Recipe: Perfect Basic sourdough bread

Basic sourdough bread.

You can cook Basic sourdough bread using 4 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Basic sourdough bread

1. It's 500 g of sourdough starter.
2. Prepare 500 g of bread flour.
3. You need 275 ml of water.
4. Prepare 15 g of salt.

Basic sourdough bread instructions

1. Mix starter, flour, water together until it barely comes together..
2. Wait 20 minutes while the flour hydrates..
3. Add salt, stretch and fold several times..
4. In 10+ minute intervals, continue to stretch and fold until the dough is smooth..
5. Let it rise for 1-2 hours, then form it into whatever shape you like..
6. Let it rise again, preheat oven and enamel dutch oven to 500°F..
7. Place dough on a sheet of parchment, and into the dutch oven. Score the surface with a razor blade, cover, and throw it into the oven..
8. After about 15 minutes, lower the oven temperature to 400°F. Bake until internal temperature reaches at least 180°F, then remove and cool for at least one hour..