How to Make Award-winning Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread

Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread.

Hey everyone, hope you're having an incredible day today. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, chocolate chunk sourdough bread. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate chunk sourdough bread using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread:

1. {Make ready of **Sourdough Pre-dough**.
2. {Take of bread flour or all purpose flour.
3. {Get of sourdough starter (wet kind).
4. {Make ready of water (1 Tbsp), might need 1 more Tbsp.
5. {Prepare of **Main Dough**.
6. {Get of bread flour.
7. {Make ready of water (265 ml).
8. {Get of salt.
9. {Prepare of active dry yeast (1 heaping 1/8 tsp).
10. {Take of unsweetened cocoa powder.
11. {Take of dark molasses (or honey).
12. {Make ready of **Mix-ins**.
13. {Get of semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks.

Steps to make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread:

1. Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl. Cover and let rest for 12 hours at room temperature..
2. After 12 hours, mix the pre-dough with the main dough ingredients in a large bowl until the dough comes together..
3. Remove to a floured working surface and knead for 15 minutes until smooth and elastic..
4. Fold in the chocolate in batches..
5. When all chocolate is folded in, knead for 1 more minute..
6. Return dough to bowl, cover and let rise 2 hours at room temperature..
7. After 2 hours, divide the dough into two equal portions. Shape into a round boules or longer oval loaf, or one each..
8. Dust with a little flour and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise another 3 hours..
9. Preheat oven to 230C/445F. While preheating, place a shallow tray at the bottom of the oven for creating steam. We'll be pouring in boiling water in right before baking to get the steam..
10. When ready to bake, prepare some boiling water to pour in the tray at the bottom of the oven..
11. Cut a slit down the center of each bread dough right before putting in oven to bake..
12. Pour in some boiling water into the tray, then immediately put in the bread. Bake at 230°C/445°F for 10 minutes then remove the steam tray. Lower heat to 190°C/375°F and bak for another 25 minutes. (Total 35 minutes). Remove and let cool on a rack..

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