Recipe: Easy Sourdough Sandwich Bread Overnight
With this simple recipe, you can bake soft homemade sandwich bread with sourdough. Home-baked toast is healthier than sandwich bread from the supermarket because it contains no yeast, no white sugar and no artificial flavorings or preservatives.
Ingredients
Ingredients for Tangzhong
- 20 g cake flour
- 100 ml water or (oat) milk
Ingredients for the dough
- Tangzhong
- 500 g wheat flour
- 1 tsp. honey or sirup
- 40 g sourdough starter
- 60 g soft butter or vegan butter alternative
- 340 g water
- 1 tsp. salt
Instructions
Day 1
- To make the tangzhong, mix 20 g flour with 100 g water and bring to the boil briefly while stirring.
- Cover the tangzhong and leave to cool completely.
- Mix the tangzhong, flour, water, honey, soft butter, sourdough starter and salt to form a dough.
- Cover the dough and leave to rest at room temperature for four to six hours.
- Place the dough in the fridge for one to two hours.
- Divide the dough into four equal parts and roll out into narrow rectangles.
- Roll up the rectangles and place the rolls next to each other in a greased toast tin*.
- Brush the top with milk and place in the fridge overnight.
Day 2
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and bake the sandwich bread for 40 minutes until golden brown.
- Bon appétit!
Notes
If you want to bake the toast on the same day, you can also leave the dough to rest at room temperature for two to three hours after the first rest until the dough has almost doubled in volume.
Sourdough starter: The sourdough doesn't have to be freshly fed, but it shouldn't have been more than a week since it was last refreshed. If you have discard left over, I have the right recipes for you here. I feed my sourdough with equal parts water and flour. For the flour, I use a mixture of wheat flour and wholegrain rye flour. If you feed your sourdough with a different water-to-flour ratio, you will need to adjust the amount of water in the recipe accordingly.
Butter or vegan butter alternative: You can use butter or a vegan alternative. It is important that the butter is soft so that it combines with the other ingredients.
Water: In summer the water should be cold, in winter it can be lukewarm.