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easy ciabatta bread recipe with Italian EVOO (6)

Ciabatta Bread Recipe with EVOO

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If you want to try making your ciabatta bread at home, follow our easy and delicious recipe. You'll love the end product.
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Prep Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 3 hours
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Italian
Servings 8 ciabatta
Calories 200 kcal

Equipment

  • 1 large bowl
  • 1 stainless steel medium bowl
  • 1 measuring cup
  • 1 baking dish
  • kitchen scales
  • 1 wooden spoon
  • 2 tablespoons
  • cling foil
  • clean cloth
  • baking paper

Ingredients
  

Instructions
 

  • Add the flour, yeast and sugar in your large bowl.
    use flour 0 for ciabatta bread
  • Start adding your water little by little, while mixing with your wooden spoon.
    adding water to flour and yeast
  • Before you pour all the water, add the salt too and mix well.
    add salt later when making bread
  • Your dough should have formed. Pour some EVOO on all sides and use a spatula to lift it on the dough. Repeat for each side.
  • Cover your bowl with the cling wrap and leave it to leaven for 30 minutes.
    let the ciabatta dough rest and rise
  • After 30 minutes, use your clean hands to fold the dough from the sides in. Repeat for all sides. Cover again and leave for another 30 minutes.
  • Repeat the folding one more time, cover and leave to leaven for 1 hr.
  • Clean your kitchen surface and add some flour.
  • Take the dough out of the bowl and onto the flour. Add some more flour on top.
    ciabatta bread dough has risen
  • Use a dough cutter, also floured, to divide the dough into 8 or more triangles.
    flour each small ciabatta dough on both sides
  • Take each one and add some flour. Shape them into your ciabatta shapes and add them to a dish covered with baking paper & drizzled with EVOO.
  • Repeat for all the others.
  • Cover with your clean cloth and leave to rise for another 30 minutes. You can put them to rise inside the oven preheated for just a couple minutes, and then switched off.
    let the ciabatta bread rise in a slightly warm oven switched off
  • Preheat your oven to 230 degrees Celsius.
  • Prepare a water bath by adding some water to your medium stainless steel bowl.
    prepare a bowl with water to go in the oven while baking the ciabatta bread
  • It's time to bake them in the oven together with the water bath you prepared. You can put the bowl on the same level or below or above.
  • Bake the ciabatta bread at the bottom of the oven for 10 minutes. Then, lower the temperature to 190 degrees and bake at the top for 5 more minutes.
    ciabatta bread out of the oven

Notes

Calories above are for 1 average size ciabatta bread roll.
Keyword ciabatta bread, italian bread