Recipe of Award-winning Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chocolate chunk sourdough bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have chocolate chunk sourdough bread using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread:

1. Take Sourdough Pre-dough
2. Take 45 g bread flour or all purpose flour
3. Make ready 30 g sourdough starter (wet kind)
4. Make ready 15 g water (1 Tbsp), might need 1 more Tbsp
5. Get Main Dough
6. Prepare 425 g bread flour
7. Make ready 265 g water (265 ml)
8. Prepare 10 g salt
9. Prepare 1/2 g active dry yeast (1 heaping 1/8 tsp)
10. Make ready 30 g unsweetened cocoa powder
11. Prepare 75 g dark molasses (or honey)
12. Prepare Mix-ins
13. Make ready 100 g semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks

Steps to make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread:

1. Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl. Cover and let rest for 12 hours at room temperature.
2. After 12 hours, mix the pre-dough with the main dough ingredients in a large bowl until the dough comes together.
3. Remove to a floured working surface and knead for 15 minutes until smooth and elastic.
4. Fold in the chocolate in batches.
5. When all chocolate is folded in, knead for 1 more minute.
6. Return dough to bowl, cover and let rise 2 hours at room temperature.
7. After 2 hours, divide the dough into two equal portions. Shape into a round boules or longer oval loaf, or one each.
8. Dust with a little flour and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise another 3 hours.
9. Preheat oven to 230C/445F. While preheating, place a shallow tray at the bottom of the oven for creating steam. We'll be pouring in boiling water in right before baking to get the steam.
10. When ready to bake, prepare some boiling water to pour in the tray at the bottom of the oven.
11. Cut a slit down the center of each bread dough right before putting in oven to bake.
12. Pour in some boiling water into the tray, then immediately put in the bread. Bake at 230°C/445°F for 10 minutes then remove the steam tray. Lower heat to 190°C/375°F and bak for another 25 minutes. (Total 35 minutes). Remove and let cool on a rack.

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