Richard Bertinet Ciabatta bread recipe | BBC Maestro

Join baker Richard Bertinet in the kitchen as he shows you how to make ciabatta bread.

In this video, he shares his recipe for the perfect ciabatta – crispy on the outside and airy on the inside – plus another variation of the recipe to make the famous fougasse (with olive and fennel seeds).

Timestamps:
00:56 - Forming the biga – flour, water and yeast
03:00 - How to make ciabatta dough
08:35 - How to make fougasse dough
12:13 - Cutting the ciabatta dough
14:43 - Cutting the fougasse dough
18:33 - Baking the fougasse
20:19 - Baking ciabatta

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