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Fig and chocolate bread
Pagnottella di fichi e cioccolato
➤ SERVES 12
➤ PREPARATION Overnight, then 30 minutes
➤ BAKING 30 minutes
This speciality of Porto Santo Stefano, on Monte Argentario in Tuscany, is halfway between a fruit cake and something dense and chocolatey, like brownies. Pagnottella is made as one large loaf or as buns, and is dusted in flour before being baked to set.
• 250g dried figs, roughly chopped
• 500ml white wine
• ¼ apple, peeled, cored and grated
• 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
• 100g vegan dark chocolate (70% cocoa), roughly chopped
• 50g each of sultanas, pine nuts, walnut kernels, whole almonds, whole hazelnuts (peeled)
• zest of 1 unwaxed orange
• 2 tbsp plum jam
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
• 100g plain flour or as needed,
