Turkish Team's Experience with Sourdough Bread

  • Ingredients:

    300 gr. of chickpea flour

    36 gr. of whole grained flour

    1 tbl spoon of natural honey (not industrial)

    7 dried figs

    ½ liter boiled and cooled water

    1 liter capacity jar with lid

    225 gr of (sour dough water) will be taken  after draining the figs at 5th day.

    6gr salt

    The Steps of Sourdough Bread:

     

           

             

     

               Preparation:

    • First, wash the dried figs and cut them as big pieces.
    • Drain the figs and put them into the jar. Add ½ boiled and cooled water and honey in jar.
    • Mix slowly and put the lid limply not tightly.
    • Wait for 5 days and mix slowly everyday without smashing the figs.
    • At the end of the 1st day, you will see the figs will float at the top and they will dissolve from water. You will also see bubbles on the top.
    • Take 10 gr. of water from this mixture and add 10 gr of white flour into a glass and wait for fermantation in room temperature for 18 hours.
    • This fermantation dough should leaven 1/3 proportion.If this test is successful, we are ready to use it for bread making.
    • Except from salt, mix all the ingredients, cover the top with a cloth and wait for 30 minutes in room temparature.(autolyse)
    • At the end of 30 minutes, add the salt and knead the dough for 15 minutes.
    • Put the dough in a greasy cap in a shape you like and wait for a while.
    • Bake it and Bon Appetite!

     

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