Use up your discard
Quick, no-fuss recipes for your discard jar.
Banana bread
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Sourdough discard banana bread with more depth of flavour than the classic version. The discard adds subtle tang that cuts through sweetness, deepens flavour, and produces a more tender moist crumb, while using up starter you would otherwise throw away. Three overripe bananas, one bowl, no mixer, no fermentation wait. Ready in under 2 hours.
200g flour · 0g discard
Banana bread (no added sugar)
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A naturally sweetened sourdough discard banana bread with zero added sugar. Sweetness comes entirely from very ripe bananas, the riper and blacker the better. The sourdough discard adds tang and depth that keeps the loaf from tasting flat without sugar. Moist, tender, and genuinely satisfying. Works for breakfast or a lunchbox, as a toddler snack, or as an everyday loaf for anyone reducing refined sugar.
200g flour · 0g discard
Discard chocolate chip cookies
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Sourdough discard chocolate chip cookies with browned butter, chewy centres, and crisp edges. The discard adds a subtle tang that deepens the flavour beyond any standard cookie recipe: complex and caramel-edged. One bowl, no mixer, no fermentation wait. Ready in under an hour.
225g flour · 0g discard
Discard matcha white chocolate cookies
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Sourdough discard matcha cookies with white chocolate and browned butter. Vibrant green, chewy in the centre, crisp at the edges. The discard adds a fermented tang that cuts through the sweetness of the white chocolate and amplifies the earthy bitterness of the matcha. Three Pantry Favourites in one recipe: matcha powder, white chocolate callets, and vanilla powder. One bowl, no mixer, no fermentation wait.
220g flour · 0g discard
Discard pancakes
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Sourdough discard pancakes that are light, fluffy, and ready in 20 minutes. The discard adds a gentle tang that makes these taste more complex than any regular pancake mix, and uses up starter you would otherwise throw away. One bowl, no mixer, no fermentation wait. The best use of discard on a weekend morning.
120g flour · 0g discard
Poured sourdough discard crackers
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The easiest cracker you will ever make: no rolling, no dough ball, no waiting. Sourdough discard, melted butter and salt become a thin, snappy cracker with a gentle tang. You spread the batter straight onto parchment and bake. One base recipe, eight ways to flavour it: flaky salt, seeds, parmesan and black pepper, French onion, Italian herb, everything bagel, tomato and basil, or furikake.
0g flour · 0g discard
