Recipe: Delicious Sourdough Onion rye bread

Sourdough Onion rye bread. Great deli-style rye bread for sourdough lovers. Making a real sourdough bread is a whole new adventure for many cooks. This recipe is fun to make, and even though it appears complicated, it really isn't.

This bred is a fall variation of a rye sourdough bread. I rarely see rye sourdough breads in the DC area, and started to bake my own, based on a "recipe" that I learned in the Bavarian Alps. Onion Sourdough Rye recipe: Try this Onion Sourdough Rye recipe, or contribute your own. You can cook Sourdough Onion rye bread using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sourdough Onion rye bread

You need 3 cups of dark rye flour.
Prepare 1 cup of whole wheat flour.
You need 4 cups of white flour.
It's 1 of medium Onion diced.
Prepare 1 cup of sourdough starter.
Prepare 4 Tsp of olive oil.
You need 4 teaspoon of salt.
You need 4 Tsp of sugar.
You need 2 Tsp of caraway seeds.
Prepare 1 teaspoon of dry yeast.

The day before you wish to make this bread, place the onions in a small bowl with the starter. This was my first sourdough rye bread so it was a real treat. It's marvelous toasted & buttered & topped w/ swiss cheese! Russian sourdough dark rye is a hearty bread meant to accompany a main-meal soup and, maybe, some chunks of pickled herring.

Sourdough Onion rye bread step by step

Mix all wet ingredients together in a large bowl..
Stir in all dry ingredients except dry yeast..
Knead the dough until smooth for about 10 minutes..
Allow the dough to rest and ferment to develop flavor for about 4~8 hours depending on your schedule..
Mix in 1 teaspoon of yeast and allow the dough to rest for about 2~3 hour until double in side..
Score the bread and bake for 50 minutes in a water bathed oven at 400F..

Or try it in a grilled cheese sandwich with Eastern European flair! Ok, I'm officially a lurker these days, reading and soaking in others' bread adventures but mostly too busy to contribute or respond. But here I grant myself an exception because I've come across a sandwich bread which is worth sharing IMHO. This dense, chewy bread with lots of onion flavor is a crowd-pleaser. My partner asked me some time ago to make her an onion bread with a twist and it is something I now bake on a regular basis.