Homemade soda bread is a rather unusual, tasty, and most importantly, healthy dish. Moreover, it is prepared quite quickly and simply. Further in the material will be given several interesting recipes for Irish soda bread with various fillings.
Oatmeal Baking
This is one of the most common options for such a dish. To prepare it, you need to prepare the following products:
- one tablespoon of medium-fat milk;
- a tablespoon of lemon juice;
- crushed oatmeal in a volume of one and a half cups and a quarter;
- the same amount of wheat flour;
- half a teaspoon of soda (do not extinguish with vinegar);
- a quarter teaspoon of salt.
The method of making soda bread
In order for the product to turn out tasty and aromatic, it is necessary to strictly observe the proportions indicated in the instructions. As mentioned earlier, Irish oatmeal soda bread is made quite simply and does not take much time.
The recipe itself looks like this:
- Grind oatmeal with a coffee grinder.
- Add milk and a quarter tablespoon of salt to the resulting flour. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients to a homogeneous consistency. After that, cover the dishes with the mixture with a towel and leave for two hours.
- At the end of this time, heat the oven to 175 degrees.
- Sprinkle with flour the form in which soda bread will be baked.
- Next, in one bowl, combine the above amount of flour, baking soda and previously prepared oatmeal mixture. After that, mix the dough until a uniform mass is obtained.
- Now quickly form a test com. In no case do not knead it, otherwise soda bread will turn out tough. Perform all further actions also quickly.
- At this stage, you need a lump to quickly shape the future loaf, make several cuts with a knife in the shape of crosses.
- Place the workpiece in the previously cooked form and place in the oven. Bake for half an hour.
- After the end of the cooking time, the bread must be left in the form so that it finally fits. After that, it can be cut and served.
Cheese Bread Recipe
Another interesting and very tasty option for the preparation of this baking. The following is a list of products to use:
- a pound of wheat flour;
- one hundred grams of parmesan cheese;
- 50 grams of Gruyere cheese;
- a small handful of pumpkin seeds;
- 300 milliliters of kefir with a fat content of three percent;
- 60 milliliters of milk;
- two teaspoons of soda;
- half a teaspoon of sea salt.
Baking recipe
Further detailed instructions will be given on how to properly prepare Irish soda bread on kefir with soda and cheese. All actions must be performed strictly in the specified order:
- Set the oven to warm up to 180 degrees.
- At this time, pass both types of cheese through a coarse grater.
- Then in one cup or in a combine combine the indicated amount of soda, half a kilogram of flour and pour everything with kefir.
- Now gently beat the contents, in the process gradually pour the milk and add the cheese.
- Continue mixing the ingredients until a uniform consistency is obtained.
- Sprinkle the pan immediately with the flour in order to prevent the pastries from sticking.
- Once you have the dough, form a lump out of it and carefully place in the prepared dishes.
- As in the previous recipe, make an incision in the shape of a cross on the upper side.
- After that, grease it with the remaining milk and sprinkle with pumpkin seeds;
- Now place the pan in the oven and bake bread for forty minutes.
- At the end of cooking, leave the finished product infused for ten minutes.
- After cooling, it can be cut and served.
Kefir soda bread
This recipe is a bit complicated and some may not succeed the first time. In order not to translate the products, the following dosage should be strictly observed:
- half a kilogram of flour with bran;
- a tablespoon of wheat flour;
- 50 grams of raisins (if you do not like it, you can exclude it from the recipe);
- fifty grams of sunflower seeds;
- a tablespoon of sesame seeds;
- 450 milliliters of kefir of one percent fat content;
- a teaspoon of soda;
- teaspoon of sea salt.
Recipe
In order not to spoil the baking, you must strictly follow all the steps that will be indicated below. Here is a detailed list of them:
- First, set the oven to warm to a temperature of 200 degrees.
- Pass the flour along with the bran through a sieve.
- Add soda and salt, mix until all ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Dry the seeds of sesame and sunflower in the oven.
- At the same time, pour kefir into the mixture and begin to mix well.
- Once the dough is ready, cover it with a towel and remove the dried seeds.
- Now soak the raisins for five minutes (if you use it in cooking), then squeeze.
- Next, put it together with the grains in the dough and again begin to knead until all the ingredients are evenly distributed.
- Sprinkle with flour the form in which Irish soda bread will be baked, and then place the prepared loaf there.
- As in the other recipes, make an incision with a cross on the upper side, sprinkle with flour and send to the oven.
- Cooking takes 45 minutes.
If you did everything right, then you should get a tasty dish.
Soda and Water Bread Recipe
This is a lean version of the dish. But at the same time, it has a pleasant taste and beneficial effect. To prepare it, you must use:
- 300 grams of wheat flour;
- 200 milliliters of water;
- a teaspoon of soda, slaked vinegar;
- a tablespoon of sesame seeds;
- two tablespoons of pumpkin seeds;
- two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
- the same amount of raisins;
- three tablespoons of bran;
- half a teaspoon of salt.
How to cook?
As in other cases, in this recipe for soda bread, you must strictly follow the instructions. It is given below:
- Put raisins in a cup and pour hot water.
- At this time, slightly fry the sesame seeds and pumpkin seeds in a frying pan.
- Next, sift the flour through a sieve.
- Divide the processed cereals into two parts: the main and half a glass for further mixing.
- Pour the indicated amount of bran into a large one, pour in all the water (200 milliliters) and put out the baking soda with vinegar.
- Now add vegetable oil to these ingredients and start kneading the dough (if necessary, add the previously set aside part of the flour).
- At the end of the process, add pumpkin seeds, squeezed raisins and sesame there.
- If necessary, add the rest of the flour, the final consistency should be soft and elastic.
- Now again sprinkle the form in which you will bake the bread with flour.
- Form a lump from the dough, make an incision with a cross on the upper side and carefully place in a baking dish.
At the beginning of cooking, the oven should be heated to 200 degrees. Cooking time is 50 minutes.
Recipe for device
Next, consider the option of cooking a healthy version of soda bread without yeast. We will bake in the bread machine. To do this, you need the following set of products:
- 320 milliliters of kefir with a fat content of three percent;
- a teaspoon of soda and salt;
- two teaspoons of vegetable oil and the same amount of sugar;
- a pinch of seasoning from a mixture of herbs;
- 400 grams of flour.
How to cook such bread?
It is noteworthy that when baking this option, you do not need to use leaven or beer (given that you are working with dough without yeast).
In order not to spoil the taste and texture of the finished product, you must strictly follow all the steps in the instructions below. In particular, all products must be loaded into the dishes strictly following the specified procedure.
The following ingredients will suffice:
- First, install a special screw in the device’s container to mix the components and prepare the dough.
- Now pour in kefir and pour baking soda.
- After that you need to add sugar and salt (strictly in the specified order).
- Next, seasoning is mixed with herbs.
- Then pour in the vegetable oil.
- Sift flour through a sieve and add it to the container last.
- Now put the dishes with the ingredients in the bread machine and set the necessary program (the option for yeast dough is suitable or you can install the “bread” program).
- Make all the necessary settings, indicating the weight (approximately 750 grams) and the degree of crustiness of the crust (medium), close the lid, activate the "start" button.
Now you just have to wait until the device kneads the dough, after which it starts baking. Bread should be tasty and fragrant.