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How to Make Ciabatta Bread at Home – Crispy, Airy, & Delicious
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Aug 19, 2025
Learn how to make authentic ciabatta bread at home with this simple step-by-step recipe! With its crispy golden crust and soft, airy interior, ciabatta is the perfect bread for sandwiches, dipping in olive oil, or enjoying fresh out of the oven. This recipe breaks down the process of making the starter (biga), mixing, folding, proofing, and baking so you can master ciabatta from scratch.
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Hello everybody! Today we make ciabatta bread. First thing we start with the yeast
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One tablespoon of yeast and we use this same water. I gotta use everything in the mix
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I put a little water. We got one cup, two thirds warm water and we leave this on the side
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Now we got the flour. The flour I put right over here. Three and a half a cup of flour
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one tablespoon of salt and we give a little mix, okay you know when the yeast
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go together with the salt it's why we mix first the salt and flour. Now it's
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a time of the yeast and we mix the yeast over here with the water like this and we
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put it right over here and the flour you see got a little bit more it's okay
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Okay, see we got the water we got to use and we mix really good
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Okay, and we start to mix now a little bit with the fork
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But after I got to use my hands, the mix is really really good
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Now the water, we put a little bit at a time because maybe you don't need all the water
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okay, it doesn't come too soft. Now, but if you need a little bit more water, it's no problem
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You can pick up more water. You see now it still a little too dry This is the ciabatta It not gonna be the same like when you make a pizza or you make a bread It got to be more soft Now we put the rest of the water left over
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Okay, now we put a little flour over here on the table. Okay
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Okay, and we take this and we put everything on the board over here
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And now it's time to mix this. But a little bit at a time, maybe some need a little bit more flour for my hands, we can use a little bit
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But now, like I said, this is not going to be really, really dry
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Now the dough over here, the ciabatta dough, it got to be a little soft like this
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You see this? It's the way it got to be. And we mix that
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The dough is done and what I gotta do I gotta put this bowl over here and we put a little
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drop of oil in the bottle. Okay, no stick
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Okay now this is done and look this is not gonna be hard
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They gotta be soft. We cover and this is gonna stay for one hour And now I got already this one it done It do the same like I do Over here it pour some towel or something on the top
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that you gotta keep warm. Now this is the one I was making before
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and see what it look like. Okay, now we use semolina flour and a bottle over here
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If we use a semolina flour and this paper over here, this we put right over here. Now what I do, I pick it up and I move a little bit like that
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Now we cut this like this, and a half. Okay, and we start with this one first. We put a little
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semolina and I push the ciabatta dough over here and the semolina. And now we
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pour it right over here. If you work a little bit like that. I got the oven
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and an already, 450 degree. Now this it got to be like this It not too sticky for your hands It okay It got to be like that
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Now the only thing you use is semolina flour on the barrel
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But you got to use regular flour on the top. You do like this
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It can make the crust on the top beautiful. No use, no semolina on the top. Only flour. It's bread flour
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Ok, now you gotta go in the oven. Look how beautiful this ciabatta
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Alright, and we wait now, we're gonna be ready. Ok, now it's 25 minutes and I wanna check since it's ready to go
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go. But I want to take out and put it right over here on top of the stove. Now we check on the
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barlock, the crust. See how beautiful? It's ready. It's ready to go. 25 minutes, done
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Look how beautiful, look at this. Really, really nice, the ciabatta. I got a beautiful oil over here
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You dip the oil. Delicious. Really good, look at that
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Make one ciabatta and you let me know they come out really, really good
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