Recipe: sourdough bread
Have you ever tasted a sourdough bread? Then you know that this bread has a unique flavour. You can buy sourdough bread at the bakery, but you can also just make it yourself. This way, your bread tastes even better and it is also a lot cheaper. Oh and your house smells great afterwards too!
Kitchenware
- oven
- baking sheet or baking mat,,this baking mat comes highly recommended
- come
Ingredients
- 500 gr sourdough (When you have just made the sourdough starter, the dough doesn't rise very well yet and you can add 10-20 g yeast to make the bread fluffier. When your sourdough is a few weeks old, you won't need yeast anymore).
- 1 el salt
- 2 el olive oil
- 250 gr flower (organic)
- 250 gr spelt flour (organic)
- 200 ml water (If the sourdough is older, you might need a little less water, about 175 ml. You will notice this when the dough becomes too sticky).
Instructions
- Knead all ingredients well in a bowl or food processor.
- Form a loaf and place on a baking tray with a baking mat/baking paper. Or: place in a rising basket or bowl with tea towel.
- Put a tea towel over it and leave in a warm place just until the volume increases about 2x. This takes about 4 to 6 hours.
- Bake in the oven at 200°C for about 45-50 minutes. If you have a steam oven, adding a little steam will make the bread extra tasty. You can also put a small (heat-resistant) bowl of water in the oven. The bread is ready when it sounds hollow when you tap on it.
Notes
- We like this recipe best, but you can feel free to use other flour or flours. As long as it totals 500 grams. If you use wholemeal flour, you will probably need (up to 100 ml) more water.
- You can knead the bread by hand or with a food processor. Should the dough be sticky, it helps to wet your hands before kneading.
- Before starting this recipe, remember to take off about 100 grams of the sourdough starter and put it in a glass jar so you can keep it in the fridge for the next time you bake bread. How to keep this jar of sourdough starter alive and how to reactivate and multiply it again so that you have another 500 grams of sourdough to bake sourdough bread from with this recipe, you can read in this article.