Strawberry Sourdough Bread with Almonds and Camembert
This Strawberry Almond and Camembert Sourdough Loaf is loaded with strawberry flavor, perfect pieces of camembert cheese and crunchy chopped almonds. It has a nice crusty crust, a chewy texture, and awesome flavor!
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I wanted a huge strawberry flavor, so used both strawberry puree and diced strawberries in the dough.
We really love how this bread turned out! It had a nice crusty crust, a chewy texture, and awesome flavor! I was worried the cambert would melt into the bread, but they ended up perfect!
Slices of this strawberry sourdough bread are awesome toasted, slathered with fresh butter and sprinkled with a little cinnamon and sugar! I bet they would have been awesome as french toast, too!
Recipe Note: This is a lower hydration dough, meaning it has more flour than water in it. The dough needs to have some weight to it to hold the mix-ins, and to account for the extra water in the strawberries. This bread will yield a denser loaf, so don’t expect large open holes like you would get in a higher hydration dough.
How to make sourdough bread with strawberries:
This recipe is very simple to make! Here is a brief overview of the recipe to give you an idea of how it works. For the full set of directions and measurements, please make sure you scroll down to the recipe card below!
Mix the levain.
- The night before baking, mix together the starter, flour, and water for the levain in a bowl.
- Cover with plastic wrap and a towel and allow to sit in a warm spot overnight.
Make the dough.
- Mix together the levain, flour, water, salt and strawberry puree and allow to rest for 20 minutes.
- On a lightly floured counter, stretch out the dough into a long rectangle-ish shape.
- Sprinkle the diced strawberries, nuts and cheese evenly across the dough, and fold/roll the dough over top (which ever method you want to do this is fine, you just need to get it in there).
Proof and Stretch and Folds.
- Place the dough in a large oiled bowl, cover, and allow to rest for 1 hour.
- Stretch and fold the dough, place back in the bowl and allow to rest for 1 hour.
- Make another stretch and fold, place back in the bowl, cover, and place in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next morning, pull the dough out of the fridge and place in a well floured couche.
- Allow the dough to proof and come to room temperature.
Bake the bread.
- Preheat the oven to 500 F and prepare for your steam.
- While the oven is preheating, dump the dough out onto a floured parchment paper and score.
- Place the bread in the oven and turn the oven down to 450.
- Bake for 15 minutes, then remove the lid if you are using one.
- Bake another 10-20 minutes, until nicely golden brown.
- Cool for at least 1 hour before slicing.
Note: The temperature and humidity of your house can affect how long it takes your sourdough starter and breads to become active and proof. Please watch the dough and not the clock to ensure your bread is properly proofed.
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Strawberry Almond and Camembert Sourdough Loaf
Ingredients
Levain:
- 3 ounces starter
- 5.25 ounces water
- 8 ounces flour
Final Dough:
- all of the levain
- 9.25 ounces flour
- 3.25 ounces water
- 4.75 ounces strawberry puree
- 3.25 diced strawberries
- 1.75 ounces chopped almonds
- 3 ounces camembert cheese chopped roughly
- 0.125 ounces salt
Instructions
- The night before baking, mix together the ingredients for the levain and let sit on the counter.
- Mix together the levain, flour, water, salt and strawberry puree and allow to rest for 20 minutes.
- On a lightly floured counter, stretch out the dough into a long rectangle-ish shape.
- Sprinkle the diced strawberries, nuts and cheese evenly across the dough, and fold/roll the dough over top (which ever method you want to do this is fine, you just need to get it in there).
- Place the dough in a large oiled bowl, cover, and allow to rest for 1 hour.
- Stretch and fold the dough, place back in the bowl and allow to rest for 1 hour.
- Make another stretch and fold, place back in the bowl, cover, and place in the refrigerator overnight.
- The next morning, pull the dough out of the fridge and place in a well floured couche.
- Allow the dough to proof and come to room temperature.
- Preheat the oven to 500 F and prepare for your steam.
- While the oven is preheating, dump the dough out onto a floured parchment paper and score.
- Place the bread in the oven and turn the oven down to 450.
- Bake for 15 minutes, then remove the lid if you are using one.
- Bake another 10-20 minutes, until nicely golden brown.
- Cool for at least 1 hour before slicing.
Wow..wow..wow!! The minute I saw this on Pinterest..I was like..Pin first or leave a comment? lol I LOVE IT! It's gorgeous! The best part is it's fruit, nuts AND cheese in a beautifully crusted/crumbed sourdough loaf! I want to make a thinly sliced turkey sandwich with it now! I'm so glad you baked with us..finding the time in between so many challenges. I'm low motivation the past few months, but I will be joining in with you girls a lot more when I get over it. xo
BEAUTIFUL bread and really love the flavor combination. I am a sucker for any thing with cheese. I hope to join you baking something sourdough. I think it's a lovely idea!! Thank you so much for baking with Twelve Loaves, Jenni! xx
This sounds absolutely divine…the cheese definitely puts it over the top. I think it only fair if you are joining us in #TwelveLoaves that you have to send us each a loaf. OK? Pretty please?
Camembert and strawberries: what a great idea. I like both of them, in particular camembert.
Wow, Beautiful loaf of bread! Strawberries, nuts and cheese, sounds so delicious! I think that I would eat it just as it is!
The bread has such a neat colour!
Wow – what a delicious combination of flavors you chose for this. It looks amazing and I bet it tasted even better!!
Looks amazing. Love the combination of flavors!
What an incredible flavor combination!
Super creative bread! The combination is perfect with the fruit and camembert. Love it!
hello! stopping by from the twelve loaves challenge – what a wonderfully unique idea! 🙂
Oh my GOSH. Another amazing loaf! This is inspiring me to use my sourdough starter more often… Wow.
I’ve never seen sourdough bread recipes in ounces? Do you have this recipe in grams? I would like to try it. Thank you.
Love to bake up new bread recipes and this one was absolutely fantastic! It came out great! My family and I ate up the loaf so fast!
Oh wow, this looks so delicious. My family is going to devour it!