Making bread using an Instant Pot® may seem a little strange at first until. I mean baking crusty bread in a pressure cooker just doesn’t sound possible. Well, the baking part might not work out in the Instant Pot® but what does is making a fantastic, flavorful dough. By using the yogurt button on the Instant Pot® and placing the bread dough inside for several hours, the dough ferments and a fantastic sourdough is formed. If you know a little about sourdough bread, then you know that some “sours”, as they are called, are decades old. Sourdough bread is made using pieces of these old, flavorful sours that have aged and developed their unique flavor overtime. But we don’t have time to age a sour for years and years, we want sourdough now! And by using the Instant Pot®, you will get a quick yet amazingly tasty sourdough bread in a fraction of the time.
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Instant Pot® Sourdough Bread
Equipment
- Instant Pot
- Measuring Spoon
- Measuring Cup
- Dutch Oven
- Medium bowl
- Parchment paper
Ingredients
- 3 Cups Bread Flour
- 1.5 tsp Salt
- 0.75 tsp Dry Active Yeast
- 1 cup Plain Greek Yogurt
- 0.5 cup Water
Instructions
- Begin by mixing the dry ingredients in a medium sized bowl or just using the Instant Pot® metal liner as your bowl.
- Add the yogurt and water and stir together. Once the dough begins to form, use your hands to knead it into a smooth ball.
- Line the Instant Pot® metal liner with a piece of parchment paper and place the dough ball in the center of the paper. Place the lid on the Instant pot and close, making sure the steamer valve is set to “seal”. Press the Yogurt Button and set the timer for 4 hours.
- Open the Instant pot and remove the proofed sourdough from the bowl, discarding the parchment paper. Give the dough a few quick kneads and then place into a floured bowl. Cover and let sit for 45 minutes
- While the dough is resting (also called ‘proofing’), preheat your oven to 450 degrees F. Place the dutch oven inside the oven as it preheats. You want the dutch oven to be very very hot in order to create a nice crust on your bread as it bakes. Once 45 minutes has passed, your dough should be ready and your dutch oven should be nice and hot as well. Carefully lift your dough out of the bowl and place it in the dutch oven. Place the cover on the dutch oven immediately (this will help get some steam inside to make the crust on the bread form) and put it inside the preheated oven.
- Bake the bread for 30 minutes and once baked, remove from the Dutch oven and let cool on a wire rack. Allow your bread to cool completely before slicing!
How did the flavor of this sourdough compare to one with century old sours? Pretty darn good right?! Thanks Instant Pot® for making that flavor happen! If you have any sourdough questions before you start cooking, leave them in the comments below and we will answer ASAP!
Going to try this using 1 cup sourdough starter instead of sour cream.
Did it work?
In the process of baking now we will see how it goes but very excited for this “quicker” method!
I wasnt sure what yogurt setting to use on my Instapot since it gave me 3 options so I choose custom and looked online for the temperature yogurt should be (around 110 degrees) set it and put it at 4hrs…so we will see how that goes. Praying it works!
Oops. Just discovered that hubby ate all the Greek yogurt. Does it HAVE TO BE Greek? I have another plain probiotic yogurt in the fridge…will that do? Fingers crossed….
I don’t have a Dutch oven and don’t bake enough bread to warrant purchasing one… Kind of hoping the baking won’t be impacted by that.
I’ve done sourdough from starter and know how to bake it well using my pizza stones and other forms of hydration (my fave is a pan lined with ice cubes put in the oven at the time of baking). Sound good…? Here’s hoping!
I love it. I love it. I love it. I now add different spices like sage, dill and flax. I can’t wait to experiment with other ingredients. Don’t know why I didn’t do this earlier. I guess having the instapot makes all the diff. Great recipe. Deliciouso.