Learn how to bake the perfect sourdough bread at home with no kneading required! This easy recipe shows you step-by-step how to make fluffy, healthy, and flavorful sourdough bread topped with sesame and nigella seeds. Perfect for beginners and experienced bakers alike!
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🥖✨ Stop buying bread — make your own sourdough at home! In this video, I’ll guide you step by step through baking the perfect sourdough bread. With no kneading needed, you’ll get fluffy, airy, and flavorful bread that everyone will love. Topped with sesame and nigella seeds, this loaf is as beautiful as it is delicious.
Ingredients:
Bread flour: 200 g
Whole wheat flour: 50 g
Cold water with ice: 215 g
Active natural starter (levain): 75 g
Salt: 6 g
Topping: sesame seeds & nigella seeds
Instructions (simplified):
1. Mix flours, water, and starter until no dry flour remains. Rest 30–60 min.
2. Add salt, mix, and lightly slap the dough until absorbed. Transfer to an oiled bowl.
3. Perform 3–4 folds (stretch & fold from all sides) with 30 min rest between each.
4. Once dough doubles, shape it into a ball, rest briefly, then coat in sesame & nigella seeds.
5. Place in a banneton. Rest 30–90 min at room temp, then refrigerate 18–24 hrs.
6. Bake in preheated Dutch oven:
20 min covered at 250°C
15 min uncovered at 230°C
7. Let cool completely before slicing. Enjoy! 😋
This recipe is beginner-friendly and creates bakery-quality sourdough at home. Perfect for sandwiches, toast, or just enjoying with butter.
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Timestamps ⏲️:
00:00 Introduction – Easy No-Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe
00:23 Starting the dough (autolyse)
00:50 Adding active starter
01:53 Resting the dough
02:00 Adding salt
03:00 Dough mixing complete
03:24 Resting again
03:33 Beginning the folds
04:56 Final fold
05:23 Shaping dough balls & resting
06:10 Shaping the loaf
07:16 Placing dough in banneton
07:33 Final proof
08:00 Transfer onto parchment & into Dutch oven
08:37 First bake (covered)
08:46 Removing lid for second bake
08:53 End of bake
09:06 Cooling the bread
09:19 Crispy crust
09:32 Slicing the bread
09:44 Beautiful crumb texture
09:56 Soft and fluffy inside
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