Cheese & Onion Sourdough Yorkshire Pudding

A different savoury spin on the typical Yorkshire Pudding recipe with these cheese and onion sourdough starter Yorkshire pudding.

Are you tired of the same old Sunday roast? Looking to elevate your culinary skills and impress your guests? Look no further than the perfect twist: sourdough Yorkshire pudding.

Contents

• Introduction
• Ingredients
• Up Your Sunday Roast Game
• My Perfect Roast Dinner
• Discarded Sourdough Starter in Sourdough Yorkshire Pudding
• Tips for Cooking Yorkshire Pudding
• Looking for a sourdough starter?
• The Recipe
• Your Comments

Introduction

This delightful variation adds a tangy and flavourful element to your traditional roast dinner, taking it to a whole new level. Sourdough Yorkshire pudding is a unique and delicious take on the classic British dish. The sourdough starter gives the pudding a light and fluffy texture, while also adding a sourdough flavour that pairs perfectly with roast beef and all the trimmings.

Ingredients

• Milk
• Eggs
• Flour
• Sourdough Starter
• Salt
• Cheese
• Onion

You can of course make plain Yorkshire pudding without the cheese and onion. Just simply refrain from adding them to the mix.

Up Your Sunday Roast Game

It's a simple yet elegant way to elevate your Sunday roast and wow your family and friends. Not only does sourdough Yorkshire pudding taste amazing, but it's also surprisingly easy to make. With just a few simple ingredients and a bit of patience, you can create a show-stopping centrepiece for your Sunday meal. So why stick with the same old, when you can add the perfect twist with sourdough Yorkshire pudding? Get ready to impress your taste buds and transform your Sunday roast into a culinary masterpiece.

My Perfect Roast Dinner

I love a good Yorkshire pudding and this is one of those recipes that allows you go get creative and use up stuff you have left lying around in the kitchen to ensure nothing goes to waste.

The other bit I like with this recipe is that it is a really good use of sourdough starter discard. I'm not a fan of binning left over sourdough starter (the residual starter which is discarded after a feed) and so to be able to put it to good use in a recipe is something I'm keen to do.

Discarded Sourdough Starter in Sourdough Yorkshire Pudding

This recipe calls for 50g of discarded sourdough but to be honest you can be quite free and easy as to how much or little you use, it just adds the raising agent to the recipe itself. If you are really short on feed, you can add a teaspoon of baking power instead (or as well).

I have some other ideas for recipes you can use discarded sourdough for, such as making these sourdough starter crackers. Simple but effective.

Tips for Cooking Yorkshire Pudding

The best Yorkshire pudding rise occurs when cold mix hits hot fat. My method of pouring the mix into the tin is to do this by opening the oven door and sliding the tray out. Pour the mix in quickly into the tray, then get it back in the oven as fast as you can so as not to loose any heat.

Never open the oven door once cooking has started, even if they look like they have risen well. They need to cook at least 25 minutes before opening the door. If you plan to freeze these at a later date, at the 25 minute point, QUICKLY open and shut the oven door about 1 inch. This will allow a bit of steam to escape and when they come to freeze, the Yorkshires will not be soggy when re-heated.

Looking for a sourdough starter?

My starter is a San Francisco Sourdough starter and have owned it since 2020. However the actual starter the freeze dried variant came from is at least 150 years old. Take a look at my post on getting a sourdough starter, what you can do with it and how to look after one.

While I'm feeding my starter, the leftover discarded starter that I scoop out is what I use in this recipe to make my cheese and onion Sourdough Yorkshire Pudding.

The Recipe