Quick Ciabatta

Here is a quick Ciabatta bread. This came to me in a less than complete form, and I’ve pieced it together. The idiot, er, ah sender, really needed to not sent the recipe in UTF7-1/2 encoding…..

They did say this produced the most amazing ciabatta in 5 hours..

Preparation

1. Add all ingredients, in a stand mixer.
2. Mix roughly
3. Rest for 10 minutes.
4. Whip/Beat the batter with the mixer paddle, until it climbs out of the bowl bottom (~10-30 Minutes on medium)
5. Rest a well oiled container until tripled. (~2.5- 3 Hours)
6. Portion in to 3-4 loaves
7. Spray with oil and dust with flour.
8. Preheat oven to 500F
9. Proof for about 45 minutes.
10. Gently stretch and shape into ciabatta shape (~10″ oblong rectangle)
11. Flip upside down (gently) onto a heavily floured peel.
12. Bake at 500F until 200F in the center (~15-20 minutes), rotating / cycle at 10 minutes.