If you are looking for a delicious, nutrient-packed spin on traditional sourdough, this Sourdough Sweet Potato Loaf is about to become your new favorite bake.
Combining the tangy complexity of sourdough with the natural sweetness and moisture of roasted sweet potatoes, this loaf is perfect for breakfast toast, warm fall dinners, or simply enjoying it on its own with butter.
Here you can see why sweet potatoes work so beautifully in sourdough, and pro tips for achieving a soft, airy crumb and golden crust every time.
Why Bake a Sourdough Sweet Potato Loaf?
This flavorful bread delivers a tender crumb, a beautiful golden color, and added nutritional benefits like fiber and vitamin A, making it a perfect choice for both everyday baking and seasonal comfort food. Sweet potatoes bring more than just flavor—they add:
Incredible moisture for a tender crumb
Natural sweetness complements sourdough’s tang.
Vibrant color (that gorgeous golden hue!)
Nutrients like fiber, potassium, and vitamin A It is the perfect loaf for bakers who want to branch out from traditional lean sourdough and explore softer, richer bread.
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Ingredients
Most ingredients are pantry staples for sourdough bakers:
- Sourdough Starter : 100% hydration sourdough starter.
- Sweet Potato Puree : I made boiled sweet potato puree; you can use roasted sweet potato puree.
- All-purpose flour : Unbleached all-purpose flour is good; you can use combo all purpose flour and wheat flour.
- Vegetable oil : use your favorite oil
- Egg: Adds moistness to the loaf
- Baking soda : Function as leavner in this recipe.
- Sweetener : here we use both brown and sweet sugar.
- Sweet potato spice: homemade spice mix recipe is here.
- Milk: you can use any milk.
See recipe card for quantities.
How to make this Sourdough Sweet Potato Loaf
First in medium bowl add flour, salt, sugar and sweet potato spice mix and baking powder and mix well.
In another bowl add vegetable oil, eggs, sweet potato puree, sourdough starter, and milk and mix well.
- Step 1: Combine sweet potato spice, flour, and baking soda
- Step 2: Egg, vegetable oil, brown sugar, sugar, s and sourdough starter
- Step 3: Mix in with sweet potato puree
- Step 3: Add dry ingredients
- Step 4: Fold in with pecans and bake at 350°F for 60 mintues
Combine dry ingredients with wet ingredients and fold in pecan
Bake at 350°F and enjoy!
Variation
If you enjoy nutty texture, fold in chopped nuts such as pecans, walnuts, or almonds for a rich, crunchy bite.
For a sweeter breakfast-style variation, you can include swirls of maple syrup, brown sugar, or cinnamon sugar, or you can add dried fruits like cranberries, raisins, or dates for bursts of sweetness.
Savory option add herbs such as rosemary, thyme, sage, or roasted garlic turn the loaf into an amazing side for fall dinners, soups, or holiday meals
You can also blend in pumpkin or butternut squash purée for a different twist while keeping the loaf soft and moist, or incorporate seeds like pumpkin, sesame, or sunflower for added nutrition and texturehey're cooking for that could use this. This is also a great idea to link out to another blogger with a similar recipe that fits a different diet.
Storage
This Sourdough Sweet Potato loaf will be stored at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
This sweet potato loaf also freezes well; cool bread completely before wrapping and freezing.
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FAQ
Can I use whole wheat flour instead of all purpose flour for this sweet potato loaf recipe? Yes you can, best results will be using half and half of both the flour.
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Sourdough Sweet Potato Loaf
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ cups 200g sifted all-purpose flour
- ½ cup 100g White sugar
- ½ cup 100g Brown sugar
- ½ cup 100g Sourdough starter
- ⅓ cup 62g Vegetable oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon sweet potato spice mix * ½ teaspoon ground cardamom ¼ teaspoon ground ginger ½ teaspoon cinnamon ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ cup 57g Milk
- 1 cup cooked and mashed sweet potatoes
- ½ cup 53g chopped pecans
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 350 ℉ and line the baking tin with parchment paper or butter and flour the sides, and set aside.
- In a large bowl, add flour, salt, baking and spice mix and mix everything and set aside.
- In another bowl add vegetable oil, two eggs, brown sugar and granulated sugar, sweet potato puree, milk and combine everything and set aside.
- To wet ingredients, add dry ingredients and combine everything, finally fold in pecans and transfer to prepared loaf tin
- Top with some pecans if you want and bake at 350 ℉ for 60 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.
- Once it cool down, slice and 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.
Elle says
I happened to have some extra sweet potatoes and this was the perfect use for them! Delicious!
Nicole says
I thoroughly enjoyed this recipe. I love the tang of the sourdough combined with the natural sweetness of the sweet potato. Yummy!
Ben says
This looks really good. I've never had a sourdough loaf with sweet potato before. This is just what I've been looking for to give my new starter a try!
Joan says
I love seeing sourdough used in sweet applications! This loaf looks incredibly soft and has such a beautiful golden crust.
Nora says
Such a beautiful loaf! The sweet potato adds so much flavor and softness to the sourdough. Loved it!
Leslie says
This is a fantastic sourdough recipe. I would have never thought to add sweet potato to sourdough but the flavor was perfection!
Stacy says
A great bread for the season, Swathi! Sweet potatoes add such lovely flavor and sweetness to dough.
Jackson says
This was really delicious. A festive, flavorful loaf!
Patti says
This sourdough sweet potato loaf feels cozy and full of flavor. It is such a fun, nutrient packed twist on classic sourdough.
Sneha Datar says
A delicious baked sourdough bread!
Karen's Kitchen Stories says
How fun that you have a sweet potato spice! Your crumb looks very much like a yeasted bread too even though it's a quick bread! This bread sounds delicious.
Beth says
This sweet potato sourdough loaf was delicious! I'm usually not a huge fan of sweet potato but wanted to give this a try and loved it!
hobby baker Kelly says
It sounds wonderful, and I have a large purple sweet potato sitting on my counter to use up! I should make this to take down to the parents!
Wendy M. Klik says
I've had great success using my discard in quick loaves and muffins. I love the idea of sweet potato quick bread....what a great way to use leftover sweet potato casserole.