How To Make Easy Ciabatta Bread

This is how to make a beautiful, fluffy and crunchy ciabatta bread.

Sometimes the way bread recipes are written, with lots of technical words, can be off-putting for bread beginners, making it difficult for them to start a bread making journey. With this ciabatta recipe, I have tried to keep the idea of bread making as simple as possible by sharing basic and yet essential little techniques that will improve your bread making skills. The only challenge of this recipe is the hydration! It’s a wet dough!

Here are a few main tips and tricks for working with a high hydration dough:

1 – If you are a beginner, use a large bowl to make the dough and knead the dough inside the bowl. There’s no need to put it on the work surface and make a mess. You’ll stress out and start adding lots of flour because it will be too hard to handle. When kneading, use one hand to hold the bowl and the other to knead the dough, keeping the hand holding the bowl always clean.

2 – Strengthen the gluten of the dough by giving the dough a few folds during the fermentation. The method I’m using in the video is called “coil fold technique” and is a type of strengthening action used to help develop gluten in the dough during the fermentation stage. By using this method you’ll notice that the dough will become more and more easy to handle without adding any extra flour!

And remember, baking bread is a truly satisfying process and there’s nothing like the feeling of creating your own fresh loaf. So make sure you take things slow and enjoy the process!

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If you never made chabata before, then you should try this recipe. Making bread, it’s pretty simple, but one of the most difficult challenges is handling wet dough like this one for chabata. But once you have mixed all of the ingredients together in a large bowl, you can give the dough a few folds during the fermentation period. And you’ll notice that the dough it will develop a stronger gluten structure and it will become more and more easy to handle. When it comes to shape the dough into a chabata, gently turn the bowl upside down to release the dough. And at this stage, try not to endle the dough too much as you want to keep as much air in as possible for the perfect light texture. Making baking bread is a truly satisfying process and there is nothing like the feeling of creating your own fresh bread. So, make sure you take things slowly and enjoy the process.