Best Sweet Corn Sourdough Bread Recipe

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I found some corn flour in the pantry. And sourdough bread is very easy to make. So I decided to mix the two and create a corn sourdough bread recipe that I wanna share with you all.

Best sweet corn sourdough bread recipe

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Best sweet corn sourdough bread recipe

Corn Sourdough Bread

  • Total Time: 15 hrs 10 mins
  • Yield: 2 small loaves or 1 big loaf 1x

Ingredients

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  • 100 g corn flour
  • 100 g hot water
  • 400 g white wheat flour
  • 230 g water
  • 80 g active rye sourdough starter
  • 10 g fine sea salt

Instructions

  1. In the evening (day before baking), first mix 100 g of corn flour with 100 g of hot water. Set aside to cool a little bit.
  2. When corn flour has cooled down, dissolve 80 g or your active rye sourdough starter into 230 g of water. Add 400 g of white wheat flour and cooled corn flour. Mix by hand until all ingredients come together. Cover the bowl with kitchen cloth and let the dough rest for 30 minutes. This rest is called ‘autolyse’.  Observe how the dough becomes more extensible after the rest. Letting your dough to rest after mixing it is a great option if you don’t know how much water your flour absorbs. You can start with less water, let the dough rest and then see if you need to add more water.
  3. An active rye sourdough starter looks bubbly and it has risen (doubled in volume) since the last feeding. I fed my sourdough starter in the morning of that day.
  4. Add 10 g of salt and squeeze it well into the dough.
  5. Knead the dough for 5 minutes or until you see the dough is stretchy and it doesn’t tear and then transfer it to a clean bowl. Cover the bowl with a piece of cling film or a kitchen cloth and let it rise overnight until (almost) doubled in volume. It took 11 hours for my dough to double because my kitchen was quite cold. If you would like to speed up the fermentation, add more starter or place a bowl in the warm place (oven).
  6. In the morning, the dough looked like in the photo below.
  7. Next, use your plastic dough scraper and take the dough out of the bowl. Sprinkle it with flour and divide it into two parts or leave it as it is if making one big loaf.
  8. Pre-shape the dough into a ball, flour it and cover it with a piece of cling film. Let it rest for 10 minutes. If the surface is tearing, your dough is over-proofed.
  9. In the meantime, prepare your rising basket. I like to line my rising basket with a kitchen cloth. Make sure your basket is well floured so the dough will not stick to it when taking it out.
  10. After 10 minutes have passed, shape your loaf. Dust the dough again and turn it upside down. Spread it with your fingers a little bit and then first fold the upper part of the dough over the middle. Turn the dough for 180° and repeat. Then, fold the upper half over the lower half and pinch well. Make sure to create some tension while folding.
  11. Transfer your loaf to a rising basket and dust it with flour. Cover it with the rest of a kitchen cloth and let it rise until it gets large in volume and when it passes a poking test.
  12. You will know your dough is fermented if the indent you make with your finger springs back slowly and not all the way back. If the indent springs back quickly, leave the dough to rise longer. It took my bread 3 hours to be fully fermented.
  13. At least 30 minutes before baking preheat your oven to the maximum temperature of your oven along with Dutch oven or a baking stone. I used Dutch oven.
  14. When the oven is preheated, take the loaf out of the rising basket and transfer it to Dutch oven. Score the loaf and put your Dutch oven into oven.
  15. Bake the loaf for 20 minutes with the lid on at 240°C/465F°F and 20-25 minutes with lid off at 230°C/445°F and until bread gets nice golden color.
  16. Cool on a cooling rack before cutting for at least 1 hour – this is the hardest part.
  • Author: Natasha Krajnc
  • Prep Time: 14 hrs 45 mins
  • Cook Time: 25 mins
  • Category: bread

I was really looking forward to this year’s winter solstice which for me is a real new beginning, a real start of the new year. You could sense the natural calmness and the strength at the same time that day, something that I goal for in 2015. And days…they are finally starting to get longer again.

There wasn’t much sun this winter and I feel as my soul and heart have been longing for the sun warmth and the expanding energy of the light for too long. So, at least I could do was to find a decent substitute – to feed my soul and to expand my heart. I found some corn flour in the pantry and that was it – my sunrise of this winter. Although I am allergic to corn, I like how it brings the sweetness and the yellowness into the bread.

Best sweet corn sourdough bread recipe

Sourdough bread is very easy to make, all you have to do is to recognize the readiness of  your fermenting dough before moving to the next step (shaping or baking). If you let it rise too long, your bread won’t have enough strength to fully rise and can even collapse after scoring, and if your leave your dough rise not enough time, the crumb will be tight and dense and the crust of your bread will be pale.

For this corn sourdough bread, I mixed the dough in the evening, let it rise until doubled in volume in the morning, preshaped it, shaped it, let it rise until doubled in volume again and until having passed the poking test, then baked it and let it to cool down. If you can’t bake in the morning, you can mix the dough in the morning, let it rise until afternoon, then shape it , let it rise again and bake in the evening.

Corn Sourdough Bread

Ingredients

Yields: 2 small loaves or one big loaf

  • 100 g corn flour + 100 g hot water
  • 400 g white wheat flour
  • 230 g water
  • 80 g active rye sourdough starter
  • 10 g fine sea salt

Instructions

  • In the evening (day before baking), first mix 100 g of corn flour with 100 g of hot water. Set aside to cool a little bit.
  • When corn flour has cooled down, dissolve 80 g or your active rye sourdough starter into 230 g of water. Add 400 g of white wheat flour and cooled corn flour. Mix by hand until all ingredients come together. Cover the bowl with kitchen cloth and let the dough rest for 30 minutes. This rest is called ‘autolyze‘.  Observe how the dough becomes more extensible after the rest. Letting your dough to rest after mixing it is a great option if you don’t know how much water your flour absorbs. You can start with less water, let the dough rest and then see if you need to add more water. An active rye sourdough starter looks bubbly and it has risen (doubled in volume) since the last feeding. I fed my sourdough starter in the morning of that day.
  • Add 10 g of salt and squeeze it well into the dough.
  • Knead the bread dough for 5 minutes or until you see the dough is stretchy and it doesn’t tear and then transfer it to a clean bowl. Cover the bowl with a piece of cling film or a kitchen cloth and let it rise overnight until (almost) doubled in volume. It took 11 hours for my dough to double because my kitchen was quite cold. If you would like to speed up the fermentation, add more starter or place a bowl in the warm place (oven).
Best sweet corn sourdough bread recipe
In the morning, the dough looked like in the photo.
  • Next, use your plastic dough scraper and take the dough out of the bowl. Sprinkle it with flour and divide it into two parts or leave it as it is if making one big loaf.
  • Pre shape the dough into a ball, flour it and cover it with a piece of cling film. Let it rest for 10 minutes. If the surface is tearing, your dough is over-proofed.
  • In the meantime, prepare your rising basket. I like to line my rising basket with a kitchen cloth. Make sure your basket is well floured so the dough will not stick to it when taking it out.
  • After 10 minutes have passed, shape your loaf. Dust the dough again and turn it upside down. Spread it with your fingers a little bit and then first fold the upper part of the dough over the middle. Turn the dough for 180° and repeat. Then, fold the upper half over the lower half and pinch well. Make sure to create some tension while folding.
  • Transfer your loaf to a rising basket and dust it with flour. Cover it with the rest of a kitchen cloth and let it rise until it gets large in volume and when it passes a poking test.
Best sweet corn sourdough bread recipe
  • You will know your dough is fermented if the indent you make with your finger springs back slowly and not all the way back. If the indent springs back quickly, leave the dough to rise longer. It took my bread 3 hours to be fully fermented.
  • At least 30 minutes before baking preheat your oven to the maximum temperature of your oven along with Dutch oven or a baking stone. I used Dutch oven.
  • When the oven is preheated, take the loaf out of the rising basket and transfer it to Dutch oven. Score the sourdough loaf and put your Dutch oven into oven.
Best sweet corn sourdough bread recipe

Check the video I made below to see the preshaping, shaping and scoring part of the recipe.

  • Bake the loaf for 20 minutes with the lid on at 240°C/465F°F and 20-25 minutes with lid off at 230°C/445°F and until bread gets nice golden color.
  • Cool on a cooling rack before cutting for at least 1 hour – this is the hardest part.

If you have any question or a thought, leave a comment below, I’d love to hear from you.

Happy, healthy and sunny new year to everyone – whenever the beginning of your new year is!

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FAQs

Can you make sourdough starter from corn?

Yes, it is possible to make a sourdough starter from corn. However, the process may differ slightly from making a wheat-based sourdough starter. Corn-based sourdough starter may have a different texture and flavor than wheat-based starters. It may also take longer to become active due to the lack of gluten in corn flour compared to bread flour.

Can you use cornmeal in sourdough starter?

Yes, you can use cornmeal in a sourdough starter. Cornmeal (or corn meal) is simply coarsely ground corn, and it can be used in place of whole-grain corn flour in a sourdough starter recipe. Using corn meal in the sourdough starter may result in a coarser texture and a stronger corn flavor in the final baked goods. Additionally, as with any sourdough starter, it may take a few days for the starter to become active and ready for baking.

By Natasha Krajnc

Hi! My name is Natasha and I'm specialized in home sourdough bread baking and currently based in Slovakia - a very small country in Central Europe. My bread baking story began in 2011 when I decided to give up commercial yeast. I felt tired all the time (especially after eating bread and other foods made with yeast), I wasn’t motivated to do anything, had trouble concentrating throughout the day, my abdomen was bloated and I was like a trumpet on steroids – basically, I was quite a wreck. I was a big bread lover (and still am) and having to stop eating bread was quite hard at that time but I felt I was on a right way to give my body a chance to heal itself.

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