Sourdough Starter recipe |Sourdough culture 101 |How to make sourdough starter in hot climate| India

Published July 22, 2023, 9:30 a.m. by Violet Harris

It's been over a year now, since i first baked a sourdough bread and ever since i have made a lot of them. I wanted to have a clear understanding of it before posted a video on this or conducted a workshop on it. Sorry for being so late with this video, I know you guys have been asking me to post this for a long time now.

sourdough bread recipe video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA3-PZ2Ra2k

What is a sourdough starter?

It is a natural, wild yeast, which has been used to make breads for around a thousand years (don't quote me on that). It is a naturally occurring lactobacilli and yeast. The lactic acid produced by the lactobacilli gives it a more sour taste and improved keeping qualities.

It is much more healthier for your gut than a commercial quick acting yeast.

You can think of it in this way, it is a type of leavening agent/yeast used to make a bread ferment and rise.

What is feeding?

feeding your starter is nothing but providing it with more food, if you have ever made dahi/ curd/ yogurt at home, you must be knowing that to make new curd, you have to put some tsps of the older curd and add milk to it and let it sit overnight in a warm place to form curd. It's exactly like that. But for making breads.

For feeding your bread, discard most of your starter after it has matured and add fresh flour and water in it. Mix it and let it sit, till it doubles or triples in size, thats when it becomes active for using in a bread dough. Then repeat.

How often to feed?

If you live in a cold climate, western part of the world, or if its currently winters going on, feed your starter once a day. If you live in India, or any other hotter climate place, in that case, during summers feed your starter twice a day. As the starter rises and falls more rapidly in hot climates.

You can also use a fermentation station if you want to control the rise and fall of the starter.

This is sourdough culture 101, if you still have doubts you can let me know in the comments below.

So, this is my sourdough starter recipe, basically a sourdough culture guide and you can use this to make sourdough breads, pizzas, baguettes, bagels, all sorts of stuff, even beer :P

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I hope now you know , how to make sourdough starter in hot climate country like India, or simply how to make a sourdough starter or how to make a sourdough culture.

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