Italian Ciabatta Bread Rolls
Soft and Lite Fresh Baked Italian White Bread
Posted By Savita
My family loves all kinds of fresh baked breads and I also make breads at home to get chance to make them healthy. You know, low sugar, no chemicals and above all fresh taste. Who does not love that?!
I usually make two batches of Ciabatta Bread Dinner Rolls at weekend and freeze'em..... then enjoy fresh bread WHOLE week.
Often, I bake four big rolls or sometimes, I make small eight rolls. This is totally per need, once you perfect the bread dough, you can make any shape or sizes desired.
In my home, everyone need reason to devour bread. Other than galloping it in dinner with some hot spicy curry, soup or pasta, we love trying various ways to eat fresh Ciabatta.
We turned it into garlic bread, even made ciabatta bread pizza, toasted and topped with cream cheese for breakfast, made croutons and what not!! Sweet fragrance of fresh baked bread rolls make you crave for these soft pillow ciabatta rolls even more.
For new bakers, Italian or Country-Style breads are best way to start bread baking at home. Few important things when making ciabatta rolls - first and foremost kneading, kneading for suggested time enhance the quality and texture of the bread and it is great exercise too ;) Second, is baking time and temperature. Bake ciabatta at specified temperature, for only 22 minutes first and then keep checking every one minute, if bread sounds hollow when tapped at the bottom, DO NOT over-bake it, that turns the bread dry.
Make ahead Ciabatta Rolls for Christmas dinner and I tell you, you will thank me for this excellent recipe.
Here are few of my other favorite ways to eat fresh Ciabatta!!
Ingredients
- Ciabatta Dough Starter
- 1 & 1/3 Cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Active Dry Yeast
- 1 Cup Water
- Ciabatta Bread Dough
- 2 & 1/4 Cup All-Purpose Flour (plus extra for dusting)
- 2 tsp Active Dry Yeast
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil ( plus extra for oiling the bowl)
- 1 & 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 4 tbsp Water
- 1/2 Cup Milk
Directions
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1. For Starter - Mix well - 1 and 1/3 cup all purpose flour, 1 tsp yeast, 1 cup warm water and 1/2 tsp sugar. Cover and leave at room temperature to ferment for at least 4 hours (or until dough doubles in size) -
2. For Dough - Stir the risen starter and let it rest for 5 minutes. In meantime, in a small bowl, add 4 tbsp warm water, 1/2 cup warm milk, 1 tsp sugar, 1 & 1/2 tsp salt, 2 tbsp oil and mix well. Sprinkle yeast over the rested starter. Add milk and oil mixture and 2 cups of all-purpose flour. Mix well. Transfer to a flour dusted board and knead adding 1 tbsp flour at a time until dough comes together. Knead the dough for 5 to 6 minutes. Transfer the dough to an oiled bowl, swirl the dough in bowl to apply oil all over. Cover and leave at warm place to rise for 2 hours (until it triples in size.) -
3. Shape the Dough - Punch the dough, transfer to a floured surface. Gently roll the dough to make a 12 inch rectangle. Divide it in four portions. -
4. Shape the Dough - Sprinkle a baking sheet with 2 tbsp of all-purpose or semolina flour. Shape each half into a small rectangle by folding it like letter (tucking the edges inside). Transfer each folded rectangle to baking sheet, folded ends facing down and place'em in 2 lines, 3-4 inch apart. -
5. Bake - Preheat oven at 425 Fahrenheit. Cover with kitchen towel and let rise at room temperature for 60 minutes (or until almost doubles in size) , then bake for 22-25 minutes or until tops are brown and bottom of rolls sound hollow when taped. -
6. Transfer to a cooling rack. Serve warm or let the bread cool completely, then wrap in plastic wrap and freeze for later. To defrost, I microwave frozen bread for 2 minutes at low power. Additional Notes:
Please Note - microwave on 1 pizza slice warm setting, not on high power or bread will burn or will get very hard
Savita's Recipe Notes:
Idle Time to bread rising and fermentation - 7 hrs. Start by mixing and leaving starter to ferment at night and eat fresh bread by lunch.© Chef De Home. Post content including video and photos are copyright protected.