RECIPE OF CIABATTA 天然酵母拖鞋面包食谱

This bread is suitable for dinner. 

Dip with my homemade spicy mint sauce is heavenly. 

Please find below ingredients:

Ingredients:

Sponge Dough - 50 gram

(Bread Flour 150 gram, Natural Yeast Starter 100gram, Water 45 gram, 1/4 teaspoon of Salt)
Mix all the ingredients. Rest dough until it has double its size. Keep in the fridge. Else, can keep in the freezer. Use it when needed. For this recipe, we only need 50 gram of the sponge dough)

Natural Yeast Starter 100 gram

Bread flour 115 gram

Whole Wheat Flour 10 gram

Salt 1/2 teaspoon

Olive Oil 10 gram

Water 50 gram

Method:

1. Place all the above ingredients according to your BM instruction. (Except oil)

2.Select dough mode for 15 minutes, add in oil for another 15 minutes.

3.Proof bread for 2 hours. After 1st proof, punch down the air.

4. Roll into log shape.

5.Then rest the dough for another 120  minutes. Brush bread with some egg wash and sprinkle some spices (Optional)

6. Preheat oven @ 220 C and bake for 10 minutes.

7. Then, reduce the temperature to 200 C and put a cup of water in your oven and bake for another 8 minutes. (when come to 6 minutes, sprinkle some water on your bread dough). This will make your bread has a crunchy top, due to the steamer effect.

Note:By sharing our experiences in baking, we could improve further the recipe. Hence i would appreciate if you could kindly link back your baking experiences to my blog for sharing and further improvement.