You can eat it during dinner, for breakfast with some Nutella or some honey on top of it (or like my grandma used to do, with butter and sugar).
Everybody will love it and they will ask you for the recipe.
Let's start!
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups of all purpose flour
2 cups of high gluten flour
2 tsp of active dry yest
2 tsp of sugar
1 tsp fine sea salt
2 cups of warm water (just open the water of your sink on hot, let it go for a few minutes and it will be good)
PREPARATION:
In a little bowl combine the warm water with the active dry yeast and the sugar and stir until all the ingredients are combined perfectly and set aside.
Take a medium/big bowl and put the flours with the salt and stir it until all the ingredients are mixed together. Add the water mixture and help your self with a fork to mix it together. When it's getting to hard to work with the fork go ahead and use your (clean and dried) hands.
Work that dough for at least 10 minutes, go for it, don't be afraid to get dirty! Have your kids help you, they will love it! When the dough result nice, sticky and even (you don't want to have any kind of hard-dry "ball" in the middle! That means that you didn't mix all the ingredients evenly! But don't feel bad, it happens to the best of us! Keep going!) put a damp (with warm water) hand towl on top of your bowl and set it in a warm place (you can put it inside your oven with the light on, inside the dryer right after is done drying your clothes and it's still nice and warm, on the window when the sun is hitting it, on top of your aquarium or snake box, etc. You know your house!!) and let it sit for at least 1 hour but not more than 2.
After this time, your dough should be at least twice the size it was before, yous should see some bubbles in it and it should smell almost like pizza dough. You can pinch a little piece off and taste it! My kids love this, just don't eat to much or it will give you a belly ache!!
Take your bread or pizza pan, cover it with parchment paper (you can either get the expensive one or the one from the dollar store, they are both fine!!) and make some flour rain on top of it! Get your hands dirty again and take that sticky dough, divided in 2 or 3 loafs and set it on your pan but make sure they are at least 5 inches apart. Now let it sit for another 30 minutes in a warm place but don't cover it. While you wait, turn on your oven at 350 F and put a oven resistant pan full of water on the bottom rack of your oven.
Ok! Let's go back to work! Sprinkle some flour on top of your bread, that by now should be nice and puffy, put the pan in the oven for 15-25 minutes.
DONE! YOUR CIABATTA BREAD IS READY! Let it cool down for a little bit and enjoy it!!!
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