Simple yet delicious soda bread that can be ready and edible in under 1 hour!
Bread
Baking bread from scratch can sometimes be daunting, or down right petrifying to some people – but this recipe makes you realise truly how easy some bread recipes can be!
I have already put up recipes for honey & oat bread, and granary bread but I thought that something like soda bread where there is NO KNEADING and there is NO PROVING would make some people happy AND it only has 6 ingredients!
Soda bread
When I first started baking many many years ago, I never even thought to bake my own bread – I would always stick to the sweet stuff! But after going to cookery school and baking so many different types of bread I lost count, and realising how easy it can be if you stick to it, be patient and follow a recipe, I can’t stop baking bread at home!
This recipe I find creates a delicious flavour, and is so unbelievably easy that I have questioned why there isn’t freshly baked bread in my house every day. It is so simple with only 6 ingredients needed and those 6 ingredients are items that are readily available at supermarkets everyday, making it the perfect quick and simple bread recipe!
Savoury baking
It is no secret that I love savoury baking! I love the flavours, I love experimenting and it all tastes so delicious! I have made pizza rolls, cheese scones, ham leek and mushroom quiche and many more – there is a savoury recipe for everyone on my blog!
Serve
This recipe for soda bread is a perfect all round crowd pleaser. You can use it for a delicious deli style sandwich, served buffet style with lots of meat and cheese or it tastes delicious as toast with some butter and jam. When I made the particular loaf in my photos, I slathered a slice with butter and sprinkled some sea salt on the top – HEAVEN! The bread was still slightly warm too so its a wonder how I didn’t eat the whole loaf! Enjoy!
Soda Bread!
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Ingredients
- 500 g plain flour
- 100 g porridge oats
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tbsp honey
- 500 ml buttermilk or 490ml milk and 2 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 200C/190C Fan/400F and line a baking tray with parchment paper, dust lightly with flour.
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Sift the plain flour into a large bowl and put in the salt, porridge oats and bicarbonate of soda in too, mix together briefly with your hands
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Pour in the buttermilk and the honey into the flour mixture and combine with a spatula or fork until a dough forms – it shouldn’t take too long
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Bring the final bits together with your hands as lightly as possible until it forms a dough (don’t be too harsh on it!)
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Keep on mixing and once the dough is formed, form it into a ball shape and put it on the baking tray
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Slash the top of the dough quite deeply into a cross and bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes (Can take up to 40 minutes depending on the oven) until the bottom of the bread sounds hollow when tapped and the bread is nicely brown all over
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ENJOY!
Notes
- This bread is best served and eaten on the same day of baking, but it will last a couple of days, it might just need refreshing in the oven if it goes a bit hard!
- You can try different flavoured flours such as using wholemeal flour for example, but I always have plain flour in the cupboard, so it’s my go-to recipe.
- It serves beautifully with a buffet lunch style with meats and cheese, or a Sunday Lunch, or even sweet stuff such as morning toast and jam (my Dad’s favourite)!
ENJOY!
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