Delicious Peach Spelt Sourdough bread made with fresh peaches and touch of cinnamon. Great fruity bread with no added sugar. 
I am in love with fruit-based sourdough bread. Earlier I tried Blueberry rye bread that turned out be delicious and beautiful loaf. So, I decided to make this Peach spelt sourdough bread. But my assumption of making this bread were wrong. First one turned out be failure. I was not able to even shape the loaf. But as you know every failure is the steppingstone to success. I learned from my mistake and second time I made this Peach Spelt Sourdough bread.
Fruit based sourdough?
When you try to make fruit-based sourdough always use fresh fruit or dry fruits. I like to use dry fruits, but nowadays I love to experiment with fresh fruits. I have already tried apple, blueberry. Next in the line is Peach. Peaches are summer fruits which are known to ward off obesity-related diseases such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. A Texas A&M study suggests that stone fruits have bioactive and phenolic compounds with anti-obesity and anti-inflammatory properties that may also reduce the bad cholesterol (LDL) associated with cardiovascular disease. They are rich in vitamin C too.
One thing you need to remember while making sourdough with fresh fruit is that only certain fruit can be incorporated in the beginning of the dough. Rest you must do it only after bulk fermentation and while during shaping.
How I made Peach Spelt sourdough
I used two fresh peaches and marinated them with little cinnamon to brings out flavor. No sugar was added. Also leaven and dough made with bread flour and spelt flour and salt. If you want, you can add sugar. But I want the natural sweetness of peaches bread, so I didn’t used any sugar. If you have active starter in hand go ahead and try with peaches. If you are not a fan of peaches any stone fruit will work, mango, nectarine, plum etc.
You can play with spices too; cinnamon is best, but you can also try with cardamom.
3 most important points to take care of are
- Use only fresh peaches not frozen, also when you marinate with cinnamon drain all the juices and use only fruit
- Check the hydration it may vary with flours you used.
- Always try to add the fruit only after bulk fermentation
This is absolute delicious breakfast bread; you can make it as toast with little butter. If you have any leftovers try to make bread pudding. If you planning a homemade gift this is perfect as it is delicious loaf of bread .
Peach Spelt Sourdough Bread
Ingredients
- For Leaven
- 45 g Bread flour
- 15 g spelt flour
- 28 g active sourdough starter
- 56 g water
- For the dough
- 420 g bread flour
- 30 g spelt flour
- Entire leaven
- 337 g water
- 9 g salt
- 278 g peaches cubed
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon
Instructions
- Prepare Leaven
- Mix all the ingredients for leaven and set aside for about 6 hours.
- Autolysis
- In another bowl bread flour, spelt flour and water and mix well and 6 hours.
- Bread dough
- When leaven is ready mix with autolyzed flour mix to form as shaggy dough. Set aside for 30 minutes before adding salt.
- After adding salt and set aside for another 30 minutes and fold the dough at 2 one-hour interval and then laminate the dough for another 1 hour and coil fold the dough 1-hour interval for next two hours and then shape the dough.
- While dough is resting chop the peaches and add cinnamon and mix well. Before shaping the dough incorporate only peaches into the dough ( no juices)
- Once you shaped the dough transfer to banneton and set aside refrigerator for cold ferment for 12 hours.
- Next morning pre-heat oven to 475 F Score the dough and transfer the dough into cold Dutch oven.
- Bake it in a pre-heated oven for 475 F for 20 min. Then reduce the temp to 450F for another 20 minutes Then remove the lid and bake for another 10-15 minutes
- Enjoy
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This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
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This worked exactly as written, thanks!
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Ken says
Laminating dough usually involves butter or fat. In this recipe are you using the term laminate for the stage represented in your video when you stretch the dough out and incorporate the fruit?
Lathiya says
The sourdough bread looks amazing. I love the addition of fruit in it and loved you used spelt flour.
Debbie Mc says
Wow I would never think to make something like this. Thanks for sharing I think I'll make it for Thanksgiving this year!
Amy H says
Wow, this is quite interesting flavor combination. I love being able to bake with fresh fruit - especially if it's in season.
Katie says
This is so unique and yet I'm so intrigued with it! We loved it!
Whitney says
Fresh baked sourdough bread is so good, but with peaches? Oh my, so delicious! Your loaf turned out amazing!
Melanie Walsh says
The bread is so pretty! I would parade it around my house to make sure everyone appreciated its beauty before slicing it. The peach sounds delightful as well.
1stopmom says
i have never had sourdough bread with fruit in it. I really love to each peaches so I can definitely see myself eating this for breakfast. Thanks for the recipe
Monica Y says
That looks delicious, I just got some peaches and I will start baking this weekend to surprise my husband
Lisa Favre says
I recently worked with spelt flour and it was easier to use than I expected! I'll need to try out your recipe because I'm a sucker for a good sourdough.
Lynndee says
That looks delicious. I have never tried preparing bread, but I have always wanted to give it a try. Nothing is more satisfying than a freshly baked bread.
Victoria says
This looks so delicious. I may have to give this a try soon. If I can pull it off I'll definitely be serving it at one of our holiday gatherings.
Ruth I says
It must be nice to have a healthy bread like this. It really looks appetizing to me. I'd love to give it a try.
Jenn @ EngineerMommy says
I have never made sourdough bread at home but this looks absolutely amazing. I love the spin you put on this bread here!!
Denay DeGuzman says
I'm completely in love with the whole idea of a fresh round loaf of peach sourdough bread! What a unique and flavorful recipe. I'm trying this soon!
Ice Cream n Sticky Fingers says
This sourdough bread looks amazing. I've never tried making homemade bread at home. I am drooling as I imagine tasting the peaches mixed into your bread to give it a hint of sweetness.
Tasheena says
I've never had a fruit based sourdough bread before. Looking forward to giving this recipe a try.
Shelly Dixon says
This looks so good! I have never tried peach sourdough bread but this makes me want to try it.
Ashley says
Oh wow this bread looks delicious. I've never had a peach sourdough bread before, I think I need to fix that.
caot says
i am a huge fan of peach but never thought to add it to bread before 🙂 this looks super delicious and easy to make! adding it to my list now!
Amber Myers says
I can almost bet I will love this. I tend to gobble up the bread, especially fresh bread made at home. It looks delicious.
Jeanette says
I've never thought about putting peach Inbred before at least not like this. I am going to try this. I love sourdough and I love peaches what a great mix.