Delicious Turmeric Sourdough bread made with flour, multigrain flour with anti- inflammatory turmeric, goes well bowl of soup. 
Turmeric Sourdough bread was in my mind for long time. Even though I use turmeric every day, I haven’t tried it in Sourdough bread. Sourdough bread are my weakness. This time I used ground turmeric powder and I fell in love with the bread, so I am going to try with fresh turmeric.
Beauty of sourdough breadIt is like a new movie you are watching you don’t know what will happen in the end. Sourdough is made with natural wild yeast and microbes growing in your surroundings. Sourdough bread has a sour taste and better inherent keeping qualities than breads made with baker's yeast, due to the lactic acid produced by the lactobacilli. You don’t have to worry about it getting spoiled easily. Sourdough bread has a low glycemic index and can help keep your blood sugar and insulin levels lower and can prevent insulin resistance and diabetes.
With sourdough, the grain, oftentimes wheat, is fermented with lactic acid bacteria and wild yeasts. In this process, the grain is metabolized by the bacteria and lactic acid is produced. Sourdough has reduced simple sugar content and high levels of lactic acid, which makes it unique from other types of bread. Also, it is always best to make your own sourdough bread as you know what is going on there.
Once you have an active starter going on, you can start baking the bread. You need to take care of lot of things, do not use chlorinated water, if starter not active you are wasting money. So, make sure to feed more often to make them happy and hungry. So, they can make good healthy delicious bread.
Why Turmeric Sourdough?
Turmeric or curcumin is one of healthiest spice you can see in the world. Yes, it is used in India for thousands of years as a spice and medicinal herb. The craze for it started in the western world only after science started to show their anti-inflammatory effects and is a very strong antioxidant. It helps in brain function as well as helps to keep the heart healthy
Again, if you use too much turmeric it makes everything bitter so make sure to take small amount rather adding 1 tablespoon turmeric in a single curry or turmeric latte. I use maximum ¼ teaspoon turmeric in curries. For this Sourdough bread too, I used only 1 teaspoon turmeric. If you want, you can go 1 ½ teaspoon about 3g. I didn’t incorporate any other spices; you can try with cumin seeds or ginger in you want.
Once you feed the starter make the leaven and autolyse the flours I used both bread flour and high extraction multigrain flours and then started making the sourdough bread and next day bake and enjoy.
Turmeric Sourdough Bread
Ingredients
- For Leaven
- 100 g Bread flour
- 15 g High Extraction Multigrain flour
- 20 g active sourdough starter
- 75 g water
- For the dough
- 300 g bread flour
- 100 g High Extraction multigrain flour
- Entire leaven
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 290 g water
- 9 g salt
Instructions
- Prepare Levan
- Mix all the ingredients for leaven and set aside for about 6 hours.
- Autolysis
- In another bowl bread flour, multigrain flour, turmeric 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, 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.
- Once you shaped the dough transfer to banneton and set aside refrigerator for cold ferment for 12 hours.
- Next morning pre-heat oven to 47Score 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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Deborah says
I emailed u today to see which recipe for sourdough bread would be easiest for a beginner. Would this one be too hard?
Swathi says
No I send you a email back. Let me know how it turned out for you.
Elizabeth says
I loved the turmeric in this recipe! So easy to follow, too. Thanks for sharing!
Nora says
This bread turned out perfectly! It has a wonderful taste with this amazing turmeric flavor! You can eat it just like it is! So good!
Gloria says
Your bread-baking skills are fantastic. I have never tried turmeric bread. The colour looks fantastic. A work of art.
Debra says
We loved everything about this...from the color to the texture to the taste...and of course the crunchy crust.
Jerika says
Wow! Can't wait to make this Turmeric Sourdough bread and pair it up with my favorite soup.:) Yum! Love the turmeric in it. Thanks.
Elizabeth says
Love that this recipe was turmeric! Thanks for the yummy recipe!
Mary says
This turmeric sourdough bread is so flavorful, not to mention gorgeous! Love it paired with light soups. Your sourdough recipes was the only good thing about the pandemic!
Gloria says
I have never tasted bread that contains turmeric. It sure does make a wonderful colour. I will give this a try.
Nancy says
I love all you sourdough recipes. This turmeric flavour is amazing yummy
Nicole NK says
I love the healing properties of the turmeric in this recipe! It was so easy to follow!
andrea says
Love the addition of turmeric for this sourdough bread! So good and love the extra health punch!
Elizabeth says
I so badly want to try this. I love both sourdough and turmeric so this is the perfect recipe for me!
Connie says
Great recipe- delish! This is a bread that my guests remember. Thank you for this recipe
Lynda Campbell Harris says
I made it here in New Zealand. I kept turmeric to 1 ts and that was enough. Added 1 ts cumin seed. What a lovely recipe thanks for sharing it. I'm thinking I might try without the spices next time for a plain sour dough.
Suja Manoj says
Bread looks beautiful Swathi, great idea.
rika says
That looks great! I have never tried any bread with turmeric. Can't wait to make this.
Shannon Gurnee says
I've never made sourdough bread before. I haven't tried Turmeric either, but this looks like a yummy recipe!
Beth says
I'll have to try this! My husband drinks turmeric tea to help with his Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Kathy says
This looks so amazing. Sourdough bread is my favorite type of bread. I have never tried making it before, but now I must. Yum!
Melissa Dixon says
Oh that looks and sounds so good. I really need to make some of this and serve it at lunch one of these days. My daughter would love this with a hot bowl of soup.
Ruth I says
Turmeric has a lot of benefits. I love that you made bread with it. It looks beautiful and delicious!
Cathy Mini says
This Turmeric Sourdough looks really tempting and I love that it has lot of great benefits. I am looking forward to making this recipe!
Karen Morse says
Turmeric is huge these days and I can definitely see why! It's packed with so much health benefits and it's something you can use in various ingredients as well. Although I am used to having it in tea form, this sourdough recipe looks tempting!
Pam says
I love sourdough bread. I have never had a version with turmeric in it before though. It's so pretty.
Natalie says
This looks incredible! I love sourdough bread and have recently been cooking a lot with turmeric. Interesting flavour combo I need to try!
Jeanette says
That is definitely something I need to try. I know turmeric is very healthy for you and anyway that I can have it I will try it.
Tasheena says
Your bread always turns out amazing. I've never had bread with turmeric in it before. Would love to try this recipe.
Rena says
Looks delicious sounds strange! I've never thought of Tumeric when I think of bread, but maybe you're on to something!
Terri Steffes says
The tumeric does something special in terms of color. I love sourdough. I think of it as the pioneer of breads.
Amber Myers says
Well, I know I love sourdough bread, so I'm assuming I'll like it with turmeric. I would give this a try! I love fresh bread.
Tami says
I don't want to end up with bitter bread, so I'll be I put it the correct amount. I have been trying to use turmeric more after hearing about all of its benefits.
Alli Smith says
I love sourdough bread but I've never added turmeric. I imagine the flavor is wonderful. I have to try this soon. Looks so delicious!