Pictorial - Making Bread in Food Processor

Processing a "wet dough" in food processor.

Start with a biga made the night before.

1 1/2 cups of flour

 1/2 teaspoon yeast 

 1 cup of water.

Mix well with wooden spoon, cover and leave on counter over night.

What the Biga looks like in the morning after about 10 hours.

Closeup of the Biga (after 10 hours)

Pouring the biga into the food processor. As you can see it is quite wet

Biga poured on top of 3 1/2 cups of flour in the processor

Closeup of Biga sitting on top of the flour in the processor

Flour, Biga and about 1 2/3 cup of water, pulsed

After resting for 20 minutes, salt is added and then the dough is mixed by just pulsing

The dough is quite wet

Dough coming together

Dough almost ready to knead by hand

Pouring dough onto a well floured board. Very, Very wet

Dough ready to be kneaded/shaped by hand

Fold sides up and over onto self. But knock off excess flour so that you don't end up with streaks of flour in your baked loaves

knead and shape into ball

After about 30 seconds of kneading the dough 

is ready to be placed in a oiled container and left to rise

Bread Recipe