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Beginner Sourdough Bread

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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!

Ingredients

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  • 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!
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