Fondue Babka

Serves: 6

main swiss vegetarian cheese

Ingredients

Dough

  • 250 g half-white flour
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 0.25 cube yeast (approx. 10 g)
  • 1.5 dl milk
  • 25 g butter, soft

Filling

  • 3 garlic cloves
  • 3 sprig rosemary
  • 300 g fondue cheese mix
  • 1 tsp mild paprika

Instructions

Dough

  1. Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl.
  2. Crumble the yeast, add the milk and butter, mix, knead to form a soft, smooth dough.
  3. Cover the dough and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1.5 hrs. until doubled in size.

Filling

  1. Peel and finely chop the garlic.
  2. Finely chop the rosemary, place both in a bowl with the cheese and paprika, mix.

Assembly

  1. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle (approx. 30 x 25 cm), spread the filling on top, leaving a border of approx. 2 cm all the way around, press down gently.
  2. Roll up the dough tightly, starting from one of the long edges. Cut the roll in half lengthwise.
  3. Braid the strands with the cut sides facing up, place in the prepared loaf tin.
  4. Approx. 35 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.