Sourdough Bread

 

Tools Needed:

• Large bowl
• Fork
• Bread lame / sharp knife / razor
• Dutch oven
• Oven safe gloves

Ingredients:

• 388g all bread flour
• 257ml tepid water
• 4g salt
• 98g sourdough starter
• Flour

Steps:

1. Pour water in bowl, add starter, salt and mix with a fork until combined. Add flour and mix until shaggy dough forms.
2. Cover bowl dough for 30 minutes, uncover then stretch and fold dough with wet hands (grab a corner of the dough and pull it up into the center) then cover bowl. Repeat this step until you complete 3 folds, after final step cover dough for 6 hours.
3. Lightly flour work surface, gently place dough on flour and stretch out. Gently fold both ends and form dough into a round shape.
4. Place dough into a floured banneton proofing basket, cover and refrigerate for 12 hours. 
5. Place dutch oven in oven, then pre-heat oven to 500° F.  Once temperature is set, remove dutch oven from oven. 
6. Place parchment paper on shallow part of dutch oven, release the dough from proofing basket. Score dough with bread lame, cover dutch oven and bake for 20 minutes.
7. Remove dutch oven lid, bake bread for another 10 minutes. Turn oven off, cool bread on a wire rack before slicing.
8. Enjoy!

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