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Michelle Rose’s Authentic Italian Bread for Bread MachinesRecipe by my friend Michelle Rose and shared with her permission
This is a two-pound loaf.
Use Dough Course or bake in Bread Machine on Basic or White, (Course 1 on a Zojirushi Virtuoso Plus) and choose Dark Crust.
I baked this bread in a 12” Magic Mill Oval Challah Pan that I found on Amazon. You can bake in a loaf pan, into rolls, or anything of your choosing!
This is Michelle’s recipe with my notes in parentheses!
1 1/3 or 320-grams water (warm if your machine does not have the rest/preheat at the beginning)
2 tablespoons or 27 grams Light Tasting Olive Oil for baking (I used grapeseed oil.)
4 ¼ cups or 540 grams Caputo Chef 00 Flour Red bag flour or 550 grams King Arthur Bread Flour (I used 550 grams King Arthur Sir Lancelot High Gluten flour and had to add about 15 grams while dough was kneading as it was just a little bit sticky.)
1 tablespoon or 12 grams granulated sugar
2 teaspoons or 12 grams kosher salt
2 teaspoons or 8 grams Instant/Rapid Rise yeast or Bread Machine Yeast. (I used SAF Instant yeast.)
Put ingredients in bread pan according to your bread machine’s manufacturer instructions.
To bake in bread machine, Set for basic or white and DARK crust. Take out of bread machine immediately and cool on wire rack for 2-3 hours if you can wait that long!!!! (I couldn’t!!!)
To bake in oven, set for Dough course, take dough out, form into desired shape/pan and let rise for 40 minutes in slightly warmed oven. (Turn your oven on to “Proof setting” and set a timer for 40 minutes. If you do not have a proof setting, turn your oven on to bake at the lowest temp for ONLY ONE MINUTE and turn oven off. Do not heat oven for more than one minute!!! SET A TIMER!!!)
After rising, take bread out of the oven and heat oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 18-20 minutes until internal temp reaches 190-200 degrees. At 15 minutes in, check to make sure the top isn’t getting too brown. Loosely tent with foil if that happens.
Cool on wire rack 2-3 hours before slicing. (Freeze in plastic bread bags.)