A delicious sourdough fresh carrot juice crusty, moist with a tender crumb bread perfect for sandwiches. This is super easy to make and has whole wheat flour, no oil or eggs. Just basic ingredients of water flour & carrot juice, naturally colored bread.
Ingredients
340 Grams All Purpose Flour
100 Grams Whole Wheat Flour
300- 305 Grams Carrot Juice
10 Grams Salt
100 Grams Active Sourdough Starter
Method
For The Active Sourdough Starter Feeding method see here.
To Make the Carrot JuiceTake 500 grams carrots, peel and chop them into small pieces. Place this in a blender jar with 300Ml water. Blend at low speed for 30 seconds.
Slowly increase to high speed until the mixture is completely pulverized into a liquid. Pour the liquid into a nut milk bag or just using the thinnest cloth you have or a sieve. Strain into a glass. Measure and use the amount required for the dough.
To Make The Main Dough After the starter has reached it's peak, begin mixing all of the wet ingredients into a mixing bowl, adding the flour last. Mix water, milk, honey, olive oil, starter, and salt together until well combined. Then, add the flour and whole wheat flour. Mix until a shaggy dough is formed. Cover up the bowl of dough with a kitchen towel and let it rest for an hour.
Stretch & Folds
- Perform the first set of stretch and folds. Stretch an edge of the dough up into the air and fold it over the top of the dough. Turn the bowl and grab another edge of the dough and do the same. Repeat this process, stretching and folding until you feel the dough tighten and resist stretching( about 8 turns). Then cover the dough and let it rest for 30 more minutes.
- Perform two more sets of stretch and folds with 30 minutes of rest in between the sets.
Shaping The Bread After the last set of stretch and folds, flip the dough over in the mixing bowl so that the smooth side is facing up. Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and let it rise at room temperature for 4-8 hours (if you are in a warm country like India it make take between 2 -3 hours depending on temperature of the kitchen). This step is commonly called the first rise, or bulk fermentation.
Once the dough has doubled in size, place the dough, sticky-side-up, on a lightly floured counter. Stretch the dough out into a rectangle, Fold the third of the dough closest to you inward, and then stretch the dough out to the sides. Fold the right, and then left sides in toward the center. Fold the top of the dough inward, and then wrap the bottom part of the dough over it all. If you want, you can make pre-shape and set aside for 15 minutes and then make a final shape. Work this into a round shape, and place seam side up in a proofing basket lined well with flour.
Cold Proof After transferring to Banneton, or well lined bowl or basket. Let rise the dough overnight in the refrigerator. You can keep this cold retard up to 18 to 24 hours.
Score and Bake
When you are ready to bake preheat oven to 220°C and place a metal cake pan or any metal pan onto the bottom rack of your oven. You will put boiling water into this hot pan later to add steam to the oven.
Transfer the bread to a lined pan of Sourdough French Bread into the middle rack of the oven and pour a cup of boiling water into the metal pan on the bottom rack. Steam will fill the oven and allow the bread to expand as it bakes, giving it a better crust. Let the bread bake for 20 minutes, then remove the pan of water. Rotate the bread pan and turn the heat down to 200°C and bake for an additional 25- 30 minutes, or until the bread has a brown color on the crust that you like. Let the bread cool on a wire rack for 20-30 minutes before slicing into the bread. A perfectly baked Sourdough Carrot Bread.
Serve slices with olive oil or butter, enjoy!
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