Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe
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Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe
Make Perfect Sourdough Bread at home with this easy beginner-friendly recipe
Beginner Sourdough Bread
This is the very easy Beginner Sourdough bread recipe. It’s a very forgiving Sourdough Bread recipe you can always fall back to. It’s my go-to sourdough bread to bake because it gives you a lot of wiggle room!
- Prep Time: 4-6hrs for your Starter to come to peak
- Fermentation Times: 6hr bulk fermentation + 20-36hr cold proof (36F) OR 4-5hr room temp proof
- Cook Time: 40 min
- Total Time: 36hrs
- Yield: 1 Sourdough Bread 1x
- Category: Sourdough Bread Baking
- Method: Dutch Oven steam baking
- Cuisine: Homemade Bread
Ingredients
- 500g bread flour
- 305g water (61% hydration)
- 100g sourdough starter (20% starter)
- 10g salt (2% salt)
Instructions
The sourdough bread baking process can be boiled down into 7 Steps:
Step 1 – FEED STARTER – 4-12hrs
- Feed your sourdough starter and use when it’s at peak –basically when it can no longer rise and it starts to crater a little
Step 2 – MIXING – 5-15 min
- In a bowl, mix ingredients together thoroughly until there are no dry clumps
Step 3 – FOLDING – 30 sec. x 2-4 times over the course of 6hrs
- Fold your dough at least 2-4 times in 6 hours, can be spaced out however long you want
Step 4 – SHAPING – 1 min
- After 5hrs, your sourdough dough should’ve risen 1.5x its size and should hold its shape after folding.
- Shape your sourdough dough, place into your proofing basket, and cover your dough
Step 5 – PROOFING
- Option 1 – 20-26hrs – Cold proof your dough in your fridge at 36F (ideal, preferred)
- Option 2 – 4-5hrs – Proof your dough at room temp (70F)
Step 6 – SCORING – 1 min
- Preheat your Dutch Oven in your oven at 485-500F,
- take our your dough out from the fridge,
- flip it onto parchment paper and score it
Step 7 – BAKING – 20 min + 20 min
- Immediately bake in a Dutch Oven with the lid on for 20 min at 485-500F;
- then bake for another 20 min with the Dutch Oven lid off
- wait 1-2hrs before cutting into it
- enjoy! Post pics in the comments, please!
Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe Schedule
Need help With the timing? I made You A Schedule That’ll Help you see the Timeline:
Friday
Preparation
9pm – Feed your sourdough starter
Saturday
1st rise – Bulk Fermentation
9am – Mix ingredients
9:15am – 1st folding session
11:15am – 2nd folding session
1:15pm – 3rd Folding session
2:15pm – Shape dough
3pm – Put dough in fridge
2nd rise – Cold Proofing
3pm – Cold proof for 24hrs
Sunday
Baking Day
2:30pm – Preheat DO in oven
3pm – Score dough
3:01pm – Bake in DO, lid on
3:20pm – Bake in DO, lid off
3:40pm – Done
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Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe Video
Watch This Video of the Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe recipe To Get A Quick Summary Of The Process
