Orange and Dark Chocolate Sourdough

Ingredients

  • 500g Strong Canadian great white flour
  • 100g Sourdough starter
  • 8g Salt
  • 50g Caster sugar
  • 10g Freshly squeezed orange juice
  • Zest of two oranges
  • 290g Water
  • 100g Dark chocolate (70%), roughly chopped

Method

Combine the flour, caster sugar, salt and orange zest into a bowl and with a hand turn over to mix the dry ingredients together.

  • 1. In a separate bowl combine the sourdough starter and orange juice with the water and whisk to mix together.
  • 2. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix together to form a dough, leave covered for 30 minutes.
  • 3. Next turn out the dough onto a wet surface and stretch and fold the dough to create the structure needed within the dough. About ten folds should be enough. Return to the bowl, cover and leave for two hours.
  • 4. Repeat step four. Return to the bowl, cover and leave for a further two hours.
  • 5. Repeat step four one last time. Return to the bowl, cover and leave for a further hour.
  • 6. Turn out the dough onto a floured surface and fold the dough to form a tight ball. Leave on the surface covered for 30 minutes.
  • 7. Stretch out the dough to a rectangular shape, add the chocolate and then fold and shape to fit the banneton/proving basket in use. Place gently into the basket and leave in the fridge overnight.
  • 8. In the morning heat your oven to the usual temperature that you use for sourdough, once heated, remove the dough from the fridge, turnout onto a baking tray, score and place in the oven to cook. Timing will depend on your cooker, I work on a total cooking time of 40 minutes.*

* For me I work with an oven at 240degC and put the dough directly on to a pizza stone. After 15 minutes, I lower the oven temperature to 190degC. If you can add steam to the oven, that will help with the rise.

Credit: Thank you to David Stubley @dave_bakes_bread for submitting this recipe

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