Sourdough Bread Recipe No Yeast Video

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A soft sourdough sandwich bread with a tender texture and amazing flavor without using any store-bought yeast, just the wonderful power of wild leavening. This sourdough sandwich bread recipe is made with flour, water, salt, butter, and active sourdough starter and is so good you should double it for two loaves.

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Sourdough bread-making is intimidating if you're used to relying on store-bought yeast. We'll have you baking sourdough bread like a boss in no time with these tips.

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The first benefit is you don't need any store-bought yeast, one less thing to purchase from the store is always a plus!

Sourdough is a fermented cultured food, which means the good bacteria, pre-biotic, and probiotics help to break down the phytic acid making the nutrients in the flour easier to absorb, therefore increasing the folate and antioxidant levels.

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The yeast and bacteria feed on the starches and/or carbohydrates in the flour, making a fully cultured (allowing the flour to soak with the starter for at least 8 hours) sourdough bread lower on the Glycemic Index than regular bread.

Many gluten-sensitive individuals find that a fully cultured sourdough bread allows them to enjoy bread again without issues. There is still gluten-present, but the culture seems to degrade the gluten. This study shows IgE-binding proteins contained in the sourdough breads disappeared after in vitro digestion with pepsin, trypsin and pancreatin.

We all want a light and tender texture on our sourdough sandwich bread. It can be frustrating if your bread turns out dense and hard (I've had some of those brick-like loaves before but no more my friend!) but once you identify the culprits below, you'll be on your way!

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If your sourdough bread isn't turning out, it usually has to go back to the strength and activity in your sourdough starter. Even a mature starter can be sluggish if it hasn't been properly cared for. Inside my free homemade sourdough starter series, I cover why feeding a small amount twice a day is crucial to getting your starter into peak shape, especially for bread baking.

Older starters that have been left in the fridge for a long period of time won't rise bread well. Sourdough starters that aren't being fed regularly become weak. Young sourdough starters that are less than 4 weeks of age simply aren't strong enough for bread baking yet. I've had starters that weren't strong enough until 6 weeks of age.

Two days before baking bread, make sure your sourdough starter is at room temperature and you're feeding it twice a day to get it nice and bubbly.

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You want a flour with a strong gluten content for bread baking (no pastry flours). This recipe works well with ap flour, bread flour, and whole wheat flour. For a white bread, use all purpose flour or bread flour.

I like to use fresh ground hard white wheat (if using whole wheat or fresh ground flour you'll need to increase the water, see recipe notes) so we have the nutritional benefits of fresh ground flour and the sourdough culture.

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Any organic unbleached flour is better than conventional, but I've made sourdough starters with rice flour, all-purpose, fresh ground Einkorn, and fresh ground hard white wheat. They all worked equally as well.

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The key is how often you're feeding it, amounts, and temperature. I cover all of this in detail inside my free homemade sourdough starter series here

7 or 8 am. In the morning, feed the starter to equal 1 cup of starter. Allow starter to rise until almost doubled (usually 2 to 3 hours).

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11 am Combine all ingredients and knead the sourdough sandwich dough until it passes the windowpane test. I use the dough hook with my Kitchen Aid stand mixer and mix for 8 minutes before testing. Grease your loaf pans (these cast iron loaf pans are the ONLY loaf pans I use).

11:10 am Form loaf, creating tension on the top of the loaf, and place in bread pans. Cover so the dough doesn't dry out with either plastic or a damp tea towel. Place in a warm area to rise until dough is 1/2 inch above the lip of the loaf pan.

4 pm Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. Slather the top of the sandwich loaf with melted butter. Bake for 30 minutes.

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4:30 pm Remove bread from oven and loaf pan to a cooling wrack. Immediately rub with butter and allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before slicing.

Don't skip the butter step before baking the loaf and immediately after removing it from the oven. If you're dairy-free, you can use olive oil or melted coconut oil.

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My favorite thing to eat with this sourdough bread is more butter and this Strawberry Jam Recipe without Pectin and Low Sugar. Seriously, it's the best of all the worlds on your taste buds.

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Load it up with your favorite sandwich toppings, from peanut butter and jelly, grilled cheese (smoked gouda is a MUST), to a turkey sandwich topped with homemade mayo and these old-fashioned saltwater brine pickles.

A soft sourdough sandwich bread with a tender texture and amazing flavor without using any store-bought yeast, just the wonderful power of wild leavening. This is incredibly soft with very little crumb, so it holds up well to all your favorite sandwich fixings!

Melissa K. Norris inspires people's faith and pioneer roots with her books, podcast, and blog. Melissa lives with her husband and two children in their own little house in the big woods in the foothills of the North Cascade Mountains. When she's not wrangling chickens and cattle, you can find her stuffing Mason jars with homegrown food and playing with flour and sugar in the kitchen.Sneak Preview: Make Sourdough Bread with No Yeast using the DOUGH cycle on your bread machine. This simple sourdough bread contains four ingredients: starter, water, flour, and salt. The result will be a delicious and beautiful loaf with an open texture and 70% hydration.

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Have you ever wondered if you could make sourdough bread without commercial yeast in your bread machine? What if you could use the DOUGH cycle to accomplish the mixing and kneading phases instead of using your hands?

All you have to do is the fun part–a few stretch-and-folds, shaping, and baking in a conventional oven. (I forgot to mention the waiting–it’s an important part of the process.) Your reward is a superior crust with lots of blisters, a light and airy texture, and evenly distributed holes inside.

Every naturally-leavened sourdough loaf is slightly different. Putting the whole process on a timer would be almost impossible. Besides, a bread machine oven doesn’t get hot enough to produce a good oven spring or the crisp and crackly crust many people like and expect with this kind of sourdough bread.

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The few bread machine sourdough recipes I’ve seen online are not the simple and traditional recipes. Instead, they call for extra ingredients such as sugar or butter; more often than not, a small amount of instant yeast is thrown in for good measure. That is a loaf of hybrid sourdough bread, as seen here. Excellent, but not the same!

Some might say, “There is a sourdough setting on my bread maker. Why can’t I use that?” That setting may refer to making a sourdough starter. The machine will keep a starter at the perfect temperature when it’s getting started. If your bread machine manual says you can make a loaf of sourdough, the recipe will probably contain some instant yeast in addition to the starter.

To get the best sourdough bread, the gluten in the dough needs strengthening so your loaf will rise high and round instead of looking like a frisbee. This involves manipulation with your hands, often called “stretch-and pulls.” A bread machine cannot do this.

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It doesn’t take long, and it’s not hard. Only three to four stretch-and-pull sessions are needed, generally speaking. I’ll show you how below, or watch the video.

The other drawback is that every sourdough loaf needs a different rise time. It’s impossible to predict exactly how long any particular loaf will take. It needs a human brain to judge that.

Add starter and water to the bread machine pan. Set the empty bread machine on a digital scale (paid link) to measure everything. Using cold water during warm weather helps to keep the dough from getting too hot and sticky.

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Open the bread machine and transfer the dough from the pan to a damp surface. Expect the dough to be slack and sticky. The kneading developed the gluten, but now it needs some exercise to strengthen the gluten.

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Execute the first “stretch and fold” technique on the