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Simple Sourdough Bread

This simple sourdough bread is the easiest and tastiest bread you will try!
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Ingredients Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup active sourdough starter
  • 6 cups flour fresh ground or unbleached all purpose
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1/3 cup olive oil extra virgin
  • 2 cups warm water

Method
 

  1. 1. Add all ingredients to a large bowl.
  2. 2. Mix everything together with your hands, until incorporated.
  3. 3. Cover the dough in bowl and let sit for 30 minutes.
  4. 4. Optional: Stretch the dough 4 times. Think of the dough as a square. Start on the top edge, grab with fingers and stretch upward until rectangle shaped. Fold over to make a square. Turn dough and repeat.
  5. 5. Let dough rest for 30 minutes.
  6. 6. Stretch dough again 4 times.
  7. 7. Cover the dough in the bowl and let sit for 6-10 hours or overnight.
  8. **8. Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
  9. 9. Shape dough. You can dump it out and shape into 2 loaves. You can roll it out to make pizza or cinnamon rolls. Or you can cut the dough into 16 pieces and shape each into a ball to make rolls.
  10. 10. If you make bread, put the loaf onto a piece of parchment paper. Score dough with razor blade. Put the parchment paper and dough into a dutch oven. Place lid on dutch oven.
  11. 11. Bake with lid on for 20 minutes.
  12. 12. Remove lid and back for an additional 35 minutes.
  13. 13. Once the crust is a nice golden brown color, remove the bread from the oven. Take the parchment paper and bread out of the dutch oven and let cook for 15 minutes before cutting.

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Notes

**If you don't want to bake this bread right away, you can put the loaves into bowls and cover with a towel and then stick them in your fridge. They will stay good in the fridge for 5-6 days. Remove them from the fridge and begin at step 8 to bake.