Hey everyone,
I'm trying to find a recipe to make a food item from a restaurant in my area. They have a big sign on the wall that says they make their bread out of poolish and Biga. Researching that I'm confused...poolish and Biga are two different kinds of bread right? Specifically I'm trying to make the dish I've attached to this post.
Does anyone know what this might be? It's that poolish dough? Don't suppose anyone has a recipe?
5 Comments
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 17d
Poolish and biga are forms of preferment.
What that really means is that they have extended fermentation to allow the flavour to develop, and multiple starters to develop a specific flavour profile.
ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 17d
Ohh that's why I was having a hard time figuring it out. I kept trying to find recipes for Poolish dough and was finding people making a starter type thing. I make a lot of sourdough so I'm familiar with that process. It seems like poolish and biga are like starters but you make and use the whole thing per loaf? As opposed to sourdough where you repeatedly feed the starter over time as you use it?
So... That means this restaurant has a different recipe that includes poolish and biga preferment but it's inaccurate to say that they are making poolish or biga "dough"? In other words, there's a recipe beyond the preferment that they're using to make the light dough in my picture.
I wonder how I'd find that... Not sure the name of the dough or recipe I'd even look for then.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 17d
You’ll need to figure out the general style they’re using underneath the toppings and work in from there.
linuxguy@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 17d
Poolish and biga are very similar, could be either of those. Definitely some bacon and cheese or eggs in there too
ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 17d
Yeah they wrapped their dough around the filling. I was hoping to do the same but I need to figure out the dough first.