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Homemade Sourdough Bread

There’s something so special about a fresh-baked loaf of bread. That crust, the sourness you get from fermentation. Chef Mikel Anthony adds the rich, deep flavor and unique natural sweetness of California Prunes for the perfect touch to this homemade sourdough bread. This recipe is part of the Chef’s Roll Test Kitchen Series.

Featuring California Prunes

Ingredients

700 g	water (27ºC)
50 g	water
200 g	leaven
900 g	white flour
100 g	whole wheat flour
20 g	salt
1/4 cup	Chopped California Prunes
50/50	rice flour and wheat flour

Step 1
Add the water and leaven into the bowl and stir until the leaven is dispersed. Add the 1,000 g of flour to the mixture and mix thoroughly until you don’t see any bits of dry flour. Let rest for 30 minutes.
Step 2
Add 20 g of salt and 50 g of warm water. incorporate the salt while squeezing your gingers into the dough. Fold the dough until itself after salt is dispersed and place it into a clear container.
Step 3
Now for bulk ferment/ rise for 4 hours. During the first 2 hours. Wet one hand and pull the corner of the dough up about 6 inches and gently fold over itself. Do it to each corner up to 3 folds every half hour. So a total of 4 turns within that 2 hours. During each turn add the prunes slowly so they fold in gently.
Step 4
Let rest the additional two hours.
Step 5
Remove out of the bowl with a wet spatula. Use as little flour as possible and a bench knife to fold and form the dough into a loaf shape. This builds tension and helps with the oven spring.
Step 6
Once shaped let rest on the bench for 30 minutes.
Step 7
Flip and lightly add flour then form a loaf.
Step 8
Mix 50/50 rice flour and wheat flour and coat a towel inside a bowl and place the smooth side down into the floured towel in the bowl. Let rest and rise for 4 hours or refrigerate overnight.
Step 9
Heat oven to 260 °C. Place your dutch oven/ cast iron pot into the oven and let heat up 10-15 minutes.
Step 10
Remove your loaf from the bowl into the cooking vessel. Score with a bread lame. Reduce oven temp to 232°C and bake for 20 minutes with the lid on.
Step 11
Remove the lid and bake another 20 minutes or until the crust caramelizes.
Step 12
Let cool 2+ hours before slicing. Enjoy your homemade sourdough with this prune jam!

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Homemade Sourdough Bread

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