Four ingredients and little effort let’s bake an Easy No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe for the week perfect for sandwiches.
Easy No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe Video
HOW TO MAKE AN EASY SOURDOUGH STARTER
In a room temperature glass container mix one cup of all-purpose organic unbleached flour (any flour of choice will work but, organic and unbeach it best) with one cup of filtered water. Mix flour and water thoroughly, until it feels like a thick paste such as pancake batter.
Note if your climate has more humidity than others, you may need a bit less water.
Cover with a tea towel or cheese cloth and keep in a warm place around seventy degrees.
Twelve hour later remove a half cup and discard to save to make a discard recipe of feed livestock such as feeding the chicken or pigs.
Fed with additional 1/2 cup of all-purpose organic unbleached flour and 1/2 cup of filter water. Repeat this process for five days. On day six and seven fed every twenty-four hours. Your sourdough starter should have bubbles and the top will look foam-like.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF SOURDOUGH BREAD
Sourdough has many health benefits, filled with many gut-friendly probiotics and a way to grow yeast to leaven breads. Probiotics are live microbes that have benefits that develop naturally within the environment. Flour and water began to ferment which will occur when bacteria are captured from the environment and multiples within the dough. The air pockets with bubbly and begin to lift dough and that is how your sourdough bread will rise.
Sourdough helps to relegate metabolism, helps relieve allergies, cancer protection and balances the immune system along with reducing inflammation.
Sourdough has been around for centuries as far back as the Egyptians. This wild yeast is fermented naturally, leavened bake breads and desserts. Sourdough adds a tangy, earthy taste to all baked goods and filled with many health benefits.
Understand that you do not need fancy equipment with getting started with sourdough. I have created a list of sourdough items that I have bought and have been helpful through the years. In the beginning I use what I owned and eventually expanded. The most important thing when working with sourdough is to learn and practice with the live organism.
SOURDOUGH EQUIPMENT FOR NO KNEAD SOURDOUGH BREAD
Bench Scraper is great to dividing, shaping and lifting dough from counter to bowls.
Large Bowl to preparing, mixing and creating sourdough breads and bake goods.
Cooling Rack is nice to won to cool sourdough bread and bake goods.
Spatula for mixing sourdough and scraping dough out of the bowls.
Silicone Oven Mitts for removing sourdough focaccia bread out of the oven without burning your hands.
Lame is a treat to score any sourdough loaf before baking.
Banneton is a proofing basket for second rise of sourdough.
Baking Pan for backing focaccia, dinner rolls and other baked goods.
How to Score No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe
Often when baking bread in the oven especially sourdough it can create an oven spring. An oven spring is when the bread will expand, and cause cracking and the bread will fall. To prevent any oven spring it is essential to score the bread plus it is fun!
When scoring sourdough bread, it must be cool and firm. Sprinkle a bit of flour on your dough, give a good rub and then with a lame or razer cut slits into the dough. Slits should be in an angle and there should be deep as the tip of your fingernail.
No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe
Need sourdough bread for the week but, need it fast. This No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe is quick and easy and perfect for busy moms like me.
Ingredients
- 70 grams of sourdough starter
- 350 grams of room temperature of filtered water
- 250 grams of organic all-purpose flour
- 250 grams of organic bread flour
- 10 grams of sea salt
- Flour for dusting.
Directions
In a large bowl on a scale, mix flours, water, sourdough starter and salt. Between each ingredient remember to zero out the scale and use the grams setting. Mix ingredients well but using your hands. Your dough should feel sticky but will improve as you mix and combine everything. Cover bowl for up to twenty-four house. Some homes your dough can double in size after twelve.
Your bread dough needs to double in size and be bubbly, check after twelve and then twenty-four.
Next, remove no-knead sourdough from bowl on a flour surface. Using a bench knife to remove from bowl and to help remove from surface. Shape no-knead sourdough into a ball. Cover sourdough ball with a bowl for twenty minutes to rest.
Flour the top of the sourdough and then flip into over! Next shape into a boule.
To create a boule, stretch the corner of the dough outward and then fold inward, shape into a ball. Push the dough away and then back to you. Repeat the away and back to you motion until the ball has is tight and shaped.
Place shaped boule in a basket or a bowl lined with a tea towel with seamed up. Cover and let the dough rise for three hours for a final proof. Note if I do not have time I always cover and place in refrigerator until ready to bake.
Flip sourdough out of basket onto parchment paper and score top. Pre heat your Dutch Oven in a oven at 500 degrees.
Add No Knead Sourdough Bread Recipe to Dutch Oven and cover with lid. Bake in an oven at for twenty minutes. Lower Oven to 450 degrees and bake for 10 minutes longer. Remove lid and bake for ten more minutes.
Remove No Knead Sourdough Bread from oven and let cool for an hour before slicing on a wire rack.
Will stay fresh up to four days.
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