My friend Lena, who lives in New York, told me about the sourdough Miche bread that she bought at her local bakery. She noted how delicious it was, and was curious if it’s easy enough to bake it at home.
I’ve never heard about this type bread before, but of course it was a new challenge for me and I was very excited to take it on.
I found the recipe and baked it the following day.
Bread came out so flavorful, rich, earthy and soft.
Here is one tip: for the best flavor use freshly milled whole wheat flour or stoneground whole grain whole wheat flour.
Ingredients
Whole wheat sourdough starter
- 10g ripe sourdough starter
- 80g water
- 80g whole wheat whole grain flour
Main dough
- 150g whole wheat sourdough starter
- 70g rye flour
- 220g all purpose flour
- 160g whole wheat whole grain flour
- 9g salt
- 330g water (+20g more if needed)
Directions
Day 1
Starter
- 10 pm add starter to the water and whisk together, add flour, mix well, cover loosely, let it sit at room temperature 74-78F until in about 8-10 hours starter reaches its peak (doubles or triples in volume). You can learn how to make starter from scratch here.
Day 2
Main dough
- 8 am mix all water and flour (save 20g water for later, if needed), let autolyse for 1 hour
- 9 am Add starter (150g) and salt, knead by hand or in mixer until we’ll dissolved. Cover, let rest for 15 min.
- 9.15 am stretch and fold, cover, let rest 30 min
- 9.45 am coil fold, cover, let ferment 1 hour.
- 10.45 am am coil fold cover, let ferment 1 hour
- 11.45 am cover, let ferment 1 hour.
- 12.45 pm dough should increase in volume significantly. (About 50% )
Note: if dough didn’t puffy enough, perform another fold and let it ferment for 30 more min.
Shaping
- 12.45 pm generously sprinkle counter top with whole wheat flour.
- Dump the dough on the counter.
- Shape as desired. I prefer a round shaped loaf. Pull all edges to the center, flip it over, try to round the dough with your hands.
- Transfer the shaped loaf into proofing basket.
- Let it proof for 1 hour and 30 min. The dough should get bigger.
- Meanwhile preheat your oven to 500 F, place a cast iron pan with the lid or a baking stone inside for 45 minutes – 1 hour.
- 2.15 pm flip the dough over on a parchment paper. You can score the Miche or bake it scoreless.
- Transfer the dough on to the hot cast iron pan, cover with the lid (to create steam for a beautiful and crusty crumb).
- Bake at 500F for 10 minutes with the lid on.
- Remove the lid, lower the temperature to 450F and bake for 25 more minutes.
Enjoy!
Natashenka, Thank you my love! You are an amazing and excellent baker at the same time a great person. I’ve been learning so much from you, and so blessed to always have you by my side ♥️ I will do this bread as soon as i can, and you will see my progress. Really appreciate it. THANK YOU!!! Love You 💕
Natashenka, ! You are an amazing and excellent baker at the same time a great person. I’ve been learning so much from you, and so blessed to always have you by my side ♥️ I will do this bread as soon as i can, and you will see my progress. Really appreciate it. THANK YOU MY DEAR !!! Love You 💕
Лена, you are my favorite!
Thank you do much for the idea 🙏🙏🙏
Hope you will like it 🙏
Good day Natalya
Instead of baking at 2:15, May the shaped dough be placed in the fridge to be baked the next morning ? If yes, what would the maximum hours of cold proofing be? Thanks
Hi!
Shape it place into a proofing basket, let stay 30 min at room temperature, then retard for 8-20 hours
Natalya, you are THE BEST!! Thanks so much. No reply needed.
Hi dear Natalya,could you please tell the last ratio of feeding the starter to be ripe enough for your recipes? Thank you in advance.
Hi!
Please follow the regular ratio for your starter.
Dear Natalya, thanks for the recipe. I baked it and it’s very tasty and aromatic but to compare with your other recipes which I’ve tried so far, the dough was rather sticky and detached from the Pyrex hardly, even at the coil fold stage. Although at the bulk,f raised significantly but it hadn’t good oven spring. Why is that please?
Hello Natasha
I am so impressed by all you bakings. Thank you
I have a question regardant this recipe The Harpon Miche –
So what would be the différence between a whole wheat bread and a Miche ???
Sorry
I meant The Sourdgough Miche and not the Harpoon
Thank you again