It has long been loved by the Russians. It is so convenient to cook grilled sandwiches, croutons and croutons for serving with various sauces from it! If you are wondering how to prepare ciabatta at home, then read this article. We will share with you the secrets of its preparation, as well as describe some of the most popular recipes.
If you decide to cook this fragrant Italian bread according to all the rules of culinary art, then be patient and approach the cooking process as seriously as possible. Cooking ciabatta at home:
After half an hour, when the bread is sufficiently browned, turn off the oven and call your family to the table.
The preparation of this bread will not cause difficulties for an experienced hostess. However, you should pay attention to some of the nuances of this recipe. So, how is real Italian ciabatta made at home? The process is:
Making ciabatta at home can be a creative process for you. Try to make bread with the addition of cheese - and your loved ones will definitely appreciate the new dish. For this:
After half an hour, the bread will acquire a golden crust and will be ready. Serve it to the table with fragrant sauces or make it the basis for sandwiches.
This recipe was invented specifically for those cases when tasty and fragrant bread was left out of work and became stale. You can fix the current situation with the help of small tricks. Spicy ciabatta at home is prepared as follows:
As you can see, Italian ciabatta is not so difficult to prepare at home. The main thing is to choose your favorite recipe and get down to business.
Today we have an unprecedented event - a recipe for shamelessly white bread - Italian ciabatta! But as an example of working with wet dough and kneading it in an Ankarsrum kneader, it is perfect. In addition, admit, despite the ardent love for whole grain healthy bread, past ciabatta (this is the correct pronunciation, I was not mistaken) is still difficult to pass, this is not bread, but magic! The dough is silky, stretches with transparent films, puffs up with bubbles, fluid and elastic at the same time, the bread is porous and spongy, but not as pliable as a featherbed. At the same time, the taste of bread is also surprising: there is no butter or sugar in it, but it is so soft and creamy, and how beautiful it is!
Many people are afraid to bake ciabatta because the recipe seems very complicated, working with it is scary, they can’t believe that they will get the desired “holes” in the bread. In fact, everything is not so difficult, you just need to know how to do it right, and then everything will work out. Shall we start?
For steam you need:
150 gr. wheat white flour;
150 gr. water;
10 gr. rye or wheat tarter.
I baked two options at once, one on a thick Italian sourdough (disposal of leftovers) and the second on a 100% sourdough, I will dwell on the second variant in more detail. Dissolve the starter in water, add flour and mix, cover with cling film and leave overnight. In the morning, we should get a fluffy sourdough with lots of bubbles.
For test:
Whole sourdough (dough);
315 gr. white wheat flour;
215 gr. water (warm, about 30 degrees);
10 gr. salt;
½ tsp bio-yeast + a pinch of sugar.
If you are against yeast to the bone, do not take yeast, and without it everything will work out (but longer), but initially the recipe suggests the presence of these. The dough for this recipe turns out to be quite wet, so to make it convenient to work with, you need to know a few tricks.
batch.I kneaded with a stationary scraper and hook, most often I use the hook.
Weigh all the ingredients in separate containers, pour some of the water (50-70 grams) into a cup, add a small pinch of sugar, pour in the yeast, mix and set aside. After 15 minutes, a small yeast cap should appear in the cup.
This cup of water is strategic, if you're using yeast that doesn't need to be activated, still discard some water (no yeast) to add as you knead, this will help you get a firmer, less runny dough.
Pour the rest of the water into the mixing bowl, dissolve the leaven, sift the flour and turn on the mixer at minimum speed for a couple of minutes. The contents of the bowl should first turn into a lumpy mass, then, as the flour is mixed and moistened, into a sticky dough. Turn off the mixer, cover the bowl with a wide bag so that the dough does not dry out and leave for 20 minutes.
After 20 minutes, add half the yeast water and salt (do not mix yeast water with salt, salt inhibits yeast), start kneading on speed 3. When the added water is completely combined with the dough, add the rest of the water (with or without yeast) and continue kneading for another 7 minutes, maximum 10.
The finished dough will be silky and fluid, if left alone for a few minutes, it will immediately spread along the bottom of the bowl.
First remove the scraper from the dough mixer, then the hook, and then, using a manual scraper, remove the dough and transfer it to a bowl greased with vegetable oil. Fold the dough, pull into a ball and lay to rise. The dough will begin to spread out almost immediately.
Fermentation 2.5-3 hours, during this time it is desirable to fold the dough at least three times. But if you notice that the dough “weakens” and becomes more fluid during fermentation, fold it every half hour. By the end of fermentation, it should become lush and bubbles should appear inside it.
Dust your work surface well with flour and turn out the dough. Sprinkle it with flour and carefully stretch it into a rectangle. I worked with the dough on a floured towel, on which I sometimes spread the dough.
Divide the dough into two parts with a scraper, form blanks, wrapping the dough with an overlap. I also rolled up the long ends of the dough to fit under my hat. If necessary, transfer the workpieces to a linen towel rubbed with flour (if not molded on it).
Make towel edges around the blanks so that the blanks do not stick together and do not spread, provide support to the extreme sides, sprinkle the ciabattas with flour. Proofing time 1.5 hours. During this time, I checked the blanks a couple of times to see if they stuck to the towel and sprinkled the problem areas with flour.
Preheat the oven to 230-240 degrees with stone, I warmed for 40 minutes, as usual. If you are planning to bake under a hood or in a roaster, and your “bell” has thick walls, then, like the duckling, you need to heat it together with the oven, that is, heat it up in advance. Carefully transfer the blanks or one blank onto the parchment (I baked in turn, so I shifted one blank) and turn over to the other side so that the bubbles in the dough are evenly distributed (and so they will be concentrated on the top of the bread). It is important here not to stretch the workpiece, you need to take it from the long sides so that, on the contrary, it folds like an “accordion”, and carefully level it on the parchment. The first 15 minutes of baking with steam or under a hood, after 15 minutes remove the steam without lowering the temperature, bake for another 15 minutes.
Wait until it cools down to at least warm, and cut, cut, do not be sorry! This is a wonderful bread)) Try to bake it, it's a great pleasure!
Italy and Italians can rightly be proud of their bread, its taste, appearance, variety. From many names - focaccia, rosetta, ciabatta, chirela, bovolo, it blows with a pleasant bread "spirit". All these types of bread are good in their own way. Some of them, such as ciabatta, can be baked at home in the oven, which we will do by preparing homemade ciabatta.
It is convenient to take the simplest recipe as the basis for homemade ciabatta. It does not require much effort to knead the bread dough, but it does take time to ferment. It is optimal to put the dough at eight or nine in the evening. In the morning form a ciabatta and bake it. Thus, by about eight in the morning there will be delicious fresh bread with a crispy, toasted crust and a tender crumb with “holes” that look like holes in good cheese.
Ingredients for two buns:
You will also need a saucepan, five times larger in volume than the volume of dough during kneading.
1. Pour yeast into water. The water should be slightly warmer than the temperature in the room, about 30 degrees.
2. Add flour and salt. Mix the dough with a spoon or spatula without kneading it with your hands and without removing it from the pan. The dough is more liquid than for other types of bread.
3. The dough for ciabatta will be suitable for about 7 - 8 hours.
4. When this process is over, you need to take a baking sheet. Cover it with baking paper and pour a few tablespoons of flour on it.
5. Carefully remove half of the dough.
Lay it on the flour and fold all four edges up, forming a rectangular ciabatta.
Do the same with the second part of the test.
6. Once formed, the ciabatta stands for another hour.
7. Place a tray on the bottom of the oven. Pour about one cm of water into it. This is necessary to maximize the rise of ciabatta during cooking in the oven. In Italy, ciabatta is cooked in wood-burning ovens, which provide the bread with a spongy soft crumb and a crispy crust.
Place a baking sheet with bread in the center of the oven. Set the maximum temperature. As a rule, in domestic ovens it is +240.
8. As soon as the top crust turns brown, turn off the fire.
Leave the ciabatta in the oven for about an hour.
The resulting Italian ciabatta bread will be so delicious that it can be eaten in an instant.
2 cups of flour
1 glass of water (250 ml)
1.5 teaspoons dry yeast
Leaven
3.5 cups flour
2 cups water (500 ml)
1.5 teaspoons of salt
a small amount of olive oil for greasing the mold and the blades of the combine
There are several methods and many recipes for ciabatta. The cooking option I propose is one of them and does not claim to be absolute. It was formed from the recipe of an "Italian Italian" living in America, who grew up on this bread, a master class by an Italian chef - I spied on the process of standing-folding the dough from him and recommendations for baking ciabatta at home, taken by me from a book on Italian cuisine . I love this recipe and I hope you enjoy it too.
COOKING:
The sourdough is prepared on the eve of baking, because. requires fermentation (from 4 to 24 hours at room temperature). Ready sourdough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. For sourdough, mix dry yeast and water. Let stand for 5 minutes so that the yeast is saturated with water and goes into solution, stir and gradually add the amount of flour required by the recipe. Be sure to sift the flour, if it is not lazy, then sift twice. As a result, you should get a watery dough, the consistency of which is usually compared with thick oatmeal, i.e. it will be thick enough that it won't slip off the spoon, but not thick enough that you can knead it.
After kneading, let the dough stand - breathe for 10-15 minutes, close the container with the starter with a lid or film and leave at room temperature for at least 4 hours, and for a maximum of a day. It is not recommended to leave the starter for more than 24 hours, because. yeast may begin to mutate. If necessary, you can put the starter in the refrigerator, where it can be stored for up to 4 days. If you are very short on time, you can determine the readiness of the starter in this way: during the fermentation process, the starter will first grow, then its growth will stop, the surface will be covered with bursting bubbles, and it will begin to settle. As soon as the starter begins to reverse movement - settling, it can be used. I usually make the sourdough the day before and just leave it on the table.
The dough for ciabatta is convenient to knead in a food processor, as it is quite liquid and sticky.
Lubricate the blades of the combine with olive oil, put the starter into the bowl and turn on the combine at low speeds. Gently, in small portions, add slightly warm water. When the water is fully incorporated, add the sifted flour in small portions. In the last portion of flour before mixing in the dough, add the amount of salt required by the recipe. After all the components are added and the dough takes on a uniform appearance, it is necessary to knead it well. To do this, gradually increase the speed of the mixer and knead for about 20 minutes. If you knead the dough in a large bowl, then you will notice that at the very beginning of kneading the dough will actively stick to literally everything and in all directions - to the walls of the bowl, to the bottom, to the blades, but in the process of kneading it will start to stray into a lump, will cease to stick to the walls and will, as it were, rise up the blades. This means that the dough is sufficiently kneaded and ready for proofing. Usually, after the dough has come together, it is customary to knead it for another 5 minutes at a good speed of rotation of the combine. Along the way, a few words about the consistency of the test. Since ciabattas are different, the dough for them is prepared differently in consistency. In production parlance, this is called the hydration level of the dough. The higher the hydration level of the dough, the looser the ciabatta will be, i.e. the more liquid the dough, the larger the hole. My recipe produces a dough with a medium level of hydration, but you can easily add flour and get ciabattas with a denser crumb, or vice versa, you can add a little less flour and then your ciabattas will be even more full of holes.
Well kneaded dough for ciabatta is stretched "out the window". This is professional baker's jargon, which means that the dough stretches well and can be stretched so thin that a window gap is visible through it, and when stretched, such dough breaks in the center, forming a window.
Grease a proofing bowl with olive oil and lay out the dough. So that the dough does not stick to your hands, grease your hands with olive oil or moisten with water. Personally, I prefer water. Cover the dough with a lid or film and leave at room temperature for 40-50 minutes. After this time, the dough must be folded. The dough is folded in 2 stages. At the first stage, several additions are made from the edges to the center.
In the second step, the dough is gently lifted and folded in half. Usually do 3-4 half additions.
In passing, I draw your attention to the fact that the dough for ciabatta DOES NOT knead! It's shaping up! Of course, in the process of addition, a small kneading of the dough occurs, but it is not necessary to specially knead it. After folding, cover the container with the dough again and leave warm for another 40-50 minutes. Repeat the addition process. Cover again and leave for another 40-50 minutes. Next, dust your worktop generously with flour and carefully lay out the dough. When laying out, do not help the dough with your hands so as not to knead, but simply turn the bowl over and wait - the dough will come out by itself. Stretch the pastry out into a rectangle.
When stretching, do not crush the dough! just grab it from below and stretch it. If I wrote it incomprehensibly, watch the video, as it is difficult to describe this process in words. Divide the stretched dough into pieces.
Depending on the size of the oven and your desire, you can divide it in half, you can, like me, into 4 parts, or you can into 6-8 parts. The final proofing of the dough is usually carried out on linen. The fabric, firstly, helps to form ciabattas, because if you simply proof on the table, the dough will spread a lot and the ciabattas will turn out to be unnecessarily flat. Secondly, the fabric allows you to create a characteristic pattern on the surface of the ciabatta, which, in my opinion, is also important. So, dust the fabric with flour, spread the dough, dividing it with fabric rollers, cover with the remaining fabric on top and leave it warm for about 40 minutes. Sometimes they say that the final proofing is carried out until doubling in volume.
You can check the degree of proofing of the dough as follows: gently press your finger on the dough that has come up: if the finger mark quickly disappears, then the dough did not last, if the dough falls when pressed, then it has stopped. With sufficient proofing, the fingerprint does not disappear, but does not fall off either. Transfer the risen dough very carefully to the baking paper, laying it up with the side that was directly on the fabric. Flatten very gently—stretch the ciabatta to your desired shape.
Ciabatta baked with steam. I'll try to explain. For baking, you will need two baking sheets - deep and shallow. Before baking, we put a deep baking sheet on the bottom of the oven, put the shallow one in the center position, turn on the oven at 220 ° C and wait until the oven is completely heated. We take out a shallow baking sheet (it should be hot), drag the paper with the dough onto it and put it in the oven. We sprinkle the walls of the oven with water, pour about half a glass of very hot water into a deep baking sheet and immediately close the oven door. As a result, steam is generated in the oven, which helps the dough to rise and form a crispy crust. After 10-12 minutes, check the presence of liquid in a deep pan. If there is no water left there or there is very little left, bake the ciabatta until fully cooked, if there is a lot of water, open the oven door, pull out a deep baking sheet, close the door and bake further. In the second stage of baking, steam makes the baking process very difficult, it is not needed. And a few more words about the baking temperature. On the roller, I baked ciabatta at a constant temperature of 220 ° C, because. my stove just can't get any higher heat. If you have the opportunity to heat it up to a hotter state, first set it to 240-250 ° C, and immediately after installing the baking sheet with the dough, reduce the heat to 220 ° C. This is done in order to compensate for the loss of heat when the oven is opened. Bake for about 25-30 minutes until the characteristic hollow sound when tapped. Transfer the baked ciabatta to a wire rack and let cool for 10-15 minutes.
Enjoy your meal!
How to cook ciabatta? Step by step recipe
Ciabatta can be served both as an addition to any other dish, and as a full-fledged dish with filling. There are many variations of this dish. Most often, Italian bread is combined with meat, cheeses, vegetables and sauces.
We suggest you try the fragrant ciabatta bun, following the recipe with the photo step by step. The recipe for a delicious and simple ciabatta will allow you to knead the dough at home to prepare the desired consistency and bake a bun with a spicy aroma and appetizing look.
Main Ingredients:
Step by step cooking recipe:
The finished dish is porous and soft!
Cooking ciabatta at home is not difficult, but you must follow all the rules exactly with the recipe. Below we will present a detailed recipe for Italian rye sourdough bread, which will allow you to cook this wonderful dish at home.
To bake rye bread, you need to use not only wheat, but also rye flour. The rest of the baking recipe is similar to the classic variation. In rye ciabatta, add the same amount of wheat and rye flour, salt, sugar, yeast, warm water, vegetable oil, your favorite seeds for taste, and follow the classic recipe, keeping the proportions.
To give the bun a spicy and rich taste, aromatic spices and other ingredients are used to add to the dough. Ciabatta can be cooked with olives, olives, herbs, onions or garlic, peppers or tomatoes, as well as salmon and even chicken.
There are also many recipes for making Italian bread without yeast - yeast-free ciabatta. Or you can safely take up cooking ciabatta with fresh yeast or pressed live yeast. The main nuance of cooking is the willingness to improvise with the filling, but full compliance with the given recipe.
Dark ciabatta made from rye flour can be cooked not only in the oven or bread machine, but also on the stone. A recipe with a photo or video can be found on the Internet and, following step-by-step instructions, prepare delicious bread the same as true Italians do.
A step-by-step recipe for Italian ciabatta with cheese at home will allow you to bake a real original dish. A recipe with photos and videos from Yulia Vysotskaya will help you knead the dough correctly in order to bake such popular bread at home. Preparing this variation of ciabatta with cheese is quick and easy! The recipe for Italian bread resembles the standard.
Main Ingredients:
Step by step cooking recipe:
If you want to change the ingredients, you can safely add not only cheese, but also spices, olives, seeds to the dough. By diversifying the usual recipes, you can surprise your guests with new variations of this simple dish!
Making traditional bread from Italy at home is not very difficult. Products for ciabatta can be easily found in the supermarket, and most have them at home. With the help of step-by-step instructions with photos, you can make homemade ciabatta bread. The recipe is simple and quick to prepare.
We will tell you how to bake ciabatta in a bread machine. The recipe for bread in a bread machine is very simple and will allow even novice cooks to please guests with fresh and warm bread, which is suitable for a hearty breakfast!
To prepare a flour product, use the instructions for ciabatta in a bread machine with a photo or step by step. For baking, you will need a standard set of ingredients from classic recipes, as well as garlic and spices for the filling.
Main Ingredients:
Panasonic ciabatta step by step recipe:
In order for Italian buns to succeed, you can use a bread machine of any company. For example, pastries can be baked in a Panasonic 2501 (Panasonic), Redmond, Mulineks or Kenwood bread machine. Recipes for ciabatta in a slow cooker with photos from Italian chefs will help you recreate the taste of a real Italian meal made from rye flour.
The Italian ciabatta recipe from Jamie Oliver, Yulia Vysotskaya, Richard Bertine and other chefs will give you the opportunity to replace your usual pizza, bun or cheese sandwiches with something completely new! The Ciabatta Sandwich Recipe allows you to use Italian bread for everyday breakfasts and dinners!
Enjoy your meal!