Chocolate Sourdough Starter
Sourdough
Yes, you can make sourdough chocolatey! 🍫✨ Adding cocoa powder or raw cacao to your starter doesn’t just make it fun; it opens up a whole new world of baking possibilities. A chocolate starter brings deep, rich flavor to breads, pancakes, and pastries; adds natural antioxidants from cocoa; balances sweetness with gentle bitterness; and gives your bakes a beautiful dark hue. With your NutriMill Scale, Sourdough Jar, and Spurtle, measuring, mixing, and tracking are simple and precise. Once established, use it just like a regular starter, only more indulgent.
Ingredients
50 g sourdough starter (mature, active)
10 g sugar
80 g bread flour
100 g water
20 g cocoa powder or raw cacao powder
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Sourdough Jar
Spurtle
Scale
Directions
Begin with a healthy sourdough starter, keeping a portion of your “regular” starter aside as backup.
Set your NutriMill Sourdough Jar on the NutriMill Scale and press tare (zero).
Add 50 g starter, tare the scale, then add 100 g water. Stir with your NutriMill Spurtle until the starter fully dissolves.
Tare again. Add 20 g cocoa powder or raw cacao, 80 g bread flour, and 10 g sugar, mixing with the spurtle after each addition until smooth and evenly combined.
Loosely cover the jar with its lid and use the band that comes with the jar to mark the starting level.
Rest at room temperature for several hours until bubbly and risen.
When it peaks (highest rise), it is ready to bake with or to refresh for another feeding.