Recipe of Neapolitan Rustic Babà ( also called Rustic Brioche)

Babà maybe is the most famous Neapolitan cake, but few people know that it exist another rustic/salty version (naturally without rhum) in shape of donut. 

Someone call it Rustic Brioche... but I prefer call it Rustic Babà because thoug the preparation is different from the preparation of the brioche. 

He looks like a salty soft donut, make with cold meats and cheeses, but it can be served in a mono portion using the "pirottini". 

The Rustic babà is made with a great various of sweet cheeses, seeds spicy and cheese made of spun paste and meats as ham, bacon, neapolitan salami, but a great Neapolitan observance is of to use the rest of the meats and cheeses that we find in our fridge.
The Rustic Babà need of a times of  leavening of 2 hours, than you must to make it in time, but I assure you that it is worth it. 

 

Ingredients (for 8 people) 
Mixture 

- 330 of manitoba flour

- 300 of flour 00

- 360 ml of milk

- 25 gr of brewer's yeast (15 gr if it is dry)

- 100 gr of soft butter 

- 4 eggs 

- 1 yolk eggs 

- 40 gr of sugar

- 1/2 teaspoon of salt 

- a touch of pepper 

 

- 80 gr of Parmesan DOP (or GRANA PADANO DOP)      

- 250 gr of Emmenthal cheese

- 150 gr of scamorza (or galbanino or another cheese made of spun paste)

- 150 gr of seeds spicy cheese

- 200 gr of ham

- 200 gr of Neapolitan salami

 

 

Cut the meats and the cheeses in short parts an put them away. 

Put in the kitchen robot or in a large bowl the 2 types of flours. Dissolve in a glass the brewer's yest with a short of milk and add the flours. Put the other warm milk and start to work all with the whip hook. Add one for one the eggs and the yolk eggs. Add the soft butter in short parts. 

Now add the salt, the pepper and the sugar and also the Parmesan.

Let it work with the hook for 5 minutes until to obtain a soft and straight mixture. Add now the sliced meats and cheeses and let it go for few minutes, until to incorporate them.

 

Now, make the mixture in a shape o a Babà greased and floured and let it rise in the oven with the light on. 

When the mixture will be doubled, turn on the oven to 180/190° and let it cook for about 40/45 minutes until it has a good color. 

 

Put off of the oven and let it cold.