We love hosting dinner parties. Having friends over to cap a busy week, letting the kids run wild, and enjoying these relaxing times are sometimes the highlights of our busy weeks. One of the things that help the evening to stand out is the amazing food that’s brought to the table, especially the bread.

My friends know that I love to bake and enjoy coming over to nibble on fresh homemade bread, and I’ve recently been working on perfecting a super easy yeasted sourdough like bread that I call “faux sourdough”. With just a few hours and six simple ingredients, this bread is a crowd pleaser from start to finish. It comes out of the oven with a golden crispy crust, has a slightly sweet aroma, and a flavor that you can make as sour as you please.





This bread may also be good for the gut. As the yogurt or greek yogurt contain probiotics, it can aid with digestion and overall stomach health.

A quick note about yogurt: The yogurt will lend the bread its sourdough-like flavor. If you don’t like it too sour, just add more water to the recipe and use less yogurt. If you like it more sour, use a little less water and add more yogurt. Also, I found that greek yogurt held up a little better than the non-greek variety and made the dough a little easier to work with, but only marginally so. If you don’t have greek yogurt, don’t fret and just use regular yogurt in your bread.









In order to pull off this loaf, I recommend the following tools

Ingredients

AP Flour 500g Water 320mL Greek Yogurt 1 large tablespoon, about 30g Salt 12.5g Sugar 12.5g Yeast 5g

Process