4 Easy-to-Make Sourdough Fried Bread Recipes

If you believe that starting your own sourdough is the key to making real, healthy food, you're not wrong! Cooking with sourdough is probably one of the healthiest things to do. Especially when you're making these super easy Sourdough Fried Bread recipes! The results are so enticing, you won't be able to keep your hands off them!

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• 1 cup the beginning of sourdough
• ½ tsp unrefined salt
• ¼ tsp black pepper
• 1 tablespoon avocado oil
• 1 small chopped onion
• Fresh rosemary

1. Preheat a cast iron skillet over medium-low heat and pour in ½ tablespoon of avocado oil. Caramelize the onions, stirring occasionally.
2. If you notice that the onions are browning too quickly, simply lower the heat and cook until golden. This should take about 15-20 minutes.
3. Once the onions are caramelized, remove them from the pan and set them aside. Preheat your cast iron skillet over medium heat and add the remaining avocado oil to the pan.
4. Meanwhile, in a small mixing bowl, combine the sourdough starter, salt and pepper.
5. Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for three minutes. While one side of the toast is baking, top the uncooked side with caramelized onions and fresh rosemary.
6. Flip the fried bread dough to the other side and cook for another 3 minutes, until crisp and golden brown.

• Author: Natasha Krajnc
• Cooking time: 26 min
• Category: bread

What is Fry Bread?

Fried bread is a flat pancake made with sourdough or a the beginning of sourdough and sprinkled with additional ingredients for a sweet or savory flavor. Fried bread can be eaten alone, as an evening snack, or even as an appetizer.

You can top your sourdough bread with a variety of toppings from jams to powdered sugar and maple syrup.

How to use a Dough Toss?

Using a pinch of sourdough in a variety of recipes is one of the most efficient ways to minimize waste. Your sourdough batter needs attention from time to time, especially if it's been sitting in the fridge for over a month!

You can choose to bake a variety of delicious sourdough tossing recipes or toss it if you find no use for it.

Personally, I don't like to see my sourdough starter at the bottom of a bin, so I'd rather you stick around for today's delicious recipe!

Deep Fried Sourdough Starter

A deep fried sourdough starter is as easy as a sourdough pancake. Just put the dough in a cast iron pan, cook and roll, top with flavor and voila you are ready to eat!

Ingredients

• 1 cup sourdough starter
• ½ teaspoon unrefined salt
• ¼ teaspoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon of avocado oil
• 1 small chopped onion
• Fresh rosemary

GUIDELINES

1. Preheat a cast iron skillet over medium-low heat and pour in ½ tablespoon of avocado oil. Caramelize the onions, stirring occasionally.
2. If you notice that the onions are browning too quickly, simply lower the heat and cook until golden. This should take about 15-20 minutes.
3. Once the onions are caramelized, remove them from the pan and set them aside. Preheat your cast iron skillet over medium heat and add the remaining avocado oil to the pan.
4. Meanwhile, in a small mixing bowl, combine the sourdough starter, salt and pepper.
5. Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for three minutes. While one side of the toast is baking, top the uncooked side with caramelized onions and fresh rosemary.
6. Flip the fried bread dough to the other side and cook for another 3 minutes, until crisp and golden brown.

Tips for the best sourdough fry bread

• Model iron: A cast iron pan Used to fry the starter or toss sourdough it is certainly a game changer. The difference in texture and taste is too good to ignore. If you are looking for a super crispy fry bread, then this is the tool you need!
• The temperature: Cook your sourdough toast over medium medium-high heat.
• Initial consistency: Aim for a thinner sourdough batter, as it is easier to pour and cook. If you ended up with a thicker batter than planned, then you may want to thin it out by using water before frying.

4 easy recipes for fried bread

Making sourdough starter may be the tastiest dessert you've ever sunk your teeth into, but wait until you've tried these delicious pan fried bread recipes!

1. Sourdough Fried Starter Bread
2. Starter Onion Bread with Fried Sourdough
3. Fried bread with thyme and basil
4. Sour Dough Starter with Caramelized Onions
5. Tofu Sourdough Starter

Sourdough fried starter bread

For this sourdough fried bread dessert, you'll need ghee for toasting bread, cumin seeds, fresh cilantro leaves and spring greens.

1. Pour the sourdough into a bowl and add salt, pepper and chili powder or chili flakes if you want a little less heat.
2. In a pan, add a tablespoon of ghee and let it melt over medium-high heat. Add the cumin seeds and wait until they release an aroma. Then sprinkle rent chopped cilantro and spring greens in the center of the pan; quickly pour the sourdough into the pan.
3. Let it cook for half a minute to a minute, and then sprinkle on some cumin seeds, spring greens and cilantro. Use a spatula to gently roll the sourdough, toss in the fried bread once the edges start to brown.

Starter Sourdough Onion Bread

This fried tossed starter is probably one of the easiest fried bread recipes you can make at home. For this recipe, you will need sesame seeds, onions and toasted sesame seed oil.

1. Add ½ teaspoon of toasted sesame seed oil to the yeast dough and mix well before pouring into the pan. Sesame oil has a very strong scent, so make sure you don't overdo it!
2. In the previous recipe we used cumin seeds, but here we will add sesame seeds and onions to the oil. Then pour the sourdough starter into the pan. Toast the bread in the pan for a minute or two, then sprinkle some sesame seeds and scallions on top.

Fried bread with thyme and basil

This fried bread is very Italian-inspired, with flavors like thyme, basil, oregano and olives that pair well with leftovers to create the perfect treat.

1. Heat the olive oil in a pan and place a few fresh thyme leaves along with the olives in the center of the pan.
2. Pour in the batter and let it cook for a few minutes.
3. Then add fresh thyme, dried oregano, basil and chopped olives.
4. Don't forget to cook the other side!

Sour Dough Starter with Caramelized Onions

Caramelized onions are my favorite ingredient. I love adding them to just about anything. And when it comes to fry bread recipes, they make the perfect candidate. You will need chopped red onion and cilantro for this version.

1. Chop the onion in half and add this to an oiled pan, along with the chopped cilantro.
2. Once your onions are translucent, throw in the sourdough and cook for a few minutes before removing and serving.

Sourdough fried bread

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