You might also like these recipes for a classic vegan challah and vegan whole wheat challah. If you have a pot of sourdough starter sitting around, here’s a great way to have it and eat it too: my Vegan Eggless Sourdough Challah. Just like its French cousin, the brioche, the challah has always fascinated me. It’s an extraordinary bread: delicate, tender, delicious, but it also relies quite heavily on eggs for flavor and texture, making it a bit of a challenge for the vegan baker. I know many of my readers share my passion for sourdough, not only for the wonderful flavor it imparts to breads, but also for its great probiotic benefits. It is especially wonderful in this challah, where it imparts depth of flavor without adding any sourness. The challah is an elegantly sweet bread, and the flavor in these loaves is just as it should be. I went through a couple of trials with this recipe, producing bread that was delicious, but either didn’t hold its shape very well after baking, or didn’t have that great color. With this recipe, everything turned out just perfect (although my challah shaping skills do need more work). Check to get new recipe updates by email.
The bread rises quite a bit in the oven, thanks to the sourdough, so as always while baking with sourdough, be prepared for a pleasant surprise when you pull it out of the oven. Happy baking!
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