Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sourdough bread. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Here is a great recipe for authentic German Sourdough Bread. This bread tastes almost exactly like the bread we buy back home in Bavaria, Germany. For this sourdough bread recipe I used a homemade no-yeast sourdough starter and followed Chef John's Sourdough Bread recipe.
Sourdough Bread is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Sourdough Bread is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sourdough bread using 6 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sourdough Bread:
- Make ready 375 g bread flour
- Make ready 125 g whole wheat flour
- Take 400 g g water
- Prepare 100 g starter
- Take 10 g salt
- Prepare vegetable oil
Make two fairly deep diagonal slashes in each; a serrated bread knife, wielded firmly, works well here. Remove it from the oven, and cool on a rack. Sourdough bread is made entirely using wild yeast — with a strong, active sourdough culture of wild yeast, you won't need any commercial yeast at all. Wild yeast need a little more coaxing and works a little more slowly than commercial yeast, so sourdough breads are normally mixed, shaped, and baked over the course of a day, or even.
Instructions to make Sourdough Bread:
- To check if starter is ready to be used, add a small piece of starter to a bowl of water. If it floats, the starter is active. This test is not always accurate.
- Mix flours together with 375 ml of water, let rest 30 minutes - 2 hours for autolyse.
- Add starter to dough and pinch into dough with hands.
- Add 10g of salt and the remaining 25 ml of water, the dough should be a little easier to mix and very watery.
- With force, slap dough onto un-floured surface and fold together 5 minutes until some strength develops and the dough can hold its form.
- Lightly oil bowl or proofing box and add dough.
- Proof dough in proofing oven set to 85 F or at room temperature.
- With oiled hands, pick up dough at middle and fold onto itself, then rotate dough 90 degrees and fold again. Repeat every 30 minutes for 3-4 hours, total of 6-8 times.
- Prepare a generously floured towel placed in shaping basket or bowl to hold the dough overnight.
- Place dough on an un-floured surface and carefully form dough into a round shape. Lightly flour and let relax 10 minutes covered with a towel.
- Rollover onto floured surface with un-floured bottom facing up, pull sides out and fold together like an envelope.
- Stitch bottom together to hold and let rest seam-side down on counter to seal. Move into basket, seam-side up, and cover with flour, refrigerate overnight covered in towel.
- Flour parchment paper, preheat dutch oven on middle rack of oven set to 500F.
- Gently roll out dough onto parchment paper and score top of dough ball with a razor blade.
- Transfer dough with parchment paper into hot Dutch oven. Bake for 15 minutes with the lid on and 30 minutes off, cook times vary.
- Knock bottom of bread to hear hollow sound if bread is fully cooked.
Do not store it in the refrigerator. Instead, keep it covered with a towel or in a zipped plastic bag someplace that is relatively cool. A bread box also works well. If you want to freeze the bread, be sure to let the bread cool completely before freezing!. I talked all about sourdough starters: how to make one, and how to maintain one.
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