A rustic sourdough enriched with deeply caramelized onions and finished with smoked salt.
Folding caramelized onions into the dough rather than just topping the loaf means their sugars keep browning inside the crumb as it bakes, so you get pockets of deep, almost jammy sweetness instead of a thin savory layer on top. Smoked salt at the finish is doing the same job flaky sea salt does on a chocolate chip cookie — a sharp, mineral contrast against all that sweetness.
1 loaf
Ingredients:
- Caramelized onions (see sub-recipe)
- Sourdough Bread (see sub-recipe)
- as needed – Smoked sea salt (for topping)
Speciality Items:
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🍷Sommelier's Recommendation
Acid slices through sweetness and smoke; aromatics enhance caramelized onion.
Elegant, mineral-driven, superb with smoky-sweet notes.
Steps:
- Cool and slice; finish with smoked salt.
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Caramelized Onions
Ingredients:
- 3 large – Yellow onions (thinly sliced)
- 30 g – Butter
- 10 g – Olive oil
Steps:
- In a saute pan, cook onions low and slow 45 minutes until deeply golden.
Sourdough Bread
Ingredients:
- 450 g – Bread flour
- 330 g – Water
- 100 g – Levain
- 10 g – Salt
- all – Caramelized onions
Steps:
- Mix bread flour, water, and levain. Let sit (autolyse) for 30 min.
- Add salt and fold in onions.
- Bulk ferment 3 hours with folds every hour.
- Shape, proof overnight, bake in Dutch oven 475°F.
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