CIABATTA bread, here’s an easy & basic bread, only needs a few ingredients plus 17 hours of your time 😁
Start it tonight at 5pm, you’ll have bread for lunch the following day! Recipe below. Tune in on Thursday 3.19 @ 4pm for a LinkedIn Live demonstration on breakfast pastries: almond brown butter cake with berries or chocolate chips, along with cheesy biscuits.
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CIABATTA
all purpose flour 440g/ 4 cups
Salt 9g/ 1.5 tsp
Instant yeast 1g / 0.3 tsp
Water (55-65 F) 350g / 1.4 cups
Mix all ingredients one minute by hand or spatula, place into covered container overnight on kitchen counter 14-16 hours. Will double in size. After first rise, place on well floured surface. Four folds: folding dough in half, then again cross in half. Repeat, place seam side down. Be gentle, don’t degas dough. Here is a makeshift proofer, placing steaming pot of water in empty oven along with dough. Or leave outside ~1 hour.
Shape into 2 long loaves, dust with flour, & quickly stretch it out. Olive oil drizzle with sea salt. Bakeoff at 475F, ~25 minutes till golden. Cool on rack. Enjoy! Inspired by Jim Lahey!
PS: Video recipe adjusted for 3 loaves! Long version of video on LI along with audio voiceover, that’s a new one for me 😁!
