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Sourdough bread

Preparation time: 5 days to prepare a sourdough starter, 14 hours for the bread Share

Although this bread takes several days to make because you have to prepare a sourdough starter first, the entire process is very interesting and educational, so get right on it and add sourdough to your baking skills. Sourdough is living yeast that our grandmothers used to bake with as well – a mixture of flour and water that helps bread to rise due to the microorganisms, lactic acid bacteria and wild yeasts it contains. Sourdough bread is famous for its light and fluffy middle and crispy crust. Above all, this dough is easier to digest because it doesn’t just lie there in your stomach. That’s what makes sourdough bread ideal for light snacks and lunches, with your favourite Argeta playing the starring role.

Sourdough starter:

120 g white wheat flour
120 g water

Levain:

20 g sourdough starter
50 g white wheat flour
40 g water

Bread dough:

500 g white wheat flour
320 ml water
1 tsp salt

beli kruh z drožmi

Sourdough starter:

1. Day 1: Mix 20 g of flour and 20 g of water in a jar. Cover the jar with a lid, but not tightly – just place the lid on top of the jar.

2. Days 2 through 6: Add 20 g of flour and 20 g of water to the mixture in the jar, and mix it once a day.

3. On day 3, sourdough activity should be visible in the form of bubbles, with a pleasant sour aroma.

4. On day 5, the sourdough is ready to be used. Now you can take 20 g of the starter to make the bread, and put the rest of it back in the fridge.

5. Maintain your starter by feeding it every once in a while with a flour and water mixture.

droži

Levain:

1. In a high jar, mix the sourdough starter, flour and water.

2. Leave the mixture on the kitchen counter until it doubles in volume.

3. The easiest way to monitor its rising is to mark the initial level of the starter with a rubber band around the jar.

drožni nastavek

Dough and rest:

1. Mix flour, salt and water in a bowl and leave it covered for 15 minutes.

2. Mix in the levain.

3. Knead the dough well, for about 10 minutes. It’s best for a kitchen robot to do the job.

gnetenje testa

4. Cover the bowl and leave it to prove in a warm spot in the kitchen, allowing the dough to double in volume.

5. After proving, the dough needs to be stretched and folded from all corners to strengthen the gluten. First stretch the dough outwards with your fingers, then fold it over the upper part of the dough.

6. Put the dough back into the bowl, cover it and wait for it to double in volume again.

prepogibi testa

7. Turn the dough over onto a flour-dusted surface.

8. Stretch the edge of the dough out from the left and right, folding it over the top of the dough, then gently pull the dough from the lower side and roll it up.

9. Place the rolled dough, with the seam side up, into a thoroughly flour-dusted proving basket.

10. Work your way along the entire seam, pinching and slightly turning the top of the dough with two fingers.

oblikovanje testa

11. Cover the basket with a clear shower cap and place it in the fridge.

12. Let the dough rest in the cold overnight.

hlajenje testa

Shaping and baking:

1. Place a large lid-covered cast iron pot into the oven and heat it for at least 45 minutes at 240ºC.

2. Tip the cold dough straight from the fridge onto parchment paper.

3. Sprinkle a bit of flour over the top and gently brush it around.

4. Make a 2 cm deep cut along the entire length of the dough using a razor or very sharp knife at an angle.

5. The cut should be a few centimeters away from the top of the dough.

6. If you want, you can cut a pattern of your choice into the surface of the dough.

7. Carefully uncover the heated pot and gently place the parchment paper with the dough inside, holding the paper at two ends.

8. Put the lid back on and return the pot to the oven.

9. Bake the bread for 15 minutes at 240ºC in the covered pot, then remove the lid and lower the temperature to 200ºC. Bake for a further 25 minutes.

oblikovanje kruha

10. After baking, immediately transfer the bread onto a cooling rack and wait for it to cool.

beli kruh z drožmi z Argeto

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