Sourdough Recipes

Creative Uses and Recipe Ideas

Sourdough discard is incredibly versatile and can be used in numerous sweet and savory recipes. Some popular uses include:

Breakfast & Breads: Pancakes, waffles, muffins, banana bread, biscuits, and bagels.
Snacks & Savory Items: Crackers, pretzels, pizza crust, flatbreads, and even onion rings.
Desserts: Cookies (chocolate chip, snickerdoodle, shortbread), brownies, and cakes.

If you simply can't use it all for baking, you can also compost it or use it as a soil additive in the garden or feed it to your chickens (in small amounts).

Quick Rise Sourdough Bread

1 package dry yeast

1 ½ cups starter

2 tbsp. sugar

3 ½ to 4 cups flour

2 tsp. salt

1 egg

Mix starter, yeast and 1 cup warm water. Let stand until yeast is dissolved. Add remaining ingredients, except egg. Punch down. Form into loaves. Cover and let rise until doubled. Beat egg and brush over unbaked loaves. Bake at 400 deg. for 30-35 minutes.

Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls

Dough:

1 cup sourdough starter

1 tsp salt

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

1/3 cup butter, melted, cooled

1/4 cup warm milk

1 tsp yeast

3-4 cups flour

Frosting:

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tsp vanilla

2 Tbsp milk

Filling:

5 Tbsp butter, softened

1 Tbsp cinnamon

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Add sourdough starter, salt, sugar, butter and eggs to your mixer bowl.
Add yeast to the warm milk, mix in and allow to sit for 5 minutes or until foamy.
Add the milk/yeast mixture to the starter mix.
Gradually add flour, while mixing, until you have a soft ball of dough that is not sticky.
Turn out onto a floured surface and knead until elastic.
Put the dough in an oiled bowl and allow to rise until doubled.
Punch down and roll out into a rectangle, 12″ x 24″.
Spread the filling over the entire rectangle.
Roll into a log.
Cut into pieces and lay on a baking sheet.
Bake for 15-25 minutes at 350 deg.

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