Fougasse Sourdough
Combine until there are no lumps cover and place in a draft free warm area overnight for 12 14 hours.
Fougasse sourdough. There are many other similar types of bread as well. Fougasse is my favorite easy sourdough. The evening before prepare your levain for the fougasse.
The levain was kept in the fridge for a couple of days before i made this bread. Divide the mixture into two pieces and shape each into a fougasse. The loaves are typically large about the size of a half sheet pan.
In the morning your sourdough levain should have doubled in size and be full. Measure 100g of warm water 100g bread flour and 1 large tablespoon of your active mature sourdough starter. When you cut the dough just before baking you re increasing the surface area of the dough exposed to the heat of the oven imagine the cornicone1 of a pizza baked just a bit longer than usual.
It can be plain or studded with olives sun dried tomatoes and or herbs. Sourdough fougasse with homemade hummus aleppo pepper and cumin. Fugàssa in ligurian even a pizza style bread fugazza from argentina all are similar and derive from ancient roman bread called panis focacius a flatbread cooked in the.
Sourdough fougasse recipe makes 12 ingredients. I love the extra crust and the ease of pulling it apart. It begs to be torn ripped and then dunked.
The evening before prepare your levain for the fougasse. When eating you can snap off each section of the cut and stretched bread into an individual serving kind of like the og perforated cracker. The focus of fougasse is to maximize the crust.