Pesto babka

Name: Pesto babka
Prep time: 40 min
Total time: 130 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 450 g white flour; 10 g sugar; ½ cube yeast; 100 g sunflower seeds; 50 g margarine; 2 ½ dl soya drink; 120 g basil; 100 g leaf spinach; 1 garlic cloves; 4 tbsp nutritional yeast; 5 tbsp olive oil; 2 ½ tsp salt; 1 tbsp lemon juice

Vegan bake Baking piquant

Total: 2 hr 10 min. | Active: 40 min.

vegan, lactose-free

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Babka usually has a sweet filling, however this savoury babka with homemade pesto filling is equally impressive. Babka is very easy to make. Unlike classic braided bread, however, the yeast dough rolls are not braided in the traditional way but rather cut open lengthwise and twisted into a loaf. This is what creates the beautiful pattern.

Recipe by:
Lara - Vanillacrunnch

Ingredients

for 1 bread

Yeast dough
450 g	white flour
1 tsp	salt
10 g	sugar
½ cube	yeast (approx. 20 g, crumbled
50 g	margarine, melted, left to cool
2 ½ dl	soya drink

Pesto filling
120 g	basil, roughly chopped
100 g	leaf spinach, roughly chopped
100 g	sunflower seeds
1	garlic clove
1 tbsp	lemon juice
1 ½ tsp	salt
4 tbsp	nutritional yeast
5 tbsp	olive oil

How it's done

Yeast dough

Mix the flour, salt, sugar and yeast in a bowl. Add the margarine and soya milk, mix, 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.

Pesto filling

In a blender, puree the basil with all the other ingredients until smooth.

To shape

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle (approx. 40 x 25 cm), cover with the pesto filling, 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.

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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