Makes 4 loaves
Starter dough (the day before)
What you’ll need
- 2 1/4 cups bread flour
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/4 tsp. yeast (dry)
What to do
- In a large bowl or plastic container, combine flour and yeast, then add water.
- Mix with spoon or hands until all dry ingredients are hydrated, it should have no dry spots and be somewhere between a dough and a batter.
- Leave overnight, covered
Final dough
What you’ll need
- 5 1/8 cups bread flour
- 2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 2 1/2 teaspoons yeast (dry)
- Starter dough
What to do
(in same container)
- put flour, salt, yeast on top of starter dough (which will now be nice and bubbly and fragrant)
- combine these dry ingredients together so salt and yeast are distributed evenly throughout flour
- add water, hottest you can get it out of the tap
- mix everything together with your hands until there is no dry flour
big sticky mess
- rest for 20 minutes covered
- knead the dough – I left mine in the container and folded it on itself over and over again
- rest for one hour, covered
- fold dough – fold each of the 4 sides into the middle and flip the whole thing over so it is smaller and tighter
- rest for one hour, covered
- cut out rough pieces (you can use a bread knife – wetting it first helps, but I just used my hands- wet- to make pieces)
- put pieces on baking sheet with tiny amount of olive oil to prevent sticking.
- let rise for 15-20 minutes
- bake at 450 for 20-25 minutes
- check that top and bottom are evenly baking. after 10 minutes, I switched my baking sheets and moved the top sheet to the bottom and bottom sheet to the top. Watch the bottom of the breads so they don’t burn.
- Enjoy! I ate mine by making an olive oil and cracked black pepper dip.
I love making ciabatta, it really couldn’t be easier. I always use the recipe from WildYeastBlog.
http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2007/08/27/overnight-ciabatta/
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Oh yes, I wanted to add that if you use parchment under the bread they don’t stick. I do that and then I slide them onto my baking stone in the oven.
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I’ve never made ciabatta bread before, but it looks sooo tasty. I just want to grab it right off the page. Since I love making homemade bread, I’ll definitely have to try this sometime soon.
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Next on my baking list….
My nesting is taking the form of baking this time around…. We currently have about 15 loaves of fresh bread in the freezer. Brandon’s going to die when he finds out I have a new recipe that makes 4 loaves…. LOL!
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Ohh Emily! Your buns look fabulous.
I must admit – I don’t make bread…mostly since I know I’d eat the whole batch!
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YUMMY!
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Fox, you always leave comments that make me laugh. Glad you like my buns
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ooh, i’ve been wanting to make homemade bread lately. i made some cornbread today, but that doesn’t count because there’s no yeast. ciabatta…now that would satisfy my craving!
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Oh they look good and fun to make with little ones. I’ll give those a go this weekend
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Em,
I agree with Squawkfox, your buns do look fabulous!!
-DH
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