Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Sourdough Challah

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sourdough challah. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sourdough Challah is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sourdough Challah is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sourdough challah using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sourdough Challah:

1. Make ready For the starter:
2. Prepare 2 tablespoons (35 grams/1.2 ounces) very active, fully fermented firm sourdough starter, refreshed 8 to 12 hours earlier
3. Prepare 1/3 cup (80 grams/2.8 ounces) warm water
4. Prepare About 1 cup (135 grams/4.8 ounces) bread flour
5. Prepare For final dough:
6. Make ready 1/4 cup (60 grams/2 ounces) warm water
7. Prepare 3 large eggs, plus 1 for glazing
8. Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons (8 grams/0.3 ounce) table salt
9. Make ready 1/4 cup (55 grams/1.9 ounces) vegetable oil
10. Get 3 tablespoons (65 grams/2.3 ounces) mild honey or a scant 1/3 cup (60 grams/2.1 ounces) granulated sugar
11. Take About 3 cups (400 grams/14 ounces) bread flour
12. Make ready Fully fermented sourdough starter

Steps to make Sourdough Challah:

1. In the Morning: mixing the sourdough starter: Knead starter into water until it is partially dissolved, then stir in the flour. Knead until it is smooth. Let the starter ferment until it has tripled in volume and is just starting to deflate. (It took me 3hr in room temperature at 30oC - 4 times its volume). If it is winter, you should do it in the evening and it takes more time to rise.
2. In a large bowl, add the oil first, then use the same cup for measuring the honey — the oil will coat the cup and let the honey just slip right outor sugar until the salt has dissolved and the mixture is fairly well combined. With your hands or a wooden spoon, mix in the bread flour all at once. When the mixture is a shaggy ball, scrape it out onto your work surface, add the starter, and knead until the dough is smooth, no more than 10 minutes. The dough should feel smooth and very firm..
3. If it is winter, soak your mixing bowl in hot water now to clean and warm it for fermenting the dough. Place the dough in it and cover with plastic wrap. Let the dough ferment for about 2 hours. It took me 2.5h in 28oC.
4. Line a big large baking tray. I made one big loaf. You can make 2 as desired. Divide the dough into 6 rolls. (170g for each).
5. Braid or shape them as desired, position them on the prepared sheet(s), and cover them well with plastic wrap. Let proof until tripled in size, about 5 hours. (It took me 2.5 hr in 28oC). When the loaf has not push back Testing the dough by gently pressed with your finger, it will have not push back but remain indented. Brush it with the egg glaze mixed with a table spoon of fresh milk. Sprinkle nuts for your choice (I use Chia seeds).
6. Preheat the oven to 180oC. Bake 40-45 minutes until golden brown. After the first 20 minutes of baking, switch the loaf from front to back so that they brown evenly; if the large loaf is browning too quickly, tent it with foil.
7. Remove it from the oven, and let cool on a rack.

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