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🥗Healthier: whole wheat dough

💰Cheaper: white bread dough

Whole wheat dough adds fiber and nutrients.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: vegetable oil

Avocado oil provides healthy fats.

In a medium bowl, add 560 grams of red flour and 140 grams of whole grain flour.

Add 14 grams of salt and mix it with your hands.

Add 140 grams of sourdough starter fed and grown to its peak and 546 grams of water.

Mix the dough until all of the flour is hydrated.

Let the dough rest covered for 1 hour.

Perform three sets of stretch and folds spaced out by 30 minutes.

After the stretch and folds, move the dough to a proofing container and mark where the top of the dough is and where your target rise is.

Divide the dough into two equally sized pieces.

Using a scraper, pre-shape both doughs into balls and let them rest for 20 minutes.

Shape both loaves into batards or boules and place them into banneton baskets.

Put the bannetons in the fridge for at least 8 hours or up to 48 hours without covering them.

Preheat the oven to 230 degrees Celsius (450 degrees Fahrenheit) with a Dutch oven inside.

Grab a loaf from the fridge and dust the bottom with rice flour to help it slide off the peel.

Flip the loaf onto the peel and score it.

Add the loaf to the Dutch oven and bake for 20 minutes.

Remove the first loaf from the Dutch oven and set it aside.

Add the second loaf to the Dutch oven and cover it with the lid, baking for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes, remove the lid and finish baking the second loaf for another 10 minutes.

Let both loaves come to room temperature and then freeze each loaf in a Ziploc bag for up to 3 months.

To bake the frozen loaf, preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius (300 degrees Fahrenheit).

Add the frozen bread and let it heat for 10 minutes to thaw slightly.

Increase the oven temperature to 230 degrees Celsius (450 degrees Fahrenheit) and bake for about 20 minutes until browned to your liking.

For the thawed loaf, preheat the oven to 230 degrees Celsius (450 degrees Fahrenheit) and bake until browned to your liking, also for about 20 minutes.

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