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Pastry Poppy Seed Filling (Mohn Paste)
Poppy seed filling is a sweet paste made with milk, honey, and vanilla. Use your own homemade mohn paste in cookies and cakes for Purim!
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 18 min
- Yield
- 1 serving
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 cup poppy seeds
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup milk (or almond milk)
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- 1
Blitz poppy seeds in food processor or coffee grinder to finer consistency.
- 2
Add ground poppy seeds, honey, milk, sugar, lemon juice and salt to medium saucepan.
- 3
Bring to a boil over medium high heat, reduce heat to low, and simmer until thickened, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat, and stir through the vanilla. Set aside to cool.
- 4
Use for filling of hamantashen, rugelach, babka or other pastries.