The Sourdough Recipe I Wish I Had as a Beginner
Looking for a beginner-friendly sourdough recipe with more flavour and better nutrition? This country loaf blends whole wheat, spelt, and bread flour into a dough that’s easy to handle and bakes beautifully.
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Newbie here. Should I follow quantities in total ingredient formula or dough formula please?
Hello chef. Can’t thank you enough enough with this great recipe and method. I made today and it’s absolutely amazing. I followed the same recipe exactly, as well for your method following 2 laminations, which is my first time to do it. The result was superb. Great oven spring with wide open crombs and very light texture. Great crust as well. I just increased the hydration with 2% making it 70% hydration as my flours are very high protein content. Thank you again chef. I was really happy & satisfied
I am new at this – have tried to bake approx 5 times .. Why is my "dense " bread sour tasting ???
Amazing recipe! The flavours is superb! Just baked it, flavour amazing oven spring relatively ok but the crumb is not as open as yours. Any suggestion to get a more open crumb? More time on bulk fermentation perhaps? Thanks
The sourdough recipe I wish I HAD HAD as a beginner
At 8:23 you're mentioning baking covered for 20min at 220C. At 8:35 you say after you're removing the cover after 25 min. Can you specify the exact time?
After this you mention baking for another 25-30 minutes, is this right? If yes, at which temperature do you bake? My bread would be too colored after this amount of time. With colored I mean really burned. Thanks in advance for your reply!
This looks like a bullet proof recipe, I have been using your Sourdough Reboot recipe which has really worked for me. I also bought a cloche like yours to cover my loaf in the oven, instead of using a dutch oven. I wondered what size your baking stone is?
In 2022, I dehydrated some sour dough starter and froze it. Surprisingly enough (for me), following your instructions on how to rehydrate, it worked and I am making my first loaf from that. Thank you!
yes! fructans give me that bloating and not gluten!1! now I eat 100% sourdough only few times a week and sigh I do not have to eat bad taste gluten free bad breads…other days I use millets sorghum ragi and kodo millets(should not be consumed daily) and rice and corn!!! now my ibs is going down!
My issue is the starter so I’m off to search further!
Looks fantastic 🎉
some tips if you're running in a moderately high temp climate (27-29c indoors) you should expect to lower your bulk fermentation time to 5-6 hours. In my experience the dough to should rise to only 30-50% as it would always overfement if exceeded the 6 hour bulk ferment. To adapt to this recipe, bulk rise to 4.5-5 hours then shape the dough into your basket and left it on the counter to rise for another hour before cold retard in the fridge.
I think this is very similar to your old "hands off sourdough" video, which was the one that finally made it all click for me. Compared to that one, this seems faster paced, and less focused on smelling, observing and feeling, and a bit too fast paced for newcomers that want to crack the code. I do think the flourblend is better in this recipe!
Bonjour est-ce que je pourrais avoir s’il vous plaît votre pas de levain la recette de votre le vin s’il vous plaît merci
I don't have rice flour handy: I guess buckwheat should do the job almost as well (I suppose the point is that it's gluten-free and therefore won't stick, right?).
Just happened on your channel this morning, Phil. My lucky day!!! Have been having so much trouble with successful baking of sourdough but I think I’ve hit the jackpot this time! My starter is raring to go so I’ll be making this loaf sometime this week. And your voice – I believe I could listen to you read a telephone book and it would be sexy. Thanks, friend.
What's the protein % of the Manitoba oro?
A great recipe fully and simply explained and demonstrated
Whoa! Outstanding exterior structure, color, and crumb!! And you know I love the blistering. Might have to pick up some more of the Caputo Manitoba Oro!!
Great to seenyou are still at this old.pal. You got me started 4 years ago and im still going guided by you. Thank you and I'm sure you will inspire many many more.
I don't have spelt on hand right now, so I'll do this with einkorn. Yummy yummy!
Hello Phil. This look amazing. I will try it. Thank you!
How do you judge the 75% bulk ferment?
5 yrs ago, I came across your recipe for sourdough. To this day is the best sourdough recipe I've ever tried and the only one I use every time I bake sourdough. Thank you 🥰
That's a beauty! Thanks!
I have been baking bread in Roasting Pans for going on two years now, and as I am trying to grow my business and scale up, I am trying to open bake and failing on every loaf. It's a little discouraging and humiliating. My loaves in DO or roasters are pretty nice. I picked up a used electric wall oven even. I have followed yours and many other videos on the open bake and it isn't rocket science yet here I am. Not sure what I am doing wrong at this point. Oven temp preheat 475F with a pan filled with Lava Rocks. Drop the temps to 450F as I slide bread in the oven. Pour a cup and half of boiling water into the pan and even give a quick spray in the oven and close it up. 18 minutes later, I open to remove the pan and drop the temps to 450F but the ear on the loaves always close back up and it looks like a football. Good spring and crumb but bad looing. So any advice from anyone would be welcome.
Your voice could make picking weeds sound fun and exciting. Great videos, have a blessed week
Can’t find the recipe on your website
That loaf looks brilliant! Would this recipe work with 12% protein unbleached white bread flour? I can't find anything higher where I live in Australia.
its looks so delicious👍🙏
That starter looks heavenly delicious.😋
Best sourdough channel on YT. This Plaisio bag has helped ferment a ton of loaves 🙂
Wow! That looks incredible