Easy Sourdough for Beginners Master Recipe

This recipe is easy to work with, the dough is a dream, just follow the steps in the video and you’ll have a beautiful sourdough loaf to enjoy! Ingredients: 350g (1 ½ cups) water (lukewarm) 100g (½ cup) active sourdough starter 500g (3 ½ cups) bread flour (unbleached all-purpose flour can work too!) 10g (1 ½ tsp) salt Step 1 - Mix & Rest, Bulk Fermentation: Mix. Combine filtered, lukewarm water and starter in a medium bowl, whisk to dissolve. Add flour then sprinkle salt on top, mix until no dry flour remains. You can use a dough whisk or mix by hand. The dough will look shaggy, sticky, and kind of rough—this is all good. Use a dough scraper to clean the sides of the bowl and gather the dough to the middle. The Bulk Fermentation has begun. Let the dough rest. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, wet towel, a lid, or a shower cap and let the dough rest for 1 hour. This helps the flour hydrate and starts gluten development without the need for excessive kneading. Step 2 - Strengthen th