Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread
- 45 g bread flour or all purpose flour
- 30 g sourdough starter (wet kind)
- 15 g water (1 Tbsp), might need 1 more Tbsp
- 425 g bread flour
- 265 g water (265 ml)
- 10 g salt
- 1/2 g active dry yeast (1 heaping 1/8 tsp)
- 30 g unsweetened cocoa powder
- 75 g dark molasses (or honey)
- 100 g semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks
- Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl.
- Cover and let rest for 12 hours at room temperature.
- After 12 hours, mix the pre-dough with the main dough ingredients in a large bowl until the dough comes together.
- Remove to a floured working surface and knead for 15 minutes until smooth and elastic.
- Fold in the chocolate in batches.
- When all chocolate is folded in, knead for 1 more minute.
- Return dough to bowl, cover and let rise 2 hours at room temperature.
- After 2 hours, divide the dough into two equal portions.
- Shape into a round boules or longer oval loaf, or one each.
- Dust with a little flour and cover with a clean cloth.
- Let rise another 3 hours.
- 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.
- When ready to bake, prepare some boiling water to pour in the tray at the bottom of the oven.
- Cut a slit down the center of each bread dough right before putting in oven to bake.
- Pour in some boiling water into the tray, then immediately put in the bread.
- Bake at 230C/445F for 10 minutes then remove the steam tray.
- Lower heat to 190C/375F and bak for another 25 minutes.
- (Total 35 minutes).
- Remove and let cool on a rack.
bread flour, sourdough starter, water, bread flour, water, salt, active dry yeast, cocoa, molasses, semisweet chocolate
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/266013-chocolate-chunk-sourdough-bread (may not work)