Sausage roll made from sourdough

Here is bread baking for my husband ' s birthday..... Sausage rolls.

This is the Japanese style buns, the sausage stuffed in bread. 

If you heard '' the sausage rolls '' , you might imagine the puff pastry roll stuffed with sausage meat or beef mince. It is common '' sausage roll '' here, in New Zealand as well. 

I added the recipe Japanese style sausage rolls before. 

This recipe is different shaping, the dough is not buttery, no instant dry yeast, made from sourdough. 

Sausage rolls made from sourdough

(make 5)

Sourdough starter

100g bread flour

100g water

Sourdough

200g bread flour

6g salt

100g water

sourdough starter

5 sausage

wholegrain mustard and tomato sauce (optional)

Egg wash

Egg + water

1. Make sourdough. Once the dough become double size, fermented over night, transfer the dough on the floured bench. 

2. Divide it into 5 pieces. Round each piece of dough into rough ball. Cover it to avoid drying out. 

3. Let it rest for 20 - 30 minutes until the dough become loose. 

4.On the floured surface bench top, roll it out with rolling pin, make it sausage long oval shape. 

Put the apply the mustard and tomato sauce if you want. Put the sausage.

Make the cuts with the dough cutter around the sausage. 
(Can see where to cut ? I forgot to take photo of it.  )

Cover the sausage from the top left piece. And the right, left right, left...continue until the end. It looks the braid.

5. Let it rise with the cover for 1 hour or until it becomes bigger size.
6. Preheat oven for 200c.
Brush the egg wash.
Bake it for 20 - 15 minus until it becomes golden brown. 

Bacon Epi

Pain d' Epi bread is known as the wheat stalk shape twisted baguette bread.   

In Japan, we created '' Bacon Epi ''  that is Epi shaped baguette rolled with the slice of bacon.

That is my husband's favorite, he asked me to make it so many times. I was busy for my little baby, I didn't have enough time for baking.
Now he got birthday. I decided to make bacon epi for his birthday present.

I got recipe Bacon onion cheese epi, here.
That is cheesy bacon rolled in buttery dough with instant dry yeast.

This is simple bacon epi recipe, bacon rolled in sourdough. Crispy crust, full of savory bacon flavor in your mouth.

I skip writing how to make sourdough ''dough'' .

Bacon Epi make 4

Sourdough starter

flour 100g 

water 100g 

Sourdough 

flour 200g 

salt 6g 

water 100g 

sourdough starter 

4 slice of Bacon

 (you need cut into smaller if the bacon slice is too long. )

Egg wash 

egg +water or milk

1. Make sourdough. Once the dough became double-sized, fermented over-night, transfer the dough on the floured bench.
2. Divide it into 4 pieces. Round each piece of dough into rough ball by pulling the edge of the center.  Cover it to avoid drying out.
3. Let rest it for 20 - 30 minutes until the dough become loose.

4. On the floured surface, roll it out with the rolling pin. Make it 18 - 20 cm oval shape. (Cut the slice of bacon into smaller if it is bigger than the oval shape.)
Put the bacon on the dough.

Roll it down, seal it tightly. Put sealing side bottom on the baking tray.

5. Place it into warm place (30c) with cover to avoid to drying out.  Rise it for 1 hour until it becomes bigger size.
6. Preheat the oven 200c.
7. Forming it into Epi shape.
Cut the dough on 3/4 with the scissor. Don't cut it off completely.

Slide this piece on left, cut, slide it right, cut, slide it left.... continue to cut and slide until you have reached the end.

8. Brush egg wash, bake it 20 - 25 minutes at 200c until it becomes brown.

Homemade coconut butter

Have you ever heard coconut butter before?

I make my own nuts butter at home such as peanut butter, almond butter and macadamia nut butter....

One day, I found a jar of coconut butter at the organic store. I never seen coconut butter. I was wondering what the different from coconut butter and coconut oil.

I looked up the internet, I searched how to make it.

Coconut oil is 100% oil that has been extracted from coconut meat.

Coconut butter is coconut flesh that has been ground into paste.  It includes all the fat, fiber and nutrients from the coconut.

It seems super easy to coconut butter. It is like peanut butter.
At the organic shop, the jar of coconut butter is $13.
If you make own, you can grab a 200g desiccated coconut for $2 at the supermarket.  That is all ingredient!!!

1. Load the coconut flakes into food processor. Turn the machine on.
2. Using a food processor, this processor will take 8 - 10 mins.  You need to be patience. Stop the machine and scrape the sides down with a spatula a few times. Continue until the coconut has turned to coconut butter and is softened and store it in a jar. 

3. Place it in the cool place. My coconut butter became hard like butter in the room temperature. If you want it soft and creamy, warm it up and melt it. 

Banana and date sourdough muffin

I found many muffins taste too much baking powder.  Even when I make muffins from self-rising flour, I can taste it.  That is why I don't like muffins. I can eat it, but I cant finish it every time.

This muffin recipe is not fluffy texture because it is naturally rising by sourdough starter. No rising agent.

No butter. I use canola oil so that is easy to eat.

Less sugar. It contains brown sugar but not too much. Sweetness from banana and date.

50g plain flour
100g wholemeal flour
50g brown sugar

1 egg
30cc oil
60cc milk
2 mashed banana
100g sourdough starter

100g chopped date


1. Prepare to grease spray oil on the muffin tin.
In a bowl, combine dry ingredients together.
2. In another bowl, whisk egg and canola oil well. Add milk and mashed banana, then combine well.
3. Add sourdough starter. Combine well.
4. Add wet mixture into the dry ingredients bowl. Mix well with the spatula. Fold in the chopped date.
5. Preheat the oven at 180c.
Fill the mixture into the tin. Bake it for 20 - 25 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Vegan Raw Date Slice

I was having long break with this blog.

I had so many things going on.
I had a baby, and moved to Tauranga.

I finally settle down,  and I stay home and look after my daughter.
I become a stay-home baker : )

I used to be a baker at the cafe, it was necessary to make vegan baking.
This is not baking recipe, but it is super easy to make.
No sugar, raw, vegan.

Vegan Raw Date Slice

5 Cups chopped Date
2 Cups slivered Almond
1 Cup pumpkin seed
1 tbl spoon of ginger powder
1 cups cocoa powder
2 cups water

4 cups desiccated coconut

27cm x 18cm x 4cm baking tray put baking paper on.

1. Soak the date for 2 hours.
2. Soak the for 30 minutes.
3. Drain date and almond well.
4. In the food processor, blitzs the almond and pumpkin seed together for few seconds.
5. Add date, ginger, cocoa and water, and blend it until smooth.
6. In the bowl, fold the mixture and desiccated coconut until well combined.
7. Transfer the mixture into the tin. Sprinkle extra desiccated coconut.
8. Set it in the fridge for over night.

Cocoa and white choc batard

This is a kind of No-knead bread recipe.

I made it 70% water formula, but it was quite stiff because of cocoa powder. I edit recipe 75% water.

It taste strong cocoa flavor. It match with peanuts butter and raspberry jam. 

Cocoa and white choc batard

200g Strong white flour 

15g Cocoa powder

4g Salt 

2g Dry yeast

150cc Lukewarm water

30g White chocolate chips

1. In a large bowl, combine bread flour and cocoa powder well. Add salt, yeast and water. Stir it with a spatula until blended. Cover the bowl, and let it rise at room temperature.

2. After 30 minutes, fold the dough. And another 30 minutes, fold it again.

3. Let it rise in the fridge. Approximately 6- 8 hours.

4. Take it out from fridge and let it warm up at the room temperature for 30 minutes.

5. Transfer the dough on the floured surface.
Pat the dough. Sprinkle over white chocolate chips. Shape it into batard shape.

6. Let it rise on the cloth and cover it at warm place for 30 minute.

7. Preheat the oven at 200C with the baking tray.

8. Take out baking tray from the oven. Sprinkle flour on it. Transfer the dough on it. Score it.

Bake it 15 - 20 minutes at 200C with steam.

Sourdough Hot X buns

The other day, I got fresh pears from the weekend market. I made pear cider and got wild yeast. 

I started make sourdough starter with the pear wild yeast. I kept to feed flour and pear cider. 

Now I made Hot cross buns with it. 

The pear sourdough starter has fruity aroma. It match with dried fruits. 

Hot cross buns 

200g Sourdough starter (100% mature-hydration)

150g Bread flour

50g wholemeal flour

1 tea spoon cinnamon 

1/2 tea spoon all spice

1/2 tea spoon of ginger ground

40g Sugar

5g salt

25g Egg

70cc lukewarm milk

30g unsalted butter (soften)

150g Saltana

Egg wash

Cross

30g flour 

35cc water

1. In a stand mixer bowl, combine flour wholemeal, salt, sugar, spice. Add egg and milk, sourdough starter. Knead it with the dough hook for 8 minutes until it becomes smooth. Add extra flour if it is too sticky. Add soften butter and knead it until butter is combined. Add saltana, and knead it until saltana is evenly Incorporated into the dough. 

2. Transfer the dough into the oil coated bowl with plastic wrap cover. Let it rise for over night until it becomes double size. 

3.Prepare baking pan. Put baking paper or apply oil. 

 Transfer the dough on the floured counter. Deflate it briefly, and divide it into even 9 peaces. Make them ball shapes. 

4. Transfer them into the baking pan. Put the cover. Let it rise until it becomes double size. 

5. Preheat oven 200 degrees.  

Mix flour and water to make cross. 

Brush egg wash on the dough. 

Wrap the mixture with plastic wrap. Make a small hole with the pick.   Squeeze out and make cross line on the dough. 

6. Bake it for 20 - 25 minutes. 

7. Cool it down.