Whole Wheat Einkorn Sourdough Bread Food

SOURDOUGH BREADS WITH EINKORN FLOUR

Steps:

• If making a 100% whole grain sourdough bread is your goal, prepare your sourdough starter by feeding it with whole grain einkorn or yecora rojo flours. I fed my starter einkorn flour for the first two recipes, and for the third recipe, I used a mix of all my ripe starters (60g rye starter, 40g all purpose starter).
• Combine all the ingredients in a medium size bowl and mix until well incorporated.
• Cover the bowl or transfer the dough to a straight-walled bucket and let the dough rest for about 30 minutes. Then do 2-3 rounds of gluten development with half-hour rests in between.
• Let the dough continue to rise until it's 40-50% larger than its original size. All of the recipes reached this point in about 4 hours in a warm summer kitchen. Depending on the room temperature and your starter strength, your dough may need longer for this bulk fermentation.
• Scrape your dough out onto a floured countertop and shape it into a boule, batard, or oblong loaf, depending on your proofing basket and baking vessel shape. I did a pre-shape and bench-rest on the 70:30 dough only because I had struggled to get it out of the dough rising bucket, and I wanted it to be a uniform oval when I shaped it into a batard.
• Transfer the dough to a well-floured proofing basket and cover it.
• Let the dough proof 30-60 minutes at room temperature, possibly longer in a cold kitchen, and then refrigerate it for several hours to overnight. Or do the entire final proof in the refrigerator or at room temperature for 1-2 hours, again depending on your kitchen temperature and the dough's appearance. See the photo galleries below for target dough expansion in the basket.
• Preheat your oven and baking vessel for 30 minutes at 500°F.
• Flip your dough out of the proofing basket onto parchment paper and score it.
• Transfer the dough to your baking vessel, cover, and bake for:
• 20 minutes at 500F with the lid on
• 15-20 minutes at 450F with the lid off
• When the bread is done, the internal temperature should be over 205°F and the bread should sound hollow when you knock on the bottom of the loaf with your fist.
• Let the bread cool at least 2 hours before slicing.

WHOLE WHEAT EINKORN SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• In a large, non-metal bowl (I have this set of pyrex glass bowls and I use the largest bowl), combine the starter with the water and honey. Make sure your water is between 105F and 110F and no warmer.
• Add 6 cups of whole wheat einkorn flour and the salt. Stir the dough using big, gentle strokes that scrape the outside of the bowl and come inward towards the center of the bowl. DON'T stir vigorously making tiny circles in the center of the bowl. Stir until the dough looks mostly wet and slightly shaggy. The dough will not be super firm and spring back to the touch like a traditional yeast dough.
• Let the dough rest for 15 minutes, then sprinkle a little bit of flour over the top of the dough and around the edge of the bowl. Fold the dough by reaching in on the outside of the dough (along the sides of the bowl). Gently scoop the dough and fold it over towards the top, center of the dough. Turn the bowl ¼ of a turn and repeat the gentle scoop and fold over process until you've worked your way around the entire bowl.
• Move a rack in your oven to the lowest setting. Cover the dough tightly with plastic wrap and place the bowl on the rack. Turn the oven light on and close the oven door. Let the dough rest undisturbed for 8-12 hours.
• Prepare your banneton basket. Flour it VERY WELL. If you don't want to bake a boule, you can use a loaf pan lined with parchment paper.
• Lightly flour your working surface and scoop out the dough. Do not turn the bowl over and dump the dough out. As best as possible, you want whatever part of the dough was at the bottom of the bowl to be resting on your floured surface, and the portion of the dough that was facing upward in the bowl, still be facing upward.
• Pull the corners, or the outside of the dough up and over towards the center of the dough. Do this scoop and fold motion around the entire loaf until it's a round-ish shape and firm enough to handle. Flour your hands and flip the entire round of dough over.
• Create a "turn and tuck" motion by placing your hands on the outside of the dough and turning the dough counter-clockwise while tucking the dough underneath itself. Continue this "turn and tuck" motion for about 2-4 minutes. This will create a seal underneath and the top will become smooth.
• When the top is smooth and you have a mostly round shape, flour the top of the dough well and turn it upside down into the prepared, well-floured banneton. The seam of the dough should be visible.
• Move a rack in your oven to the lowest setting. Cover the dough tightly with plastic wrap and place the banneton on the rack. Turn the oven light on and close the oven door. Set a timer and let the dough rest undisturbed for 1 hour.
• When the timer is done, remove the dough from the oven and place in a warm location.
• Preheat the oven to 500F and place a 6-quart dutch oven with the lid on, in the oven. Let the Dutch oven preheat for 30-60 minutes while your dough finishes its second rise.
• When you're ready to bake, reduce the oven temperature to 450F and pull out the Dutch oven using oven mitts.
• With your oven mitts on, flip the banneton over so that the dough dumps directly into the Dutch oven, seam down. If the dough doesn't come out centered into the pot, wait 20 seconds or so, then grab the handles and shake the dough so it's centered.
• Place the lid on the Dutch oven and bake for 20 minutes. When the timer is done, remove the lid and continue to bake for another 20 minutes.
• When the timer is done again, remove the pot from the oven, and with your oven mitts on, reach in and remove the loaf of sourdough bread. Place the bread on a cooling rack to cool for two hours.