Sourdough Recipes and Guides
If you love sourdough or want to start baking with it, you are in the right place. This hub brings all my sourdough recipes, starter tips and step by step guides together so you can learn at your own speed. From simple loaves to sweet buns, pastries and discard ideas, everything here is designed to make sourdough feel achievable in a home kitchen.
How this page works
The recipes are grouped into clusters so you can find exactly what you are looking for!
Sourdough starter guides
Your starter is the base of everything here. These guides cover how to create it, how to keep it happy and how to use it in everyday baking.
Key starter posts:
See all my sourdough starter guides, or for a full beginner friendly overview that brings the starter and the dough together, use:
Sourdough bread
These are your classic loaves and artisan styles. If you want to learn the basics of sourdough, start here. They give you dough strength, fermentation practice and confidence.
Popular sourdough breads:
- Homemade sourdough step by step
- Same day sourdough bread
- Multigrain sourdough bread
- Chocolate sourdough bread
- Rosemary sourdough bread
See all sourdough bread recipes
Soft rolls, buns and bagels
These bakes use soft doughs and are perfect for sandwiches, burgers, breakfast and freezer friendly baking.
Featured recipes:
- Sourdough Dinner Rolls
- Sourdough Burger Buns
- Sourdough Salt Bread (Japanese Shio Pan)
- New-York Style Sourdough Bagels
- Soft Sourdough English Muffins
See all sourdough rolls and bagels
Enriched sourdough
Enriched doughs use eggs, butter, milk or sugar for a soft, tender crumb. They are ideal for morning teas, celebrations and weekend baking.
Featured recipes:
- Tender Sourdough Brioche
- Sourdough Brioche Cinnamon Rolls
- Soft Sourdough Chocolate Babka
- Sourdough Monkey Bread
- Sourdough Hot Cross Buns
See all enriched sourdough recipes
Laminated sourdough and pastry
These recipes use layers of butter and dough for flaky, tender pastry.
Featured recipes:
- Sourdough Croissants
- Flaky Sourdough Cruffins
- Homemade Sourdough Danishes
- Sourdough Puff Pastry
- Sourdough Kouign Amann
See all laminated sourdough recipes
Sourdough Discard Bakes
These recipes use starter to add flavour and moisture to cakes, muffins, cookies and quick breads.
Featured recipes:
- Sourdough Chocolate Cake
- Sourdough Naan Bread
- Best Sourdough Banana Bread
- Sourdough Peach Cobbler
- Sourdough Banana Pancakes
- Chocolate Chip Muffins with Sourdough
- Soft Sourdough Lemon Loaf
See all sourdough discard recipes
Sourdough troubleshooting
If something does not feel right in your dough, these guides can help
Featured guides:
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