Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Add the flour, yeast and sugar in your large bowl.
- Start adding your water little by little, while mixing with your wooden spoon.
- Before you pour all the water, add the salt too and mix well.
- 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.
- 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.
- Use a dough cutter, also floured, to divide the dough into 8 or more triangles.
- 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.
- Preheat your oven to 230 degrees Celsius.
- Prepare a water bath by adding some water to your medium stainless steel bowl.
- 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.
Nutrition
Notes
Calories above are for 1 average size ciabatta bread roll.