Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins with Sourdough Discard

Hello. My name is Danielle and I am in my sourdough era. These banana chocolate chip muffins with sourdough discard are a result of this.

Love of Sourdough

I just realized I haven’t talked much about my love of sourdough on the blog. About a year-ish ago I started exploring sourdough (so it was during one of my blogging breaks). It would would often pop up in my fresh milled flour circles, so I decided “what the heck, let’s do this”.

Friends… it’s been crazy. My sourdough starter is named Doughthery (a nod to my grandma Dorthey who used to make the most amazing pies. Which I didn’t appreciate as much as I should when she was alive). This particular starter has only been with us since November of 23. My previous started died over Halloween when I was sick and on the couch for a week. I ended up with a very wicked strep infection and was out of commission for about a week. It was the worst I have felt in ages (and that includes when I had mastitis after Annabelle was born). Well during that time it didn’t get fed and didn’t last.

This starter as been alive since November, and hopefully it will live a long happy life.

For those of you who don’t know, when you have a sourdough starter you need to feed it (daily or weekly if kept in your fridge). When you feed your starter you discard a larger portion of it. Well, for the longest time I simple threw out the discard. Then I fell down the discard use rabbit hole. Now I save my discard and try to use it for a variety of recipes. Think muffins, cookies, pancakes. That is why I adapted my recipe to make these banana chocolate chip muffins with sourdough discard. I also have a pretty awesome chocolate chip cookie recipe that uses discard I hope to share soon.

Banana chocolate chip muffins with sourdough discard ingredients

So, what do you need to make these muffins?

Bolted soft wheat flour (if you only have all purpose flour that should work too, you may just need adjust the amount slightly)

Baking soda and powder

Brown sugar

Salt

Egg and Egg yolk

Bananas

Sourdough discard

Greek yogurt

Butter

Chocolate Chips

Now, you may notice that this recipe has only brown sugar. I tried this recipe a few different ways, and using only brown sugar was the clear winner. I was honestly surprised at how much better the muffins tasted with only brown sugar. My taste testers daughters agreed, brown sugar is the way to go.

Are banana chocolate chip muffins with sourdough discard heathier?

While I wouldn’t say these are healthy muffins, sourdough discard does have some of the same benefits of sourdough starter. That being said, these muffins aren’t long fermented (and use other forms of leavening) so you lose some of those benifts.

Even so, these banana chocolate chip muffins with sourdough discard are a tasty treat to have at breakfast or for a snack.

I hope you love these muffins as much as I do!