Sourdough Bran Bread
Description
Homemade pastries for tea. Making tasty and healthy sourdough bread with bran is quite simple if you follow the step-by-step recipe. After such bread, you won't want to eat bread from an ordinary store. It can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for kneading the dough. By this time, the sponge should be ready; prepare it 10–12 hours before kneading the dough.
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Step 2
To prepare the poolish over 10–12 hours (preferably starting in the evening), have ready 20 grams of wheat starter, 110 grams of water, and 110 grams of wheat flour.
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Step 3
Mix water, wheat starter, and flour. Cover with plastic wrap and leave at room temperature to ferment for 10–12 hours.
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Step 4
The sponge should look active by the time you knead the dough; you will need 200 grams of it.
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Step 5
Pour 130 grams of room-temperature water into the dough mixing bowl, add 200 grams of starter, and mix.
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Step 6
Pour in the bran, add honey, salt, and vegetable oil.
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Step 7
Pour all the flour into a bowl and mix.
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Step 8
After mixing all the ingredients, cover with plastic wrap and let rest for autolyse for 40–60 minutes.
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Step 9
After autolysis, knead the dough by hand until smooth and shape into a ball.
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Step 10
Grease a bowl with vegetable oil. Leave the dough to ferment at room temperature for 4 hours, covering the top with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel.
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Step 11
After 2 hours of fermentation, punch down the dough.
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Step 12
After 4 hours, transfer the dough to a work surface.
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Step 13
Roll out the dough into a sheet.
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Step 14
Roll the dough into a log, pinching after each turn.
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Step 15
Fold in the sides and pinch the dough.
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Step 16
Pinch the seam closed, tuck under, place on a baking sheet seam-side down, cover with plastic wrap and a towel to prevent drying out. Let rise at room temperature for 2 hours.
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Step 17
Lightly dust the bread with flour and score it.
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Step 18
Preheat the oven to 250°C on upper and lower heat, bake for 15 minutes at 250°C, then reduce the temperature to 200°C and bake for another 15 minutes until done. Cool the bread on a wire rack.
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Step 19
Once the bread has cooled, it can be served. It is wonderfully fragrant, with a crisp crust, and very delicious.