Whole Wheat Miche
Ingredients
- 340 g all purpose flour
- 160 g whole wheat flour
- 1/2 tsp instant yeast
- 375 g lukewarm water
- 10 g salt
Directions
Part 1: Prepare the Dough (10 minutes)
- In a large bowl, mix the flour and the yeast.
- In another bowl, dissolve the salt in the water.
- Slowly pour the wet ingredients in the dry ingredients while stirring with a spatula until the flour is moistened, about 3 minutes.
Part 2: Rest and Stretch (3 hours)
- Cover with a kitchen towel and leave it to rest for 30 minutes.
- Uncover the bowl and stretch and knead the dough.
- Do this a total of three times with 30 minutes of rest in between. Cover the bowl.
- After the last stretching of the dough, leave the dough to rest until it has doubled in volume (1 hour).
Part 3: Shape the Dough and Refrigerate (12 hours)
- Put the dough in a round bowl and shape it into a miche. Don't worry about deflating the dough, it will rise again in the fridge.
- Cover the bowl with the kitchen towel and put it in the fridge for at least 8 hours but less than 14 hours.
Part 4: Bake the Bread (2 hours)
- Place a dutch oven in the centre of the oven and preheat the oven to 500 F for 30 minutes.
- Right before cooking, take the dough out of the fridge and place it on parchment paper.
- Put the dough and the parchment paper into the heated dutch oven.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 450 F.
- Cover the dutch oven and bake it for 20 minutes.
- Remove the cover from the dutch oven and bake it for another 20 minutes until the centre of the bread is at least 200 F.
- Remove the bread from the dutch oven and let it rest.
- Wait at least 2 hours before slicing it.