The year 2020 has changed our home cooking. As we dealt with phases of lockdowns and unlocks while working from home and schooling online, the search for healthy food options led us to experiment with cooking and baking.
In the last few months, there has been a deluge of sourdough baking posts on Facebook and Instagram. Run a #sourdough hashtag search on Instagram and you will find 3.7 million posts. Interestingly, many of them are from India, where bread is not even the staple food.
What is sourdough? Is it a new food? Not really. Sourdough is one the oldest forms of fermented food believed to have originated in ancient Egypt around 1500 BC. It was the only way to make bread until the 19th century when baker's yeast came into the market.
In India, bread making was considered to be a complicated and time-consuming process. However, during the lockdown, hesitancy to buy readymade bread, non-availability of yeast - an essential ingredient for bread making, and time to experiment led to sourdough baking and is the reason for the immense popularity of this technique.
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Love Your Sourdough? Here's Why you Should Include it in Your Diet - Quint Fit
