Learn How to Make Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread with my favorite recipe. Sourdough starter, raw honey, coconut oil, sea salt and freshly ground wheat make up this simple and wholesome loaf.
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I have been on the hunt for a good whole wheat sourdough bread recipe for a long time. When I first made my sourdough starter over seven years ago, I tried my hand at a few recipes I found online and they always seemed to flop.
Maybe I just didn’t have enough experience with bread baking, or maybe I expected it to be as fluffy as white store bought bread. Either way, I gave up on sourdough bread for several years.
I still made my beloved English muffins, pancakes, pizza crusts, sourdough skillets and tortillas.
Sourdough bread just seemed like too much of a hassle and overly complicated.
After getting a few years of sourdough experience under my belt, it seemed high time to try again.
This time I made my own recipe. I had a favorite whole wheat bread recipe from my pre-sourdough days, and it had honey in it. None of the other whole wheat sourdough bread recipes that I could find online had any honey.
I wondered how my old trusty whole grain bread recipe would taste if I tweaked it to make it a sourdough version.
I had to play around with the amount of coconut oil, and kneading time, but I feel like I finally have something that makes a consistently delicious loaf of whole grain sourdough bread every single time. In fact, since I started making my bread from this recipe I haven’t had any flops.
If you have been trying to make sourdough bread for a while you may be all too familiar with the “flops” I’m talking about. Traditional sourdough bread baking can be a lot trickier than the modern day baking with yeast packets.
Wild Yeast Bread Baking
Instead of using a trusty little packet of active yeast that you can just grab at the local grocery store, wild fermented sourdough bread baking relies solely on the wild native yeasts to rise your bread.
This is why results can be inconsistent. You have to have a mature starter that is full of beneficial bacteria and yeasts. If the balance is off, the bread may not rise, resulting in a loaf that closer resembles a brick than bread.
This recipe for whole wheat sourdough bread produces the least brick-like loaf I have ever had.
It is actually ridiculously delicious.
We actually had a loaf, fresh out of the oven, with dinner tonight, and my husband and I were talking about the wonders of fermented foods. They just have a depth of flavor that you just can’t find in something made quickly. The taste that develops over days, and sometimes weeks, has so much dimension.
I don’t even know how to describe it. My words elude me. You just have to trust me and try it!
How to Make Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Video
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Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Recipe Ingredients
6-7 cups freshly ground flour
1 cup sourdough starter
½ cup…
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