The Best Sourdough Recipe (Beginner Friendly)

Brioche bread is absolutely fantastic, especially when you enjoy it as part of your breakfast. Toasted and drizzled with raspberry jam to create the perfect bite. But what happens when sweet croissant bread meets sourdough? You get the best sourdough croissant recipe! Dive into this beginner-friendly recipe and don't forget to have your sourdough starter ready!

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For the dough

• 83 g whole milk
• 480 g active sourdough starter
• 6 whole eggs
• 565 g organic all-purpose flour
• 20 g organic cane sugar
• 1 tablespoon. unrefined sea salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter (softened but firm)

For washing eggs

1. Place the milk, sourdough starter, eggs, flour and sugar in a large bowl or stand mixer. Cook on medium-low using the dough hook for 5 minutes.
2. Add salt while the mixer continues to rotate.
3. Add butter, one tablespoon at a time. Wait until each tablespoon is cooked before adding the next tablespoon of butter.
4. Let the mixer run for 15-20 minutes, or until it passes the window glass test. The windowpane test is basically when you grab a piece of dough and stretch it out. If you can see light coming through the dough just before it tears, it's ready!
5. Scrape the dough into a pre-greased glass bowl, then cover with plastic wrap and let it ferment at room temperature for 1 hour. We put it in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
6. Grease two 9×5-inch glass baking pans, then set aside.
7. Divide the dough into 2 separate balls and shape each dough ball into a patty. You can braid the buns or create 6 individual buns for an easier finish.
8. Place the patties in the prepared pans, then cover and let rise until almost doubled in size (2-8 hours).
9. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
10. Whisk together the egg and water, then brush over the puffs.
11. Bake the sourdough bread in the preheated oven until they get a wonderful golden brown. This should take about 35-40 minutes.
12. Remove the bread and transfer to a wire cooling rack. Let cool for an hour before slicing.

• Author: Natasha Krajnc
• Preparation time: 19 hours and 40 minutes
• Cooking time: 40 min
• Category: bread
• Kitchen: french

Nutrition

• Serving Size: 1 slice
• Calories: 178 kcal

Keywords: sourdough

Why make a sourdough croissant?

If you're a fan of sourdough but also love croissants, then why not combine the two to create a sourdough bread with a wonderful texture and incredible taste?

This soft and fluffy sourdough bread is enhanced with lots of butter, sugar and eggs, to create the perfect moist crumb to indulge in.

And the great thing about sourdough croissant dough is that you can create a wonderful variety of desserts with it: from croissant hamburger buns to croissant cinnamon rolls; Croissant dough is a gift that keeps on giving!

Can sourdough make muffins?

Yes absolutely! The main component of any sourdough recipe is the sourdough starter or sourdough toss, which provides a unique flavor to your recipes, whether you are baking bread, muffins or brownies, the taste of sourdough will not to never remain undiscovered!

For this particular sourdough recipe, you'll need an active sourdough starter, especially if you're trying to capture the unique flavors and texture of traditional sourdough bread.

What type of sourdough starter do you need for Brioche?

To be honest, you can use a regular sourdough starter to make sourdough croissants, as long as it is active and fed before you use it in your recipe.

What is the difference between sourdough and brioche?

The difference between the two types of bread lies in the enriched brioche dough, which makes it slightly sweeter than sourdough. Since sourdough contains wild yeast, the resulting bread gives a delicate taste.

Along with the enriched dough, you also get that familiar soft croissant texture, along with its unique golden color, which stands out greatly from the brown or white crust of sourdough.

Is Sourdough Brioche Bread Healthy?

While brioche contains sugar, this brioche recipe uses a number of healthy elements, including sourdough starter, which is crawling with a number of health benefits. You can discover the many benefits of sourdough with: Is sourdough bread healthy?

Although croissant bread calls for sugar, it's only a small amount, while large amounts of butter are probably enough to raise an eyebrow, the fact that this recipe calls for sourdough elements is what makes it slightly healthier than regular croissant bread.

Sourdough bread contains more vitamins and minerals than other types of bread, as well as lower levels of phytate, enabling your body to absorb these nutrients easily. That's why combining a fantastic and delicious flatbread like croissant bread with a healthier recipe like sourdough bread turns this not-so-healthy bread into a healthier version.

Sourdough bread recipe

Enjoy this recipe for soft, fluffy and enriched sourdough brioche bread. Combining your favorite ingredients to create a delicious sourdough bread. Once you take a bite, there's no going back!

• Business: Bread
• kitchen: French
• Recipe yield: 2 loaves of bread
• Calories: 178 kcal
• Preparation time: 19 hours 40 minutes
• COOKING TIME: 40 minutes
• Total time: 20H10M

Ingredients

For the dough

• 83 g whole milk
• 480 gr active sourdough starter
• 6 whole eggs
• 565 g organic all-purpose flour
• 20 g of organic cane sugar
• 1 tablespoon. unrefined sea salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter (softened but firm)

For washing eggs

GUIDELINES

1. Place the milk, sourdough starter, eggs, flour and sugar in a large bowl or stand mixer. Cook on medium-low using the dough hook for 5 minutes.
2. Add salt while the mixer continues to rotate.
3. Add butter, one tablespoon at a time. Wait until each tablespoon is cooked before adding the next tablespoon of butter.
4. Let the mixer run for 15-20 minutes, or until it passes the window glass test. The windowpane test is basically when you grab a piece of dough and stretch it out. If you can see light coming through the dough just before it tears, it's ready!
5. Scrape the dough into a pre-greased glass bowl, then cover with plastic wrap and let it ferment at room temperature for 1 hour. We put it in the refrigerator for 12 hours.
6. Grease two 9×5-inch glass baking pans, then set aside.
7. Divide the dough into 2 separate balls and shape each dough ball into a patty. You can braid the buns or create 6 individual buns for an easier finish.
8. Place the patties in the prepared pans, then cover and let rise until almost doubled in size (2-8 hours).
9. Meanwhile, preheat your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
10. Whisk together the egg and water, then brush over the puffs.
11. Bake the sourdough bread in the preheated oven until they get a wonderful golden brown. This should take about 35-40 minutes.
12. Remove the bread and transfer to a wire cooling rack. Let cool for an hour before slicing.

Nutrition

• Calories: 178 kcal
• Carbohydrates: 30 g
• Protein: 7 g
• Fat: 10 g
• Saturated fat: 6 g

Tips for making sourdough

• The first thing you need to know about sourdough is that the dough is quite a wet dough. So even if you try to add more flour to the dough, hoping to make it a little stronger, don't. Simply put, too much dry flour will result in a tough pastry, instead of what you're trying to achieve, which is a light and fluffy piece of brioche.
• If you don't have all-purpose flour, you can use bread flour.
• You can make this recipe vegan-friendly by using plant-based milk and butter, eg. coconut oil and almond milk.
• Make sure all your ingredients are at room temperature, as cold ingredients can slow fermentation.
• Your butter should be melted but not hot, so make sure it's lukewarm before adding it to the batter.
• Use 100% hydrated sourdough starter, i.e. fed with equal parts flour and water.

You can make razors with sourdough without sugar

Indeed, a sourdough croissant isn't a croissant without the subtle sweetness we all know and love. For this reason, completely eliminating sugar can remove the original flavors, and if that's what you want, then that's perfectly fine.

However, you can easily replace the sugar with something a little healthier, such as a little honey, or a natural sweetener like stevia to make this sweet and fluffy bread healthier.

Sourdough

Sourdough brioche makes the perfect weekend dessert and a real breakfast treat.

On that note, here are some wonderful and healthy ones Recipes for breakfast with sourdough to try! And here are some sourdough recipes you can make:

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