Sourdough pumpkin bread with pumpkin seeds

Today’s recipe is this amazing sourdough bread with a distinct color and taste of pumpkin pulp and pumpkin seeds. Crunchy crust and pumpkin seeds enrich this homemade sourdough bread.

Sourdough pumpkin bread with pumpkin seeds

Flavourful and super orange homemade sourdough pumpkin bread with pumpkin seeds.

Course bakery

Cuisine lactose free, vegetarian

Keyword easy sourdough bread, homemade bread, homemade sourdough bread, pumpkin, sourdough bread, turmeric

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 50

Total Time 1 5

Servings round loaf

Calories 111kcal

Ingredients

150 g liquid sourdough starter refreshed minimum 24 h before
100 g wholemeal flour
500 g strong bread flour
1 tsp honey
1 generous tsp salt
340 g pumpkin puree
250 ml water
60 g pumpkin seeds
1 tsp turmeric powder optional
0.5 tsp dried rosemary

Instructions

Instructions: Sourdough pumpkin bread with pumpkin seeds

Mix 2 flours then add pumpkin puree and 250 ml of water. Mix and set aside for 1 hour to let the flour absorb all the moisture (autolysis). Meanwhile, take 150 g of your liquid sourdough starter (my was 80% hydration) and leave it out of the fridge to bring it back to room temperature.
Add liquid starter and honey to the flour mix and work the dough for about 8 minutes by hand or in stand mixer fitted with a dough hook. Then add salt and knead again until incorporated. Combine pumpkin seeds, rosemary and turmeric (for a more lively color and a taste that goes well with the pumpkin) and knead until they are well incorporated (about 2 minutes).
Transfer the dough into a lightly greasy bowl. Let it rise for 3 hours performing the stretch and fold technique every half an hour.
After this time move the dough onto a flat surface and create a loaf. Place it in a basket dusted with some durum wheat flour (or another type of flour) and let it rise until it doubles the volume (it took me 4 hours). The rising times are approximate, it can take more or less time depending on the temperature of the environment, the freshness of the yeast, the strength of the flour and other factors not related to the recipe.
Gently transfer your basket into the refrigerator and let the dough rest for 12 or more hours.

Sourdough bread baking time

After this time, preheat the static oven at 250 °C together with the baking tray on which you will bake the bread or (me) along with the cast iron pot suitable for baking in the oven. Once the oven is really hot, move the dough from the basket on a floured cutting board, engrave the bread surface and slide it gently directly onto the hot tray or move it over some baking paper and put into the cast iron pot and then put the lid on.
Lower the temperature to 200 °C. Bake in the pot with the lid on for 30 minutes and then without the lid for 20 more minutes. Or directly on the baking tray for about 50 minutes, sprinkling with the water the bread surface every 5 minutes for the first 15 minutes of baking.