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Ciabatta Bread - Portugese

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Ingredients

  • Biga Starter:
  • 1/2 cup bread flour
  • Pinch of yeast
  • 1/4 cup water at room temperature
  • Dough:
  • 1 cup bread flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon yeast
  • 2/3 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 cup water at room temperature

Details

Adapted from simplercipes.me

Preparation

Step 1

Biga:
Mix all the ingredients for the biga in medium bowl.

Cover with plastic and leave at room temperature up to 24 hours or overnight

Dough:
Place all the ingredients of the dough in the bread machine and the biga.

Turn on the bread machine to the kneading setting and let it mix/knead by occasionally scrapping the side of the mixing bucket.

The dough will be moist, but after kneading for a while the gluten will form and the dough will not stick so much at the walls of the bucket.

If the dough does not pull away from the wall of the mixing bucket add ½ tablespoon of bread flour.

Once the cycle ends, place the stretchy dough in a very well oiled bowl.

Make sure that the bowl is big enough because the dough will triple in size.

Cover with plastic wrap or kitchen towel.

Let rise until triple.

Dust flour onto a surface and gently scrape the dough.

Dust more flour on top, form a rectangle by pushing the sides of the dough.

Flip the dough on a cookie sheet with a parchment paper lightly dusted with flour.

Top the dough with some more flour and cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise until double of its initial size.

An hour or so before baking, put the baking stone into the oven on the lowest rack and preheat to 475 degrees.

Place a pan or tray underneath it on the floor of the oven to preheat with the stone.

Slide the parchment paper to the stone and add ice cubes to the empty tray.

Close the oven door and let if bake for 5 minutes, then turn the temperature to 450 degrees and bake for another 20 minute, rotating the stone once in between the baking time.

Once done with the baking time, turn off the oven and at the end of cooking turn off the oven and leave the loaf for 5 minutes with the door slightly open.

Let the loaf cool on the rack and serve warm.

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