. Add the buttermilk, tahini and honey, mix and knead to form a soft, smooth dough. Cover the dough and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1½ hrs. until doubled in size.

Filling

Place the chocolate, tahini and honey in a thin-sided bowl, suspend the bowl over the gently simmering bain-marie, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate and stir until smooth.

To shape

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle (approx. 40 x 25 cm), cover with the chocolate mixture, roll up from the long edge. Cut the roll in half lengthwise, braid the strands with the cut sides facing up, place in the prepared loaf tin. Glaze with egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds.

To bake

Approx. 40 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, remove from the tin and leave to cool completely on a rack.

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