Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, ciabatta bread. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Ciabatta Bread is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Ciabatta Bread is something that I have loved my whole life.
This is probably the easiest ciabatta bread recipe you'll come across. Because of this, you'll need a stand mixer to make the dough. Otherwise, it will be near impossible to mix the dough.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook ciabatta bread using 10 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Ciabatta Bread:
- Make ready For The Sponge
- Take (1) Cup flour
- Get (1/8) Tsp yeast
- Take (1/2) Cup water
- Make ready For The Dough
- Get (2) Cups flour
- Make ready (1 1/2) Tsp salt
- Take (1/2) Tsp yeast
- Get (3/4) Cup water room temperature
- Get (1/4) Cup milk room temperature
We agreed that this is the best bread we've EVER had! The first loaf was gobbled before the second one came out of the oven! :) Can't wait to make it again!! Note: The dough will be VERY sticky - do not add more flour. This authentic ciabatta bread recipe will walk you step-by-step through the process of making perfect ciabatta at home.
Instructions to make Ciabatta Bread:
- Make the Sponge. Combine sponge ingredients in a medium bowl. Mix well. Cover with plastic wrap. Let sit for 8-12 hours.
- Make the Dough. Combine the Sponge and the dough ingredients in a mixer bowl. Mix with paddle attachment for 2 minutes on low. Continue mixing on medium for another 4 minutes.
- Change to Dough hook and knead for about 10 minutes.
- Transfer dough to a large bowl and and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise until doubled, about 45 minutes.
- Using a greased spatula, fold dough over into it self. By lifting and folding toward the center. Turn the bowl 90 degrees and fold again. Repeat this step 6 more times.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let rise 30 minutes.
- Repeat the folding steps again. Cover and let rise again 30 minutes.
- Place baking stone on middle rack in oven. Pre heat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Tare off 2 pieces of wax paper about 12 inches x 12 inches. Flour lightly. Turn dough on to a floured surface. Lightly dust the top with flour. Devide dough in half. With floured hands shape each loaf into about a 11x6 rectangle. Place each loaf on the wax paper. Lightly flour the tops. Gently cover them with plastic wrap. Let rise 30 minutes.
- Slide the wax paper with the loaves onto a pizza peel. Remove plastic wrap. Spray the loaves with water. Slide the loaves still on wax paper onto baking stone. In the first 5 minutes of baking spray the loaves 2 more times.
- Bake for 25 to 28 minutes. Until brown.
- Transfer loaves to a wire cooling rack. Discarding the wax paper. Let cool 1 hour. Enjoy!
Ciabatta bread is a classic Italian style bread that translates to mean "slipper bread" due to the shape of the loaves. Ciabatta is a soft and chewy bread made with a biga, which gives great flavor. Ciabatta bread is an Italian bread which is also popular in other parts of the world, thanks to its versatility and distinct flavor. Around Italy, numerous regions lay claim to the invention of the bread, and slightly different versions of it are baked in different areas. The following sourdough ciabatta bread recipe results in four large ciabatta.
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