Apple Crisp Sourdough Loaf#BreadBakers

This Apple Crisp Sourdough is one of our favorite and irresistible bread that I make so often, since we love the warm, comforting flavors of spices like cinnamon, plus oats, brown sugar, and freshly grated apple.
Soft on the inside with a beautifully caramelized crust, this sourdough bread makes a delicious breakfast, afternoon snack, dessert or perfect for some fruit crostini.

Ingredients
100 Grams bubbly, active sourdough starter
60 Grams Homemade Apple Cider - unsweetened
250 Grams Water
410 Grams All purpose Flour
60 Grams Whole Wheat Flour
10 Grams Salt
10 Grams Honey
For The Oat Filling
1 Large Apple - grated
¼ Cup Brown Sugar
½ Cup Rolled Oats
1 Teaspoon Cinnamon

Method
To Make The Homemade Apple Cider
Wash and chop one apple blend it with 250ml water. Then strain the juice. Place this in a saucepan heat it and reduce it to 60ml. Cool then use this to knead the dough.
How to Make Apple Crisp Sourdough
In the morning, feed your starter.

When your starter has doubled, assemble your dough.

Start by mixing your starter, water, apple cider and honey together in a large mixing bowl until your starter has dissolved. Add in your flour and salt and mix together until a shaggy dough forms.
Cover with a damp tea towel or bowl cover and let rest for 45 minutes.
After resting, pull one side of the dough up and towards the middle, rotating the bowl and repeating each time for 30 to 60 seconds until a semi – smooth dough forms. Cover and let rest for one hour.
Repeat the stretch and folds 3 more times every 30 to 45 minutes apart.

Cover your bowl with a damp tea towel or place it in a proofing box and let rest on the counter to bulk ferment until it doubles in volume. 

Then refrigerate the dough.
The Next Morning, transfer your fermented dough to clean workspace.

Slightly stretch your dough out into a rectangle shape.

Into a small bowl, mix together the grated apple, brown sugar, oats and cinnamon together.

Evenly sprinkle ¾ of the apple mixture all over the surface of the dough. 

Fold one of the longer sides of the rectangle up and towards the middle, do the same with the other side and meet it towards the center.

Sprinkle the remaining apple mixture over the seam of and roll the dough up.
Using the palms of your hands, push the dough up and pull the dough down on your workspace to create tension. Be careful with the step, creating too much tension will cause the surface of the dough to rip.

Use your bench scraper to transfer the dough into a floured banneton seam side up. Let rest in the banneton for 10 minutes.
After resting, stitch the center of the bread dough from the top all the way to the bottom.
Cover and place in the fridge for at least 2 hours or up to 48 hours.
When you’re ready to bake, place your Dutch oven into your home oven and preheat it to 210°C for at least 20 minutes.

Transfer your dough onto a piece of parchment paper or a bread silicon mat. 

Using a bread lame, score the top of the dough into whatever design you like best.

Carefully place the dough into a hot Dutch oven with the parchment paper. Cover with the lid and bake for 25 minutes. Remove the lid and bake for an additional 23 – 25 minutes, depending on how golden you like the crust.

Remove from the oven and place onto a cooling rack. 

Let your bread fully cool before slicing and serving with a side of soft butter or apple butter.

Labels: Sourdough, Breads, Apple, Cinnamon, Oats, Bread Bakers

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.

This month's Bread Baker's theme is Bread With Fruit.

• Pan di Ramerino (Rosemary Raisin Buns) by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Mini Apricot Cranberry Panettones by A Messy Kitchen
• Pumpkin apple sourdough Loaf by Zesty South Indian Kitchen
• Pecan Banana Bread Mini Loaves by Food Lust people Love
• Apple Crisp Sourdough Loaf by Sneha's Recipe
• Fig Bread Recipe by The Wimpy Vegetarian
• Sourdough Blueberry Breakfast Loaf by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Oat and Raisin Quick Bread (Gluten Free) by Passion Kneaded 

Air Fryer Small Sourdough Sandwich Bread#SundayFunday

Wanted to try baking bread in a airfryer, seen so many reels, so tried it and it turned out fantastic. No need for a dutch oven now you can bake bread in a airfryer too. Such an easy way to bake bread.

Ingredients
3 Grams Salt
110 Grams Water
33 Grams Active Sourdough Starter
170 Grams Bread Flour or All Purpose Flour
Method 

Combine active starter, salt, and warm water in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the flour, then knead lightly until a shaggy dough forms.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap (or aluminum foil) and let the dough rest at room temperature for bulk fermentation, about 6-8 hours.
For the first two hours of the bulk ferment, try to do 3 – 4 rounds of stretch and folds. Start with the first one at least 30 minutes after mixing the dough.

Flatten the dough into a rectangle, and gently fold about 1/3 of the dough from one short edge over toward the center, then repeat with the opposite edge so they overlap a bit. Rotate the dough 90 degrees, then gently roll it up. Finally, shape it into loaf.
Place the dough in a proofing basket lined with a lightly floured tea towel. Cover with a plastic bag and refrigerate overnight.
The next morning, preheat your air fryer @ 180°C for about 5 minutes.

Place a piece of parchment paper over the basket, and gently turn the basket upside down to release the dough onto the paper.Place the bread in a baking pan.

Score the top of the dough with a sharp knife or razor blade.
Reduce the temperature to 160°C. Place 3 -4 ice cubes. 

Place the pan in the basket. Bake it for 20 - 25 minutes. 

When baked remove the bread from the pan, 

turn it and bake for another 5 minutes @ 180°C for 2 - 3 minutes 

or until the bread starts to brown at the bottom.

Remove the bread from the oven and cool on a wire rack.

Cool & slice, see how soft and airy the bread is. 

Labels: Air Fryer, Bread, Sandwich Bread, Sourdough,Sunday Funday

Let's take a look at the other Homemade Breads being shared today..... 

• Air Fryer Small Sourdough Sandwich Bread from Sneha's Recipe
• A Magical Small Sourdough Loaf from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Herb Flatbread from Culinary Cam
• Homemade Pitas from Amy's Cooking Adventures
• No Knead Ciabatta from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Orange Cinnamon Swirl Bread from Mayuri's Jikoni
• Parmesan Pull-Apart Bread from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Two Ingredient Cottage Cheese Rolls from Our Good Life
• Vanilla Mirabelle Plum Jam - Small Batch from Food Lust People Love

Soft & Fluffy Sourdough Hamburger Buns#BreadBakers

These easy sourdough hamburger buns are light and fluffy, simple to make, they’re perfect to make the day before you want to use them. They are the ideal hamburger bun for a soups or burgers.
What I like about these buns
- You do not knead a food processor or kitchen aid to make the dough.
- They do not need a baking stone or Dutch oven for this, since the enriched dough will bake directly in a baking pan and it won’t require steam. 

Makes 9 Buns
Ingredients
For Feeding The Sourdough Starter
25 Grams Sourdough Starter
50 Grams All Purpose Flour
50 Grams Water
For The Buns Dough
450 Grams All Purpose Flour
150 Grams Water
100 Grams Milk
20 Grams Fresh Yogurt - optional
25 Grams Granulated Sugar
10 Grams Pink Himalayan Salt
100 Grams Active Fed Sourdough Starter
55 Grams Salted Butter 
Method
For Feeding The Sourdough Starter

Take 25 grams of leftover sourdough starter out of the fridge and feed it 50 grams all purpose flour and 50 grams of water. Stir the ingredients thoroughly to combine and mark the top of the starter with a rubber band. 

Cover the starter loosely with a lid and let it rise at room temperature for 5-8 hours, or until it doubles in size.

Mixing The Dough

When your starter has doubled in size and it’s ready to use.

Add the following ingredients to a large mixing bowl, the water, milk, yogurt, sugar, salt, and sourdough starter. Stir the liquid ingredients together with a spoon or a dough whisk to break of up starter and to dissolve the salt and sugar.
Next, add all of the flour to the mixing bowl and stir the ingredients together until a rough dough forms. At this point, cover up the bowl with a kitchen towel or shower cap and let the dough rest for 30 to 45 minutes.
To prepare the butter to be added to the dough

Cut the butter into cubes and let it rest at room temperature so that it can soften.
After the 30 to 45 minutes rest, uncover the dough and add all of the softened butter cubes right on top of the dough. Squeeze the butter into the dough with your hands until it is thoroughly combined with the dough and the dough starts to hold together again. Cover the dough and let it rest for 30 to 45 minutes.
Stretch & Folds

Next, give the dough it’s first set of stretch and folds. Uncover the dough and grab an edge of the dough and stretch it upwards, then when the dough begins to resist, fold it over the top of the dough. Continue stretching and folding the edges of the dough about 10 - 12 times total, or until the dough starts to resist stretching and firm up. After that, cover the dough up again and let it rest for 30 to 45 minutes.

Give the dough a second set of stretch and folds. The dough should be smoother and hold together better than it did during this next set of stretch and folds. Cover the dough and let it rest for another 30 to 45 minutes. I have done 3 sets of stretch & folds after every 30 to 45 minutes.
Finally, give the dough one last set of stretch and folds and then flip the dough over so the smooth side is facing up and the seam side is facing down. 
The First Rise (Bulk Fermentation)

Cover the dough with a layer of plastic wrap or shower cap (or close the bowl with an airtight lid) and then let the dough rise at room temperature, or for at least 8-12 hours , If you are staying in warm climate like Mumbai then dough rises in 3 to 4 hours. You want the dough to completely double in size, which can take more time than usual since this is a heavy, enriched dough. 

The dough should be doubled in size and ready to shape.
Dividing & Shaping

Take the dough on a just lightly floured surface. Divide the dough into nine equal-sized pieces. If you want to use a scale to weigh the dough balls precisely, scale them to nine dough balls.
Shape them directly into individual balls. Stretch and fold each piece of dough into a ball, and then roll the dough into a tight ball on the surface of the kitchen counter with your hand in a circular motion.

Arrange the dough balls in a 9×13″ baking pan lined with parchment paper. When evenly spaced out, the dough balls should be close but not touching each other. 

As the sourdough hamburger buns rise, they will touch and press into each other like pull-apart rolls.
Sourdough hamburger buns divided, shaped, ready to proof, kept them on the counter covered with an oiled cling wrap for 2 hours then refrigerated for overnight ( for 12 hours).

Here they are out from the refrigerator and kept for further proofing for another 2 hours or until they are almost completely doubled in size . They make take more time or less depending on the temperature in your kitchen.

Buns finally & fully proofed, ready to go into the preheated oven.

Brush them with egg or milk wash and bake in preheated oven at 200°C for 20 to 30 minutes. In my oven they got baked in exactly 20 minutes. Each oven temperature may differ so check accordingly.

Remove the baked rolls from the pan onto a cooling rack then brush them with butter or neutral oil. Let the the rolls cool for at least 30 minutes before serving for dinner.
My Notes

If you don’t want to make pull-apart hamburger buns, you can arrange them further apart on two sheet pans. This will prevent the buns from rising into each other and they will each be round and uniform after baking. Using a pastry brush, brush the buns with a tablespoon of melted butter or neutral oil. This will help keep the buns from drying out while they rise and it will stop them from sticking to the plastic wrap.

You want the buns to almost completely double in size during the final proof, so this might require an extra long proofing time. Hamburger buns that are proofed for less time tend to tear open on the sides/top during baking. Proofing them until they are very puffy, soft, and delicate will fix this issue. 

Properly proofed hamburger buns will also be softer and more airy on the inside, which is exactly what you want in this type of bread. 

Softest & fluffiest, pull-apart sourdough hamburger buns. that are sure to be a hit at your burger party.

Labels: Sourdough, Dinner Rolls, Buns,Bread Bakers, Eggless, Breads

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.
We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.
This month’s theme is Rolls & Buns.

• Alabama Orange Rolls from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Cheesy and Spicy Wild Garlic Stuffed Spelt Rolls from Cook with Renu
• Filled Wool Rolls from Passion Kneaded
• Hoagie Rolls from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Käsebrötchen from Food Lust People Love
• Orange Date Sticky Toffee Buns from A Messy Kitchen
• Soft and Fluffy Sourdough Hamburger Buns from Sneha's Recipe