Khorasan Wheat Marinara Recipes

SAUSAGE MEATBALLS MARINARA WITH KHORASAN WHEAT

Steps:

• Bring a medium saucepan filled two-thirds full with water to a boil. Add the wheat berries, and cook until the grains have plumped and are tender but still chewy, 55 minutes to 1 hour; strain. (The wheat berries can be cooked and refrigerated up to 2 days in advance.)
• Squeeze the sausage out of the casings, divide into 20 pieces and roll into Ping-Pong-ball-sized meatballs.
• Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the meatballs, and cook, undisturbed, until golden brown and crispy on the bottom, about 3 minutes. Flip and cook the other side until brown and crispy, about 3 minutes more. Remove the skillet from the heat, and transfer the meatballs to a plate. They should be about 3/4 of the way cooked. Wipe out the skillet.
• Put the remaining 1 tablespoon oil, garlic, 1/2 teaspoon salt and crushed red pepper in the skillet, and set over medium heat. Once the oil starts to shimmer, stir until the garlic is lightly golden, about 30 seconds. Add the tomato paste, and stir until the oil turns yellow, about 30 seconds. Add the tomatoes and their juices, the basil and 1/2 cup water, and bring to a boil. Lower the heat to medium-low, and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Add the meatballs, and continue to simmer until the sauce thickens and the meatballs are cooked through, 5 to 7 minutes more.
• Stir in the wheat berries, and transfer to a serving dish. Sprinkle with the Parmesan and basil, and serve hot.

KHORASAN WHEAT SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• See the photo gallery and video below the recipe for target dough consistency and expansion.
• Starter Build, Mixing, and Bulk Fermentation
• The night before or early in the morning, build your 100g sourdough starter. For a night-before feed, use 10g sourdough starter with 45g water and 45g flour. For an early morning feed, use 30g starter with 35g water and 35g flour. Allow the starter to ripen until it is at least double in size.
• Mix the dough ingredients together in a large bowl and cover.
• After a 20-30 minute rest, stretch and fold the dough with damp fingertips (see video below). Cover, let the dough rest another 20-30 minutes, and repeat the stretching and folding. Cover and rest 20-30 minutes again, and then do a third round of stretching and folding.
• Let the dough bulk ferment until it has almost doubled in size. At warm temps (high 70s) my dough needed about 5 hours. Colder dough will need more time.
• Shaping and Final Proof
• Flour your work surface and scrape your dough out of the bowl. Pre-shape it into a ball, invert your bowl to cover it, and let it rest about 20 minutes. I decided to pre-shape this dough to strengthen the gluten a bit more.
• Shape the dough into a boule, batard, or oblong loaf to suit your proofing basket and baking vessel.
• Place the dough in your proofing basket seam-side up, cover, and let the dough rise again for about 30 minutes at room temperature and then refrigerate it overnight (8-16 hours). You can also leave the dough at room temperature for longer (1-2 hours) and bake it without the refrigeration stage.
• Baking
• Preheat your oven and baking vessel at 500F for 30 minutes.
• Flip the dough out of the proofing basket and onto a sheet of parchment paper or onto the base of your hot baking vessel. Score the dough, then cover and return the vessel to the oven.
• If your baking vessel is a ceramic cloche, bake at:
• 500°F for 20 minutes, lid on
• 450°F for 7 minutes, lid on
• 450°F for 10 minutes, lid off
• If your baking vessel is cast iron, lower the oven temperature 5 minutes earlier and at that time, also place a baking sheet under the cast iron on the same shelf.
• When baking is complete, the bread should have an internal temperature of at least 205F and it should sound hollow when you knock on the bottom of the loaf.

KAMUT® (KHORASAN) SOURDOUGH BREAD

Steps:

• Mix the flour and water. Cover to autolyse for 1-2 hours.
• Add the starter and salt to the dough, pinching and kneading to incorporate the additions. Cover and let rest for 30-40 minutes.
• After the rest, begin a series of stretching and folding every 20-30 minutes. I did six stretch and folds for the all-Kamut and the 40%, and four for the 20% Kamut.
• Cover and let bulk ferment for a total of 6-12 hours from when you added the leaven. The time will depend on your room temperature. (My all-Kamut fermented 9.5 hours at 75 F. The 40% fermented 11 hours, 3 hours at 76 F and 8 hours at 64 F. The 20% fermented 10 hours at 72 F.)
• Scrape the dough onto a well floured surface. Dust the top of the dough with flour and stretch/press it into a rectangular shape. Fold it in thirds and then in half as per this video.
• Cover and let the dough rest for 15-20 minutes while you prep a basket/tea towel with all-purpose flour, rice flour, or bran flakes.
• Flip the dough and shape it into a boule or batard, depending on your baking vessel. Lay it in your basket seam side up for smooth scoring, or seam side down for a rustic look.
• Let the dough proof 60-90 minutes at room temperature, or 6-10 hours in the refrigerator. I proofed the whole grain loaf in the refrigerator for 7 hours, as the dough was very sticky and difficult to handle. The 40% and 20% doughs proofed at room temperature for 75 and 90 minutes, respectively.
• Thirty minutes before the end of the proofing stage, preheat your oven to 500 F with the baking vessel inside.
• Flour your hand and flip the dough out of the basket. Gently place it in the hot baking vessel. Score the top, cover, and bake:
• 500 F for 30 minutes lid on
• 450 F for 10 minutes lid off
• Or until the internal temperature is over 205 F.

NATURALLY LEAVENED KHORASAN SANDWICH BREAD

Steps:

• See the photo gallery and video below the recipe for target dough consistency and expansion.
• Starter Build
• The night before or early in the morning, build your 150g sourdough starter. For a night-before feed, use 20g sourdough starter with 65g water and 65g flour. For an early morning feed, use 50g starter with 50g water and 50g flour. Allow the starter to ripen until it is at least double in size.
• Mixing and Bulk Fermentation
• Scald the milk by warming it to 180°F. You may want to start with 400g milk because of evaporation.
• Add the honey, oil, and salt to the hot milk and let the mixture cool down to less than 115°F.
• Combine the flour, ripe sourdough starter, and liquid mixture in a large bowl. Mix thoroughly and cover.
• After a 20-30 minute rest, stretch and fold the dough with damp fingertips (see video below). Cover, let the dough rest another 20-30 minutes, and repeat the stretching and folding. Do the rest, and stretching and folding a third time.
• Let the dough bulk ferment until it has almost doubled in size. At warm ambient temps (high 70s) and the dough already warm from the milk, this took about 5 hours. Colder dough will need more time.
• Shaping and Final Proof
• Flour your work surface and scrape your dough out of the bowl.
• Shape the dough by stretching it into a rectangle, roll that up into a tube, flatten the tube a bit, and re-roll the dough into a tube again, making sure it is not quite as long as your pan.
• Place the dough in a lightly oiled loaf pan with the seam side down. I use a medium USA Pan, which is 9x5x2.75 inches.
• Cover and let the dough rise again for 1-3 hours at room temperature. My dough proofed for about 2 hours. The dough is ready to bake when it has doubled in size or its highest part crests over the lip of the pan. You can also refrigerate the dough overnight but first let it rise almost completely at room temperature, or plan for it to expand more the next morning at room temperature.
• Baking
• Put one of your oven racks on the second-from-the-bottom position and preheat your oven to 375F for about 15 minutes.
• Brush the top of the dough with milk and place it in the oven.
• Bake for 50-60 minutes, turning the pan halfway if the bread is browning unevenly. To firm up the bottom and sides of the loaf, take the bread out of the pan for the last 5-10 minutes of the bake.
• When baking is complete, the bread should have an internal temperature of about 200F.
• Brush the still-warm crust with butter or oil to keep it soft.
• Ideally, the bread should cool for about 2 hours before slicing.