Recipe: Tasty Bread bun/ Brotchen

Bread bun/ Brotchen.

You can cook Bread bun/ Brotchen using 5 ingredients and 22 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Bread bun/ Brotchen

1. You need 100 gr of sourdough starter.
2. You need 275-300 ml of water.
3. It’s 500 gr of bread flour/typ550.
4. You need 50 ml of olive oil.
5. You need 10 gr of salt.

Bread bun/ Brotchen instructions

1. Mix the sourdough starter with luke warm water. Stir it until it is dissolved..
2. Add the bread flour. Mix it well..
3. Let it autolyse in the bowl for 30 minutes. Cover the bowl with dry towel..
4. Sprinkle the salt and olive oil. Mix it well..
5. Bulk fermentation for 2 hours. Stretch and fold the dough once in each 30 minutes during the fermentation..
6. Cover the bowl with wet towel and place it in the fridge overnight for 2nd cold fermentation in order to build aroma..
7. The next day, take out the dough. On top counter, sprinkle little flour. Divide the dough into 6 equal pieces..
8. Shape the dough into oval or round..
9. Place the dough on the baking paper on top of baking tray..
10. Cover the dough with wet towel..
11. Proof the dough for another 60 minutes..
12. While that, heat the oven for 220°C..
13. Place a tin of 100 ml water at the bottom of oven, to give enough moisturizer to the bread..
14. Poke the dough to check whether it is ready to be baked. If it is spring back slowly, the dough is ready to be baked..
15. Score the bread deeply with razor/sharp knife..
16. Place the baking tray in oven..
17. Bake it 10-15 minutes with the water bath..
18. After 15 minutes, remove out the water bath. Bake it for another 15-20 minutes..
19. Switch off the oven, leave the bread in the oven for 5 minutes..
20. Remove it out of oven, cool it down on a rack..
21. Slice it after 1 hour..
22. Enjoy the bread with any fillings..