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Sweet Potato Pugliese Bread

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Sweet Potato Pugliese Bread

Hey everbody,

This is my first posting here on this forum.  I'd like to share this recipe that I have been working on for the past week or so...  Lemme know what you all think, and let me know how it works out for you.  Thanks.

Tim

Sweet Potato Pugliese Bread

This is an 85% hydration dough.  Crumb is very light, airy, and moist...

Makes two approx. 500g loaves.

Time Required: 5-6 hours with 30 minutes active work.

Ingredients:
400g all purpose unbleached flour (70%)
100g bread flour (17%)
60g whole wheat flour (10%)
20g rye flour (3%)
493 grams of water (85%)
14g kosher salt (2.5%)
1 tsp active dry yeast (1%)
125g mashed sweet potato (see instructions) (22%)

Tools required:
Large mixing bowl with cover, or plastic wrap
Wooden spoon
Kitchen Scale
Baking Stone
Peel
Tea towels, or linen baker’s couches
Small pot
Immersion blender

1. Peel sweet potato and cut into small chunks and measure out 125g.  Place sweet potato in small pot with just enough water to cover.  Bring water to boil and cook sweet potato until it can be mashed easily with a fork.

2. When sweet potato is cooked, remove from heat and separate sweet potato from cooking liquid.

3. Using a kitchen scale, add the sweet potato cooking liquid, and add room temperature water to make 493g of total liquid.

4. Add cooked sweet potato to the liquid and process with stick blender until there are no chunks of sweet potato.  Make sure the liquid mixture is less than 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

5. Using a kitchen scale, measure out dry ingredients (flours, salt, yeast), place in large bowl and mix well with wooden spoon, then add sweet potato liquid mixture, and mix into choppy dough, and let rest covered for about 20-30 minutes (autolyse)

6. After rest, mix dough again with wooden spoon until dough becomes smooth and wraps around wooden spoon.  Turn dough out onto heavily floured work surface, and turn dough using the fold and stretch method, returning dough to covered bowl between turns.  Repeat at 20 minute intervals 4 times.  At last turn, let dough rise in covered bowl undisturbed for another 90 minutes.

7. After final rise, turn dough out onto heavily floured work surface, gently stretch and fold dough into thirds with the last fold overlapping the first and divide into two loaves. (approx 630g). 

8. Form loaves by gently stretching them out and folding them in thirds with the last fold overlapping the first, and place seam side down on heavily floured tea towels or linen baker’s couch with a wall between the 2 loaves.  Be careful not to handle to dough to much to preserve the air pockets.  Be sure to flour the loaves well so they don’t stick to the tea towels or couche.  Cover with remaining couch or tea towels and let proof for about 45 minutes or until they are well expanded and barely spring back when touched.

9. Place baking stone on middle rack of oven and turn on to 500 degrees Fahrenheit and preheat for at least 45 minutes.

10. Turn loaves onto peel (seam side up) and place directly on to the baking stone.  Turn oven temperature down to 450 degrees Fahrenheit, and bake for 40-45 minutes turning them 180 degrees half way into baking time.  Loaves are done when they are a deep golden brown and the internal temperature is between 205F to 210F.

11. Let loaves cool completely before cutting and eating.

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Floydm

Sounds good.  How'd it turn out for you?  You happy with the results?

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The turned out great.  This is the 2nd time I have tried this recipe this week, just to see if it would turn out as the 1st time, which was great also...  This is the lightest bread that I have ever baked...

I just changed photo hosting sites, so hopefully the pictures show up...  Lemme know if you can see them...

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Floydm

Yes, I'm seeing them now.  Beautiful. 

Would you mind if I feature this up on the front page?  I've got two of David's posts up there right now.  David's stuff is always beautiful to look at, but it is fun to feature different people's recipes.

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breadbakingbass...

Sure, absolutely!  Thanks.

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RFMonaco

Can you taste the sweet potato or just dough? Thanks.

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breadbakingbass...

Maybe there's a very slight hint of sweet potato, but not really.  It does turn the dough very slightly orange.  I think it has more of an effect on the texture than the taste...

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Barkalounger

Sounds delicious.  I love sweet potatoes -- even the mushy stuff covered in mini marshmallows.  I think I'll try this recipe tomorrrow.  Thanks!

 

Tim

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breadbakingbass...

I especially love sweet potatoes with pineapple and those mini marshmallows...

Lemme know how yours turns out.  I'm very curious...

Also, this recipe does not include any preferments so it is a very clean and light tasting bread...  I'm sure you can convert this recipe to use a pre-ferment, but I like it as I have made it...

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Wisecarver (not verified)

...Awesome recipe.
I called my kids in here to look at those images and they gasped.
Told them they have no idea how delicious this would be. ;-)

I'm an Espresso addict and this recipe would be perfect with Espresso. Mmmm
  All the best,
   Mark

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breadbakingbass...

Thanks.  Lemme know when you try it out...

Tim

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Paddyscake

Those loaves are beautiful, crust and crumb! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more of your work!

Betty

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SylviaH

I love their rustic look and the flavor sounds wonderful.

Sylvia

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Barkalounger

My plan was to follow this recipe to the letter.  It didn't quite work out that way -- I overcooked the sweet potatoes, which meant there was more liquid, with meant more flour -- but I'm still very happy with the outcome.  It really is a light, flavorfull, good-looking bread.  Thanks for sharing it.

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breadbakingbass...

You are very welcome.  I'm glad it worked out for you reasonably well.  You should post pic of your version.

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Noel,

Your bread looks great!  Especially for a first try.  This bread gets easier the more often you make it.  Wet doughs are tough to handle, but once you get the hang of it, it's a lot of fun!  Work with wet hands, and work quickly!

Tim

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alliezk

I need to try this as soon as I go buy a kitchen scale. Hopefully sometime in the next week or so, it looks wonderful.

Have you made any changes on the recipe since this post?