Pain au levain

Sourdough bread

Ingredients

Preparation

  • In a bowl, mix the flours with the water and leave to stand for 45 minutes.
  • Dissolve the salt in 20g of water.
  • Add the sourdough and salted water to the flour mixture.
  • Make flaps by pressing well with your fist to incorporate all the water and leaven into the flour mixture. Then leave to rest for 30 minutes.
  • Leave the bread to rise for 3 hours, making flaps every 30 minutes to give the bread body.
  • After 3 hours, make a ball with 4 flaps and arrange the bread in a banneton.
  • Cover and let rise again for 3 hours at room temperature or 12 hours in the refrigerator.
  • Preheat the oven to 250°C with the casserole inside. Once hot, put the bread in the casserole, score the bread and bake in the closed casserole for 20 minutes.
  • After that, bake again for 10 minutes without the lid to finish cooking and color the bread. Let cool on wire rack after baking.
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