Tahini Bread

As the baking time is approaching I wanted to post a related recipe that is very easy to do.  Kids love these.   This recipe is a version of the usual tahini bread that I know of.  It's a lot less sweet and I added a little bit Swiss twist by adding chestnuts to the recipe.  I love tahini and this is a great use of it if you have a jar of tahini and  that you don't know what to do with it.  You can either use all of the dough to make one big bread, or smaller ones like I did. 

Tahini Bread

For the dough:

400 g half white/half whole wheat flour

100 g sugar

1/2 pack of yeast

50 g butter

150 ml milk

For the filling

125 g chestnut (mashed)

1 tablespoon of crushed almonds

3 tablespoons of yogurt

1 tablespoon of cream

4 tablespoons of Tahini

3 tablespoons of brown sugar

To glaze

3-4 tablespoons of fruit gel or marmelade

To sprinkle 

1-2 tablespoons of sugar

I made the dough by mixing all the ingredients for the dough in a bread machine for 1.5 hours.  Alternatively, the ingredients can be mixed in a bowl and kneed to a dough. Then the dough should wait at room temperature for two hours.  

To prepare the filling, put all filling ingredients in a food processor and mix for about a minute. 

When the dough is ready, roll it out with a rolling pin and spread the filling over it by leaving some space on the ends. Roll the dough carefully to a spiral.  Slice the roll into about 12-15 pieces without pressing too much.  Place the slices on a baking tray over a baking paper.  

Bake them in a preheated oven at 200° C(400° F) for about 25 minutes.  When done, take them out and put them over a grill.  Warm up the gel in a small pen and brush it over the tahini breads.  If you prefer you can also sprinkle some sugar over them as well.
Have a cup of tea and enjoy them while warm and fresh.