Chleba - Sourdough bread

I'm going to take you through the process of making homemade a sourdough bread, this recipe takes some time, but it is a simple one and for those of you, who do not have food scales it's perfect, because we are going to with measuring cups so let's get it to it it's just a long process.

 Ingredients:

4 cups of flour (bread flour, wheat flour…)

1/4 cup active sourdough starter 

2 teaspoons fine ground sea salt 

1 1/2 cup filtered water or bottled water

Steps:

1. Pour 1 ½ cups of filtered water into bowl with ¼ cup of starter

2. Mix it well together

3. Add 2 teaspoons of salt, mix it up into the starter liquid

4. Add 4 cups flour and plus 2 tablespoons of flour

5. Knead all together, this just needs to come together, just making sure that it's all gathered up

6. Let it rest for 1h

7. “Strech and a fold” start our first stretch and fold divide your bowl into four quarters and you will grab one side of the dough, you will stretch it out and you'll fold it on top the dough, then you will turn your bowl one quarter clockwise or counterclockwise, whichever one you want and then you once again stretch the dough out and you fold it over and then you turn your bowl again stretch it up and fold it over until you have gone full circle, once you have completed your last stretch and fold you will cover your dough with your lid or plastic wrap and let this dough rest for 30min, again perform the exact same procedure and then you're going to cover your dough and let it ferment for 7-10 hours

8. After 7-10 hours we're going to take it out to shape it into a little ball and let it rest one more time 1h before we stick it into the oven (rise overnight is the best option while everyone sleeps, and no need watch the timing)

9.  Pull the dough out of the bowl turn your dough out onto a floured surface, we're going to shape it into a little ball so you're going to, pretend that your dough has four corners and you're going to grab two opposing corners and you're going to be pulling them towards each other so you're going to do that on one side and the other two corners.

10.  Take your dough and flip it over with the seam side, you're going to carefully try to shape it into a circle you can put your hands on either side of your dough and kind of tuck and roll the ball towards yourself

11.  Grab some parchment paper, going to cut out a piece hat's a little bit bigger than dough and put onto the parchment paper and put it back into the bowl and cover

12.  Let it rise more hour 

13.  30min before your dough is finished rising, you're going to turn on to 450 degrees, but you're take 2 ice cubes and put them into the Dutch oven, this is a neat little trick to help create lots of steam inside of the Dutch oven that helps your bread rise once the oven is heated 

14.  Take out the dough and now it's time for scoring with a sharp razor blade

15.  Pull out your Dutch oven very carefully using oven mitts or silicone gloves if you have them your Dutch oven is going to be extremely hot be very careful and put the whole bread in the Dutch oven open the oven and put it in

16.  Baking for 20min, after that take off the lied off and bake another 30min

I added cheese, jalapeno for my own desires, don't

be afraid add what you like in your own bread!

There’s nothing more satisfying than being able to create delicious bread for yourself and your family and knowing exactly which ingredients go into it.