Strive making a loaf of this Italian white bread with our easy recipe. Get that attribute crisp crust and tender inside that's good for dipping in olive oil

• Preparation and cooking time
  • Prep:30 minutes
  • Prepare dinner:40 minutes
  • plus resting and proving
• Extra effort
• makes 2 loaves

• Freezable
• Vegan
• Vegetarian

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Substances

For the biga

• ¼ tsp dried lively yeast
• 165g plain flour

For the dough

• ½ tsp dried motion yeast
• 35ml heat milk
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 250g sturdy white bread flour

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Technique

• STEP 1

  The evening earlier than, make the biga (see tip, beneath). Stir yeast with 50ml heat water, stand for 10 minutes, then add one other 80ml heat water. Steadily add the flour in a stand mixer on its lowest setting. As soon as it’s a moist dough, switch to a well-oiled bowl, cowl and depart for 12 hours or in a single day at room temperature.

• STEP 2

  Within the morning, mix the yeast and milk and depart to face for 10 minutes. Tip right into a freestanding mixer fitted with a dough hook, add 160ml water, the biga and the olive oil. Then add the flour and 1 heaped tsp salt. Use the dough hook of a stand mixer to mix the dough. Knead for 10 minutes till clean and elastic. Don’t fear if it appears to be like very moist, it ought to to be a really moist dough! Pour right into a well-oiled bowl and canopy with cling movie. Depart to show for an hour and a half or till doubled in dimension.

• STEP 3

  As soon as rested, start to do a sequence of folds – elevate the dough from the sting, pull up, over, then launch it. Flip the bowl 90 levels and do the identical once more. Repeat so that you do a full flip of the bowl twice, or 8 folds. Relaxation for 30 minutes, then repeat the entire folding course of as soon as extra.

• STEP 4

  Warmth the oven to 220C/200C fan/gasoline mark 6. Tip the dough onto a very well-floured floor and reduce in half. The dough will really feel like a batter and unfold throughout the floor a bit, however don’t panic, simply work on a well-floured floor, utilizing the flour and a pastry scraper to assist transfer the dough. Form the dough into 2 massive squares (about 20cm x 20cm). Coping with every loaf at a time, fold the dough in from both sides, as if folding a booklet. Flip over, then decide up the roll and place every onto separate well-floured sheets of baking paper. The roll can be very tender, so oil or flour your arms nicely. Permit to relaxation for an additional 30 minutes, lined with a floured tea towel. Don’t fear if it spreads just a little.

• STEP 5

  Whereas the dough rests, warmth a baking sheet within the oven. As soon as the dough has rested, slide every of the loaves, together with the baking paper beneath them, onto the recent baking sheet. Bake for 35-40 minutes, till the crust is golden and the loaves sound hole when tapped on the bottom. Transfer to a wire rack and funky for an hour earlier than slicing and serving with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.