Sourdough Bread via Yogurt

Yogurt-Flavored Bread for Bread Machine (1300g Loaf with All-Purpose Flour)

This recipe uses some plain greek yogurt for the tang. I have an XL bread machine, so its sized for that. When you make bread by hand, its sort of self correcting because kneading the dough on a floured surface is sort of self-correcting, the dough will automatically pickup exactly the right amount of flour. Since you can't do that in a bread machine, I weigh everything in grams precisely.

Ingredients:

Water: 350g

Plain Greek Yogurt: 150g

All-Purpose Flour: 700g

Instant Yeast: 7g (Instant Yeast is better than Active for bread machines)

Salt: 10g

Sugar: 20g

Olive Oil: 30g

Instructions:

1. Add Wet and basic dry Ingredients to Bread Machine:

Pour water into the bread machine pan first.

Add yogurt.

add salt, sugar, olive oil.

2. Flour and Yeast

Top with all-purpose flour.

Make small volcano in the flour for yeast, put yeast in the volcano.

3. Select Program:

Choose the basic or white bread setting. Set crust color preference if available (medium recommended).

Because bread is very sensitive to temperature because the yeast has to reproduce I always put in about a 30 minute delay for the water and yogurt to get to room temperature.

4. Start the Machine:

Close the lid and start the machine. It will mix, knead, rise, and bake automatically.

5. Cooling:

Once done, remove the bread from the pan and cool on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes before slicing.