Goat Cheese & Herb Babka
Today's bake: Goat Cheese & Herb Babka
Source: Clotilde Dusoulier - Chocolate & Zucchini #cnzrecipes
Note: Orig TDW 0.650kg & Pan 30x10x10cm; New TDW 0.900kg & Pan 40x10x10cm
Discussion: I was looking for something to bake for a gathering of friends and thought this would be a nice finger food. I also wanted to experiment with using a food processor to mix/knead the dough as detailed in 'The Italian Baker by Carol Field'.
I am happy to report that I watched as this bread vanished before my eyes within minutes and that the food processor did a fine job with this volume of dough.
The bread had a marvelous flavor mix due to the fresh basil, dried rosemary, and thyme mixed with the goat cheese and then brushed with EVOO at baking end.
Make again? - Yes, definitely a crowd pleaser.
Changes/Recommendations: Increase the TDW by ~20% to better fit my pan size.
Ratings
Tony
Comments
Beautifully done! Bet it tastes great.
Dave
It was.
That’s awesome Tony, I love the idea of a savory babka, goat cheese and herb sounds delicious.
What make is your food processor. I’ve been meaning to try using mine for dough other than pastry dough, but since I got the Ankarsrum Assistent I forgot all about it. I have a KitchenAid but I recall Mariana saying that the Cuisinart is better for dough.
Benny
Benny - It's an ancient Kitchen Aid KFP670 - 11 CUP Food Processor and I used the regular Multipurpose steel blade. Carol Field in her book suggests that for larger dough batches to just divide them and process them separately.
For reference, the manual has a white bread recipe that specifies 3 cups bread flour or 3 x 120 gr per King Arthur web site. The above babka recipe contains 363g of flour.
Tony
At some point I’m going to have to try making a dough with my KA food processor. Mine isn’t ancient but it isn’t new either, maybe 15 years old. It would be able to handle single loaves of dough then based on what you’re saying.
Benny
Beautiful work Tony and love the combination of tastes and flavours.
Give it a try, it's pretty easy and comes together in a short time.
Tony