Cheat's Sourdough
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recipe by Tenina Holder https://bit.ly/TheWeekendTable
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- Total Time
- 4hrs 30mins
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- Serves
- 4
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- Calories
- 718
This Thermomix Cheat's sourdough recipe is a quick alternative to classic sourdough bread, thanks to the addition of a little yeast. By retaining some of the dough each time you bake this bread, you'll soon have your own sourdough starter to work with!
Inspired by: https://tenina.com/recipes/cheats-sourdoughrecipe updated 12 Jan 2022
Ingredients
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- Fresh yeast
- 30 g
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- Sugar
- 1 teaspoon
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- Water
- 300 g
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- Salt
- 1 pinch
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- Bread flour
- 550 g
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- Malt powder
- 2 tablespoons
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- Extra virgin olive oil
- 20 g
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- Sourdough starter
- 200 g
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- Water
- 1 L
Tools
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Oven
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TM5
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Varoma dish
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Tm5 bowl
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Varoma tray - tm5
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Pizza stone
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Work surface
Step preview
- Add fresh yeast, sugar, water and salt to the TM bowl
- Heat - 2 min, 37°C, speed 2
- Add remaining ingredients
- Mix with MC on - 10 min, speed 6
- Knead - 2 min, dough
- Turn out onto Silpat mat and punch into tight ball
- Wrap tightly and allow to double
- Punch down dough and shape into 2 loaves
- Place each loaf onto a separate sheet of baking paper
- Pre-heat oven - 220°C
- Heat pizza stone if possible
- Add water to the TM5 bowl
- Bring to the boil - 8 min, Varoma, speed 2
- Place one loaf into Varoma dish
- Steam - 10 min, Varoma, speed 3
- Remove bread and slide onto pizza stone immediately
- Bake a clean pizza stone - 8 min, 220°C
- Let cool on round wire rack - 1 hr
- Repeat with remaining loaf
- Over time, you will not need to add dried or fresh yeast to this recipe. Adding the reserved 'starter' each time will be enough yeast for the bread to rise to the occasion!