For the Starter Sponge:
- 1 cup Bread flour
- â…› tsp Active dry yeast
- ½ cup Waterwarm (between 105-110 °F)
For the Dough:
- 2 cups Bread flour
- 2 tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Active dry yeast
- ¾ cup Waterwarm (105-110 °F)
- ¼ cup Whole milk
Easy Homemade Ciabatta Bread
When someone first suggested that I bake my own bread, I thought they were nuts but this Easy Homemade Ciabatta Bread recipe is literally so simple that I would never think about buying store-bought ciabatta again. For a bachelor like myself, I was really proud of how my bread turned out and it was worth every effort. Simple ingredients and step by step instructions below!
To make Easy Homemade Ciabatta Bread, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Easy Homemade Ciabatta Bread
1 | Prepare sponge starter | 12h |
2 | Prepare dough | 6 |
In a stand mixer, combine the activated sponge starter with 2 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of salt, ½ teaspoon of active dry yeast, ¾ cup of warm water and ¼ cup of whole milk. Using a paddle attachment, mix on a low speed for 1 minute and scrape down all excess bits from the sides then increase the speed to medium-low and continue mixing for about 5 minutes until a sticky dough forms. | ||
3 | Knead | 10 |
4 | First rise | 1h |
5 | First fold | 2 |
Lightly grease a spatula with cooking spray and use it to fold the dough. Begin by gently pulling a ¼ section from the edge over the dough, over itself and into the middle. Rotate the bowl about 90 degrees and fold again. Continue doing this about 6 times with a total of 8 folds and 2 complete turns of the bowl. | ||
6 | Second rise | 45 |
7 | Second fold | 2 |
8 | Third rise | 45 |
9 | Preheat oven | |
Preheat the oven to 450 °F and place a baking stone on the middle oven rack. | ||
10 | Divide dough | 1 |
11 | Shape loaves | 5 |
12 | Final rise | 30 |
13 | Bake | 30 |
Gently poke the loaves into 10x6-inch rectangle shapes and dust off any excess flour and lightly spray with a bit of water mist. Do not soak. Bake in the preheated oven, on the baking stone, for 5 minutes, then spray again, twice, with water mist. Finally, bake for 25-30 minutes until golden brown and baked in the center. | ||
14 | Serve | |
Cool on a wire rack for about 30 minutes before slicing and serving. |
Recipe Reviews
Used coconut milk to make this ciabtta vegan.
Ciabatta is usually very hard to make i'm surprised you guys managed to skillfully tell us each step one by one WITH pictures which mustve taken a lot of time. It helped so much and I managed to perfect this recipe on the first try, really satisfied with the quality of this cooking site and how my food always turns out fantastic.
Italian bread is the best kind of bread but the store bought always turns solid in a day if you keep the bag open, i'm not sure what magic was added to this recipe but it's been soft for half a day now just sitting on my plate!
This was pretty good, took a long time to make but i certainly think it was worth it.
Going to make this alongside some pasta with salmon everything looks great.
Takes way too long to bake this and mine turned out hard as a rock 2 hours later after taking it out from the oven..what did I do wrong?
Made some cheesy garlic bread from this ciabatta, very amazing taste and texture would recommend for anyone having second thoughts.
Served it as a side dish with some ham cheese and cucumbers for an office party, huge crowd pleaser everyone loved the bread.
I thought all bread was technically vegetarian? Im confused.
Feels a little on the bland side, I don't taste much of a difference from this and the storebought.
Shaped mine into a heart and tossed in some chocolate chips to the dough, amazing.
Grate bread i made for a picnic.
Imagining how great this is going to taste just by the smell of it in my oven lol.
Crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. Exactly the kind of bread i was looking for :)
Great recipe!
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