Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread
Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chocolate chunk sourdough bread. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

This Chocolate Chocolate Chip Sourdough Banana Bread is studded with chocolate chips and with cocoa powder and is a great way to use sourdough starter. My first sourdough starter I ever had I started the summer before I went to college. I dragged it off to NAU for undergrad school.

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

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

Using a sourdough and long fermentation time gives it great flavor. I love using dark molasses to make it extra dark and to give it more complexity. Eat with good butter for a divine. When chunks of chocolate are added to delicious sourdough bread, something truly magical happens.

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.

On top of smelling amazing, this bread is almost like a giant chocolate croissant, and is perfect for a special breakfast, brunch, or snack (especially lightly toasted and smeared with butter or Nutella and served warm). The conclusion of this chocolate sourdough bread recipe. This is a very different beast of a sourdough bread but it absolutely delicious and doesn't seem like anything else I've tried before. Like a regular sourdough bread, the crust is super crunchy and the crumb is soft and somewhat stretchy. Chocolate Chip Sourdough Muffins Chocolate Chip Sourdough Muffins.

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