Sourdough Discard Recipes

These are my Top 4 Sourdough Discard Recipes. These are my go-to, “everyday recipes,” when I have a heap of extra sourdough starter and zero extra time to start bread. The great thing about each of these recipes is the starter is the main ingredient. I often feed my starter just to make these nourishing gut-friendly recipes. I find it helpful to have sourdough discard at the ready; it makes quick, delicious & gut-healthy meal ideas possible.

Through this post, I want to encourage you, even the non-bread bakers, that keeping a sourdough starter can elevate, assist, and nourish. It can take an ordinary meal and turn it into something nutrient-dense for your family. At this point, I would be lost without my sourdough starter. If I have a jar full of starter, these recipes below can be quickly prepared, with little forethought involved. Send this to someone who hesitates to keep a starter in their home. Show them how useful one can be. I have lovingly referred to my starter, as my kitchen side-kick, and that’s exactly what she is! Enjoy.

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#1: Sourdough Dutch Baby [Puff Pancake]

A Sourdough Dutch Baby also known as a Puff Pancake, is a skillet-sized pancake that we make multiple times a week in our farmhouse kitchen for a sourdough breakfast option, as it’s packed full of protein (7 eggs!) to start the day on the right foot. Preparing the Dutch baby takes just a few minutes, and we can get the morning chores done while it bakes. It’s a wonderful sourdough discard recipe. Enjoy this sweet, yet protein-filled breakfast that leaves you feeling satiated but not weighed down.

There are endless variations to this Dutch baby recipe. In this recipe, I share the Dutch Baby in its simplest form along with a few fun and creative ideas from our family to yours!

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#2: Sourdough Discard Pizzas

This sourdough discard pizza is one of our favorite dinners and one of the best ways to use your extra sourdough discard. It’s less of a recipe as it only takes one ingredient- sourdough starter, plus your favorite pizza toppings. I can use up heaps of sourdough starter this way, as well as get dinner on the table fast. And when I know we are eating a probiotic-rich, gut-healthy, and easy-to-digest pizza crust, it’s a beautiful peace of mind.

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#3: Sourdough Discard Crackers

These simple and decadent sourdough discard crackers are made with 3 ingredients including fermented dough, butter, and salt resulting in a piquant and buttery cracker. A lovely go-to snack option or an artisanal addition to a charcuterie board. These crackers taste like Cheez-Its, but better! Kids like to snack and Mama likes to nourish their gut biomes while they munch.

We all crave something salty and crunchy from time to time. Reaching for a sourdough cracker that is made with fermented flour, healthy grass-fed or cultured butter, and a good quality salt is reaching for a snack full of healthy fats, minerals, and gut-friendly probiotics.

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#4: Sourdough Pancakes

This is your Go-To Sourdough Pancake recipe. When I think of the weekend, I can smell these flapjacks frying in butter on my cast-iron, and everyone comes flocking to the table. These pancakes come together with 8 ingredients- a bubbly and active state or discard as the main ingredient. Fried to a golden-crisp on the edges, soft and fluffy in the middle, with that untuned sour taste. Look no further, fear no more, this is your new old-fashioned Sourdough Pancakes Recipe.

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Frequently Asked Questions:

What is the benefit of sourdough discard?

Sourdough discard like the active sourdough starter is a type of fermentation that has vast nutritional benefits including:

1. Fermentation breaks down the antinutrients found in the grains of flour. There is a thick shell-like coating on the outside of the grains of flour, this shell (antinutrient) is difficult for our systems to digest. It’s like an assault on the digestive system to try and process unfermented grains—sourdough works to eat away at these antinutrients making it easier to digest.
2. When that shell-like coating is no longer present, the nutrients found in the grain, are now readily available for your body to absorb and use to feed every cell.
3. The dough develops a unique sour character and a thicker more artisanal-like flavor profile.

Here are some more beautiful Sourdough Discard Recipes saved for special occasions:

• Sourdough Strawberry Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake– (any fruit can be used in this upside-down cake)
• Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
• Sourdough Apple Cake

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