Jewish Cookery | Kosher Recipes | Fig & Walnut Babka

Ingredients

• For the Bread Dough
• 2 sachets dried yeast
• 200ml lukewarm milk / plant-based milk such as almond or oat milk
• 85ml Filippo Berio Mild & Light Olive Oil
• 60g caster sugar
• 4 egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 600g strong white flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Filling
• 200g dried figs – stalks removed, soaked in boiling water for 10 minutes to
• soften, then drained but retain the water
• 20ml retained ‘fig’ water
• 150g walnuts – roasted
• Pinch salt
• 2 teaspoons dried cinnamon
• Glaze: 2 egg yolks
• Topping: 2-3 tablespoons Filippo Berio Mild & Light Olive Oil