Recipe: Yummy Buckwheat Sourdough Starter

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Buckwheat Sourdough Starter. This Buckwheat Sourdough starter is a gluten-free sourdough starter that tastes just as great as its wheat-containing brethren! Using a buckwheat sourdough starter gives you a nutritious as well as tasty way to make gluten-free breads, pancakes, crepes, cornbread, waffles, tortillas, and many other treats. Hope you'll like the buckwheat flour sourdough recipe below.

I didn't keep up with the starter after a while (I'm the only one who likes buckwheat cakes around here), but recently made the starter again, this time with the idea of using it.

Since gluten free grains tend to be more expensive than regular grains, I used less buckwheat to create my starter than I normally would.

It may take a little longer for your gluten free sourdough starter to take off and really start to get bubbly, especially if you use buckwheat.

You can cook Buckwheat Sourdough Starter using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Buckwheat Sourdough Starter

  1. It’s of raisins.

  2. You need of boiling water.

  3. You need of buckwheat flour.

Discarded sourdough starter can be composted, fed to chickens, or used to make other sourdough goodies - like gluten-free sourdough crackers with herbs and cheese!

At first sight, this enigmatic sprouted buckwheat sourdough spurs the question every time: "What kind of bread is this?" The deep dark fissures and a slight gray cast are a prelude to what this bread is all about.

A touch of sweetness, slightly sour, earthy, and creamy—a concert of flavors and textures in this sprouted buckwheat sourdough.

Break up sourdough starter in the water.

Buckwheat Sourdough Starter step by step

  1. DAY 1 - Soak the raisins in the boiling water, leave them to soak until the water has cooled until it is tepid (just above room temp is fine). Then strain the raisins out of the water..

  2. In a glass bowl or large jar (I used a large bowl), place 40g of buckwheat flour and 80mls of your tepid raisin water and mix to form a paste. Cover with cling film and leave in a warm spot for 24 hours. Reserve your raisin water for day 2..

  3. DAY 2 - Whisk in another 40 g of the buckwheat flour and 55mls of your raisin water (warm it very slightly if you can for max yeast growth oomph). Cover again and leave for 24 hours..

  4. DAY 3 - Whisk in a further 75g buckwheat flour and 115 ml of your raisin water. Cover and leave to ferment for a further 24 hours..

  5. DAY 4 - Hopefully today you will start to notice a mild vinegar like smell and you may see some large surface bubbles. Discard half your mixture (dont throw it out - you can make pancakes, crackers and even cookies with this discarded batter). Then whisk 75g buckwheat flour and 115 ml of raisin water to your starter. Cover and leave to ferment for 24 hours..

  6. DAY 5 - Whisk in your remaining 155g of flour and add 225 ml of regular tepid water. Cover loosely and set aside for 4 hours of until really bubbly. Then store in the fridge for a final 12 hours before using..

I've even made them with half chickpea or buckwheat flour.

Watch How To Make A Gluten Free Sourdough Starter And Get The Recipe.

Buckwheat has a very unique flavour and aroma and is a great addition to add depth to your baking.

Unfortunately, buckwheat flour does not form gluten so baking with it can be a challenge.

Scalding the buckwheat flour before adding it to the dough allows you to add a much higher percentage of buckwheat to the loaf while still getting a nice.