Chia And Pumpkin Seed Sourdough Bread Recipes

CHIA AND PUMPKIN SEED SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• Mixing and Bulk Fermentation
• This dough starts out feeling over-hydrated because the chia seeds are not soaked. As the chia seeds absorb water from the dough, it will feel dryer. Unless your dough continues to feel very wet, you should use wet fingers when stretching and folding the dough at the 30- and 60-minute marks. Also, soak the pumpkin seeds that you laminate into the dough at the 90-minute mark. If you plan to make this recipe no-knead and mix in all the ingredients unsoaked at once, consider adding 30 grams additional water to the dough.
• Place the pumpkin seeds in a glass with some water, cover, and set aside to soak. If the seeds are salted, rinse them a few times.
• Mix the rest of the ingredients in a medium bowl, cover, and let the dough rest for 30 minutes.
• With wet fingertips, do two rounds of stretching and folding of the dough with a 30-minute rest in between.
• Drain the pumpkin seeds and clean off an 18"x18" stretch of countertop.
• Spread the dough thin on the counter and lay half the pumpkin seeds on half the dough, fold the dough over the seeds. Repeat the covering of half the dough with half the seeds, and folding until you have a square of dough about 6"x6". Return the dough to its bowl and cover.
• After the dough has rested 30 minutes, do one final round of stretching and folding.
• Let the dough finish bulk fermenting. It will not expand a great deal because of the large amount of seeds, but it will get webby inside. This could be 4-8 hours or longer.
• Final Proof
• With the extra seedy texture of this dough, lining up the gluten strands with a pre-shape and bench rest didn't seem very worthwhile, so I skipped those steps. However, if you find that your dough is a bit under-fermented when you scrape it out of the bowl, or if you're dividing a scaled-up dough into multiple loaves, feel free to do the pre-shape and bench rest.
• Scrape the dough out of your bowl onto a lightly floured countertop.
• Firmly de-gas the dough and shape it into a boule, batard, or oblong loaf (as I did).
• Place the shaped dough seam-side up in a floured banneton, cover, and let proof for several hours at room temperature or overnight in the refrigerator. My dough was at room temperature for about 40 minutes before I retarded it overnight.
• Baking
• Preheat your baking vessel for 30 minutes at 500F.
• When the oven and dough are ready, flip the dough onto parchment paper, and score it.
• Load the dough into your baking vessel, cover, and bake:
• 20 minutes at 500F covered
• 10 minutes at 450F covered
• 5-10 minutes at 450F uncovered
• The internal temperature of the baked bread should be 205F or higher.
• Let it cool on a rack at least an hour before slicing.
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SEEDED SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• Toast the sesame seeds in a dry skillet on medium-low heat for 2-3 minutes or until golden brown.
• Combine all three kinds of seeds in a small bowl and add the 100g of water, allowing the seeds to soak up the water (especially the chia seeds) during the dough's autolyse stage.
• Mix the flour and water and cover the dough to autolyse for about 1 hour.
• Knead and pinch the salt and leaven into the dough. Mark the time, and cover and let the dough rest for about 30 minutes.
• Begin a series of 4-6 stretch and folds 20-30 minutes apart, covering between each stretch and fold, and adding in the watery seed mixture at the second stretch and fold.
• Let ferment until the dough is puffy and bubbly. From the marked time the leaven was added, this bulk ferment can be as little as 3-4 hours if your room temperature is over 80F or as long as 10-11 hours if your room temperature is under 70F. My dough fermented 5.5 hours at 77F.
• Scrape your fermented dough out onto a floured countertop. Press out the gases while you creating a rectangular shape with the dough, then fold the dough in thirds on the long side, and then in half to make a tall square shape.
• Cover with plastic and let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
• Prep your counter with extra chia, sesame, and poppy seeds in a circle if you're making a boule and an oval if you're making a batard. Also, prep your banneton with flour as well.
• If you're using a tea towel to line a bowl or basket, you have the option of laying it flat on your counter, flouring it and then coating it in seeds.
• Shape your dough into a boule or batard by knitting the sides together, and then rolling and pressing the top into the middle several times until the dough is completely flipped over. OR Flip your dough over, and tuck in the sides while rotating it in a circle.
• Let the dough rest a few minutes to close the seams on the underside, then dampen the top of the loaf with a wet hand or by spraying it. Use your dough scraper to lift your boule/batard off the counter and flip it onto the layer of prepped seeds, rolling it a bit to capture as many as possible.
• Transfer the dough to your floured basket. Cover and proof until it has expanded and does not rebound as readily when poked. This could be as little as 45 minutes at room temperatures and as long as 10 hours in the refrigerator. My dough proofed for 2.75 hours in the refrigerator.
• 30 minutes before your proofing stage is over, preheat your oven to 500F (or the recommended temp for your baking vessel) with the baking vessel inside.
• Bake at 500F for 30 minutes, lid on
• Bake at 450F for 10 minutes, lid off
• Or until the internal temperature of the bread is about 205F.