Purple Sweet Potato Sourdough
Is this a figment of our delicious imagination? Nope! This Purple Sweet Potato Sourdough is 100% real and in our reach on this beautiful Tuesday. A slight twist to an everyday staple, we recommend that you give this soft beautiful bread a try! Stunning on the inside and out, added our Suncore Foods® Ebony Carrot & Purple Sweet Potato Powders to this loaf for its beyond mesmerizing purple color! Oh and did we mention that you can switch out the Purple Sweet Potato Powder for any of our other powders to make sourdough loaf of any color? Because you should definitely do that. Happy Baking!
Ingredients
Makes 2 Loaves
220g organic bread flour
220g organic wholemeal bread flour
365g water
8g Suncore Foods® Ebony Carrot Powder
15g Suncore Foods® Purple Sweet Potato Powder
98g active sourdough starter
11g salt
Directions
1. 7am — Prepare the starter; combine 20g starter, 40g flour mix, 40g water. Use it (98g) right at peak, about 4.5 to 5 hours.
2. 8:30am — In a stand mixer, combine flour, water, Suncore Foods® Ebony Carrot Powder, and Suncore Foods® Purple Sweet Potato Powder, mix on low for 3 mins and let rest for 3 hours.
3. 11:30am — Wet your hand, add starter to the dough and hand mixing until incorporated, about 5 mins. Cover and rest for 30 mins.
4. 12:00pm — Add salt and mans mixing with wet hand, about 5 minutes. Cover and rest for 1 hour.
5. 1:00pm — Mist the counter top with water and wet your hand. Transfer dough on the counter top, gently pull from centre out to form a rectangle shape. Pick up one edge and fold into the center. Pick up other edge and fold into the center over first section. Fold the top down half way. Fold the bottom up. Put dough in a large dish. Cover and rest for 45 mins.
6. 1:45pm — 1# Coil Fold. Lift the dough from the middle with both hands. The four fingers have to be below the dough and only the thumbs above the dough. Lift the dough and place it on the dish like a coil. Cover and rest for 45 mins.
7. 2:30pm — 2# Coil Fold. Repeat the same. Cover and rest for 45 mins.
8. 3:15pm — 3# Coil Fold. Repeat the same. Cover and rest for 45 mins.
9. 4:00pm — Shaping; lightly flour the counter top. Transfer dough on the counter, divide dough into 2. Shape each dough and transfer to a heavily flour banneton or a bowl. Let proof at room temperature for 20 minutes. Then refrigerate for 12 - 16 hours.
10. 6:00am (the next day) — Preheat oven and @challengerbreadware bread pan at 250c for 30 mins.
11. Take bread dough out from the fridge, invert onto a parchment paper, dust with flour and scoring. Transfer the dough with the parchment paper to the preheated pan.
12. Bake with cover on for 20 mins. Remove the cover and lower the temperature to 200c, continue bake for another 10 mins. Remove bread from the oven and let cool completely.