Tahini & Chocolate Brioche

Name: Tahini & Chocolate Brioche
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Armenian
Ingredients: 7 g/¼ oz dried active yeast; 250 g/9 oz/2 cups plain/all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting; a pinch of fine sea salt; 4 tbsp milk; 1 tsp sunflower oil; 125 g/4½ oz/½ cup butter at room temperature, cut into cubes; 40 g/1½ oz/¼ cup chocolate chips; 1 tbsp plus 2 tsp tahini; 3 tbsp caster/superfine sugar, plus an extra pinch; 2 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 35

Appears in

The Jewelled Kitchen

By Bethany Kehdy

Published 2013

About

Armenian communities across the Middle East have contributed much to the cuisine across the region, and this brioche is inspired by their tahinov hatz, a type of sweet bread roll spread with sugar and cinnamon.

Ingredients

4 tbsp milk
7 g/¼ oz dried active yeast

Asia
Armenia
Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Warm the milk in a small saucepan until tepid. Sprinkle in the yeast and stir well.
Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl, add the sugar, yeasty milk mixture and both eggs and mix thoroughly by hand. Knead in the butter, one piece at a time. The result should be a soft and elastic dough with a sticky consistency.
Dust the work surface with flour.