Biga bread recipe

This Italian biga recipe is the starter used in many Italian breads. Just flour, yeast, water, and time--and you have an authentic loaf.

90% biga loaf, as I learned from italian maestro Ezio Marinato.This means when you mix the dough, 90% of the flour is already prefermented. As a result we have a very digestive bread, also a lot of aroma and character.Method:Biga: 900 grams of bread flour + 405 ml water + 3 grams of instant yeast or 90 gr sourdough. Disolve the yeast in water. Add flour. Mix 1 minute at slow speed, just until you get wet flour threads. We don't want to develope gluten in this stage.

Baking bread with lot of taste requires time. Baking with Biga is a baking technique with long fermetation time, over 12 hours.

Baking bread with lot of taste requires time. Baking with Biga is a baking technique with long fermetation time, over 12 hours.

Italian Biga is a really easy starter dough for so many Italian bread recipes and so easy to make. Not at all like the fussy sour dough starters, this recipe is really easy to make and makes the best bread.

This ciabatta formula really pushes the hydration limit. The dough is super wet, resulting in a super airy dough, and because of the biga that ferments for 12 hours, the flavor is pretty amazing. This recipe produces a lot of dough, enough for two 1 1/2 pound ciabattas and eight ciabattini or four stirato (ciabatta baguettes). I'd love to show you photos of the ciabattini, but they were quickly consumed by my cutie pie grandsons before I could take photos. Priorities people. Those boys own…

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Delicious Homemade Ciabatta Bread. It's not nearly as hard as you probably think it is. Why not try baking some this weekend?!

I've been experimenting with BIGA bread, and this guide has been so helpful in teaching me more about BIGA and how to make it. I think I'm going to try baking some BIGA bread like ciabatta and maybe even some BIGA rolls. If you want to learn how to make really delicious Italian bread, you need to read this guide.