This page is a roll-up of all our naturally leavened sourdough bread baking recipes, plus anything else we’ve managed to concoct in the kitchen. Below, you’ll find baking recipes using fruit/nut/seed mix-ins, freshly milled flour, and recipes utilizing various grains (rye flour, Sonora wheat, spelt, Khorasan, and more). If you’re looking for something very specific, use the search button in the top right of the page to get right to it. Happy baking!
Baking Guides
Head over to the Baking Guides page for in-depth guides on creating your own sourdough starter, maintaining your starter, starter storage, tips on steaming a home oven, building a dough retarder, and much more.
Sourdough Starter Creation & Maintenance
- 7 Easy Steps to Making an Incredible Sourdough Starter from Scratch
- Keeping a Smaller Sourdough Starter to Reduce Discard Waste
- How to Store a Sourdough Starter
- Sourdough Starter Maintenance Routine
- Baking Sourdough Bread with a Stiff Starter
- My Sourdough Bread with a “Young” Levain
- Managing Starter Fermentation to Produce the Best Sourdough Bread Ever
Beginner Baking Recipes
- Beginner’s Sourdough Bread
- A Simple Focaccia
- Fifty-fifty Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread
- Easy No-Knead Sourdough Bread
- Sourdough Bread with All-Purpose Flour
- Tangzhong Sourdough Sandwich Bread
- Weekday Sourdough Bread
- The Perfect Loaf Custom Flour with Recipe
Sourdough Starter Discard Recipes
- Seeded Sourdough Discard Granola (bark-like!)
- Plum Cake (Torte)
- Seeded Sourdough Discard Crackers
- Baker’s Sourdough Discard Banana Bread
- Strawberry Shortcake with Sourdough Discard Drop Biscuits
- Clafoutis (with cherries, peaches, or any stone fruit!)
- Tangy Lemon Poppyseed Loaf
- Bread Baker’s Date and Banana Tea Cake (with Whole Grain Spelt)
- My Best Sourdough Waffles
- Sourdough Starter Discard Cake: Ciambella
- Sourdough Blueberry Muffins
- My Best Sourdough Pancakes
- Sourdough Pumpkin Pancakes
- Flaky Sourdough Pie Crust
- Whole Grain Peach, Blueberry, and Lavender Sourdough Galette
- My Top 3 Leftover Sourdough Starter Recipes (Pancakes, Waffles, Banana Bread)
Cookies and Brownies
- Cinnamon Toast Cookies (Sourdough Cookies with Vanilla and Cinnamon)
- Sourdough Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- Sourdough Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Sourdough Sugar Cookies
- Fudgy brownies
Biscuits and Scones
See all the sourdough starter discard recipes →
Mostly White Flour Recipes
- My Best Sourdough Recipe
- Country Sourdough with Less Levain & Longer Autolyse
- High(er) Hydration Sourdough Bread
- High Hydration Sourdough Bread
- A Return to Basics
- Tartine Sourdough Country Loaf Bread Recipe #33
Mostly Whole-Grain Recipes
- The Best Honey Whole Wheat Bread Recipe (50% whole grain pan loaf)
- Spelt, Rye, and Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread (50% whole grain)
- Fifty-fifty Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread
- Ninety-Five Percent Whole Grain Sourdough
- Whole Wheat Sourdough (not 100%)
- Whole Wheat Sourdough Sandwich Bread
100% Whole-Grain Recipes
- Whole Wheat Sourdough Pita Bread
- Whole Grain Spelt Pan Loaf
- Honey Whole Wheat and Barley Pan Loaf
- Whole Grain Wheat and Spelt Pan Bread
- 100% Whole Wheat Sourdough
- Fresh Milled 100% Whole Wheat Walnut
Recipes with Specialty Grains
- 100% Einkorn Sourdough Bread
- Einkorn Miche
- Kamut Demi-Baguettes
- Multigrain Spelt Sourdough
- Spelt Sourdough
- Pane Siciliano (Semolina and Sesame Sourdough Bread)
- Kernza sourdough bread
Rye Flour Recipes
- Sourdough 90-Rye Bread (90% whole-grain rye)
- Light Deli Rye
- Rye Sourdough and Smørrebrød
Freshly Milled Flour Recipes
- Kernza Sourdough Bread Recipe
- Sourdough bread with 35% freshly milled flour (Yecora Rojo)
- Whole Grain Wheat and Spelt Pan Bread
- Multigrain Spelt Sourdough
- Spelt Sourdough
- Fresh Milled 100% Whole Wheat Walnut
- White Sonora Sourdough
- 50% Fresh Milled Whole Wheat Sourdough
- Baking Sourdough with Fresh Milled Flour
Recipes with Specialty Ingredients (Nuts, Seeds, and More)
- Scalded Buckwheat and Malt Sourdough Bread
- Hop Miche (Sourdough Beer Bread)
- High-fiber seeded sourdough pan loaf
- Brown rice and sesame sourdough bread
- Jalapeño-Cheddar
- Apricot and Thyme (50% whole wheat)
- Dark Chocolate-Cherry Sourdough Bread
- Green Olive and Herb
- Sunflower and Sesame Sourdough Bread
- Pumpkin Cinnamon Sourdough Bread
- Cinnamon Raisin Sourdough
- Sourdough with Roasted Potato and Rosemary (Potato Bread)
- Sour Cherry, Toasted Pecan and Buckwheat Levain
- Apricot, Lavender and Walnut Sourdough
- Seeded Sourdough
- Fresh Milled 100% Whole Wheat Walnut
- Fig and Fennel Sourdough (Plus a Little Family History)
- Natural Sourdough with Spent Beer Grains
- Golden Raisin and Fennel Seed Sourdough
- Seeded Whole Wheat Sourdough
- Walnut Cranberry Sourdough
- Tartine Olive Sourdough
- Stout Country Sourdough
- Tartine Country Sesame Sourdough
- Tartine Country Walnut Sourdough
- The Wheat Germ Experiment
Recipes with Sprouted Grains and Cereals
- Malted Wheat Sourdough Bread
- Sprouted Grain Sourdough Bread (sprouted whole white wheat)
- Sprouted Buckwheat Sourdough
Porridge Sourdough Recipes
- Soft Honey Buckwheat Sandwich Bread
- Polenta and Rosemary Sourdough
- Tartine Millet Porridge Sourdough
- Oat Porridge Sourdough
Baguettes
Specialty Bread Shapes
- Hop Miche (a large French-style loaf with beer)
- Einkorn Miche (a large French-style loaf)
- Green Olive Filoncini (Twisted Baguettes)
- Sourdough Friselle (Italian-style rusk)
- Fougasse
- Ciabatta
Buns and Rolls
- Fluffy milk bread hamburger buns (using tangzhong)
- Sourdough pumpkin dinner rolls
- Homemade hot dog buns
- Super Soft Sourdough Dinner Rolls (with Tangzhong)
- Soft Sourdough Potato Buns (great for hamburgers, as rolls)
- Brioche Hamburger Buns
Enriched and Sweet Dough Recipes
- Hot Cross Buns
- The Fluffiest Sourdough Challah
- Sourdough Chocolate Knots
- Shokupan (Japanese Milk Bread)
- Cardamom Rolls
- Sourdough Babka
- Pain de Mie (Pullman Loaf)
- Naturally Leavened Bomboloni (Sourdough Doughnuts)
- Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
Sourdough Pizza, Calzone, and Focaccia Recipes
- Sourdough Pizza Dough and Recipes (for the home oven)
- Detroit-style Pizza (Pan pizza)
- A More Whole Wheat Sourdough Pizza Dough
- Sourdough Pizza al Taglio (Rectangular Sheet Pan Pizza)
- Wood-Fired Sourdough Pizza Dough Recipe
- A Simple Focaccia
- Focaccia Pugliese (focaccia with potato)
- Calzone Recipe
- Cornmeal Skillet Sourdough Pizza
See the guide to all things sourdough pizza for more →
416 Comments
Hello!
Do you have a recipe with almond flour? Preferably without eggs.
Thank you.
Carmen
Hey Carmen! I don’t have any recipes with almond flour on the site at the moment. Though, in my cookbook, I do use it for biscotti!
https://www.theperfectloaf.com/cookbooks/
Hi Mauricio!
Hope you are well. Just thought I would check in to see if you have made any progress on a hoagie recipe?
Thank you in advance!
Shawn Brannan
YES, I have! Posting this one soon, Shawn…
Gasp. I am shocked – shocked! shocked! – that I don't see a sourdough croissant recipe here. [BTW, your book is great. We own.]
Thanks, Peter! Sourdough croissants are a certain kind of beast. I was working on them using a panettone pasta madre. Hoping to return to these soon…
Hello, I brought your book the perfect loaf and a great deal from it. A few of the recipes that I’ve tried able to find the printable version on which is easier than using the book and I don’t want to dirty my pages lol. I’m looking for the recipe for the olive oil sourdough bread that is in the book. I have checked your website and do not see it there.
Hey Raeann! Not all my recipes in the cookbook are here at the site, sorry about that! Hope you're loving my book 🙂
Hello, I bought your book the perfect loaf and have learned a lot from it. Many of the recipes I’ve tried. I’ve been able to print off the Internet just easier than using the book and I don’t wanna mess my book up. I am looking for the rosemary bread recipe and I cannot find it on the Internet or on your website help please.
any chance you will do a sourdough bread recipe with roasted garlic and rosemary? I’ve tried this three times. The first two I threw the dough away because it was soupy…I guess from adding the garlic too early and not realizing how watery it is. I thought it was just oily. Got it to sort of work the third time but it was very tough shaping and didn’t look very pretty in the end. Haven’t figured out the proper method for the inclusions.
Yes, this is on my list to tackle here soon!
I have been following you for years now and everytime someone I know begins their sourdough journey the first thing I say is subscribe to The Perfect Loaf!
The greatest gift you have given me is the conversion mechanics that enable me to turn a boulle recipe into a sandwich loaf. Sadly I've only been successful at the Rosemary Polenta bread which I spent about a year perfecting as a sandwich bread and it was well worth it. I've just made the seeded whole wheat sandwich bread and it is a joy to eat.
May I encourage you to turn some of your other recipes into sandwich breads? Frankly, while it was worth it with the Rosemary Polenta bread, I don't know if I have the gumption to do the work again for a chocolate cherry or cinnamon raisin sandwich bread, though both are breads I'd make if you did the conversion work!
So this is my nudge in that direction: More Sourdough Sandwich Breads, please!
Great suggestion here Stephen, I love sandwich/pan loaves. I have a few of these in the works, I'll get them up here ASAP 🙂