Chef John's Sourdough Bread

c/o https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/260540/chef-johns-sourdough-bread/

By Chef Jon

Making your own sourdough bread does take a while, but the amount of actual work is minimal--and the bread you'll get is spectacular! See the footnote link to how to make the sourdough starter.

Ingredients:

• 100 grams sourdough starter
• 250 grams water
• 8 grams kosher salt
• 394 grams bread flour
• rice flour for bread form (banneton)
• 1 10-inch banneton (proofing basket)

Direction

1. Measure out starter into a bowl. Add water, salt, and bread flour...
2. With wet hands, fold dough over on itself 3 or 4 times...
3. Generously dust a bread form with rice flour...
4. Scrape dough out onto a lightly floured surface...
5. Cover and refrigerate 12 hours...
6. Remove loaf from the refrigerator and let it rise...
7. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F...
8. Dust surface of dough with flour...
9. Bake in the center of preheated oven...
10. Transfer to a rack to cool completely...

Chef's Notes:

Nutrition Information:

Servings Per Recipe:

Calories: 204.8

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