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Simple ways to use up sourdough starter — discard blueberry muffins, lemon crinkle cookies, pretzel bites, cheddar crackers and Sunday pancakes for busy weeks.

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Sourdough Discard Blueberry Muffins

Sourdough Discard Blueberry Muffins

A delicious recipe for Sourdough Discard Blueberry Muffins - a great way to use up some of your sourdough discard for a tasty breakfast!

25 min220 cal4 g proteinServes 1258 saves
maleah gaineymaleah gainey

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 6 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1.5 tsp orange or lemon zest
  • 3/4 cup sourdough discard
  • 2 tbsp non-dairy or regular dairy yogurt
  • 1.5 cup blueberries
  • 2 tbsp turbinado sugar

Instructions

  1. 1Preheat oven to 375°F and line a 12-cup muffin pan with muffin liners*. Set aside.
  2. 2In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Set aside.
  3. 3In a large bowl, use a hand-held blender on medium speed to cream together the softened butter and granulated sugar until light and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing in between each. Mix in vanilla extract and orange or lemon zest.
  4. 4Mix in sourdough discard, then 2 Tablespoons yogurt. Fold the dry ingredients into the batter mixture and stir until no dry spots remain. Fold the blueberries into the batter until just combined.
  5. 5Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin liners, filling each cup about ¾ full (a cookie scoop works well for this!). Sprinkle with turbinado sugar and bake for 22-25 minutes until golden brown. Let the muffins cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool fully.

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That Jar of Starter Deserves Better

If you keep a starter going, you know the guilt of pouring discard down the drain twice a week. It's flour and water that already did some work, and it makes muffins tender, crackers snappy, and pancakes tangy in a way plain batter never gets.

Cooks on Pepper reach for these on feeding day, when there's a cup of discard sitting on the counter and about an hour before anybody's hungry. They're also the recipes that show up on Saturday mornings and in lunchboxes.

Every recipe here starts with that jar: Sourdough Discard Blueberry Muffins, Lemon Crinkle Cookies, Pretzel Bites, Blueberry Bagels, an herb and cheese loaf, Cheddar Cheese Crackers, Cheese Bread, and three takes on pancakes and waffles.

Quick Tips

  1. 1

    Bring discard to room temperature

    Cold discard straight from the fridge makes lumpy batter. Set the jar out 30 to 45 minutes before you mix.

  2. 2

    Don't overmix the batter

    Stir muffin and pancake batter just until the flour disappears, about 10 to 12 strokes, so they stay tender.

  3. 3

    Roll crackers paper thin

    Roll the cheddar cracker dough to about 1/16 inch and bake until the edges brown, or they'll turn out soft instead of crisp.

  4. 4

    Rest pancake batter briefly

    Let sourdough pancake batter sit 15 minutes before the first pour so the baking soda and starter can work together.

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