Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chocolate chunk sourdough bread. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Great recipe for Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread. I was never a fan of chocolatey bread until I made this. Using a sourdough and long fermentation time gives it great flavor.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chocolate chunk sourdough bread using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread:

1. Prepare Sourdough Pre-dough
2. Get 45 g bread flour or all purpose flour
3. Get 30 g sourdough starter (wet kind)
4. Get 15 g water (1 Tbsp), might need 1 more Tbsp
5. Make ready Main Dough
6. Prepare 425 g bread flour
7. Make ready 265 g water (265 ml)
8. Make ready 10 g salt
9. Take 1/2 g active dry yeast (1 heaping 1/8 tsp)
10. Make ready 30 g unsweetened cocoa powder
11. Make ready 75 g dark molasses (or honey)
12. Prepare Mix-ins
13. Prepare 100 g semi-sweet chocolate, cut into chunks

Rich with tart dried cherries and dark chocolate chips, and gently bitter from the coffee and cocoa. The conclusion of this chocolate sourdough bread recipe. This is a very different beast of a sourdough bread but it absolutely delicious and doesn't seem like anything else I've tried before. To a mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder and whisk to combine.

Instructions to make Chocolate Chunk Sourdough Bread:

1. Mix the sourdough pre-dough together in a small bowl. Cover and let rest for 12 hours at room temperature.
2. After 12 hours, mix the pre-dough with the main dough ingredients in a large bowl until the dough comes together.
3. Remove to a floured working surface and knead for 15 minutes until smooth and elastic.
4. Fold in the chocolate in batches.
5. When all chocolate is folded in, knead for 1 more minute.
6. Return dough to bowl, cover and let rise 2 hours at room temperature.
7. After 2 hours, divide the dough into two equal portions. Shape into a round boules or longer oval loaf, or one each.
8. Dust with a little flour and cover with a clean cloth. Let rise another 3 hours.
9. Preheat oven to 230C/445F. While preheating, place a shallow tray at the bottom of the oven for creating steam. We'll be pouring in boiling water in right before baking to get the steam.
10. When ready to bake, prepare some boiling water to pour in the tray at the bottom of the oven.
11. Cut a slit down the center of each bread dough right before putting in oven to bake.
12. Pour in some boiling water into the tray, then immediately put in the bread. Bake at 230°C/445°F for 10 minutes then remove the steam tray. Lower heat to 190°C/375°F and bak for another 25 minutes. (Total 35 minutes). Remove and let cool on a rack.

Use a cheese grater to grate the frozen butter into the flour mixture. Use a fork to cut the butter into the flour until it forms pea size crumbles. In a small bowl, whisk together the egg, sourdough discard, heavy cream and vanilla extract. This Chocolate Chocolate Chip Sourdough Banana Bread is studded with chocolate chips and with cocoa powder and is a great way to use sourdough starter. My first sourdough starter I ever had I started the summer before I went to college.

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