I’ve never made regular bread, with yeast. It all sounds very laborious and time consuming and I just don’t have the time for that kind of thing. But soda bread is SO freaking easy and quick you’ll want to make it all the time.
I gather that soda bread often has buttermilk as an ingredient, but here’s a wonderful vegan recipe. And I’ve made it lots, it’s great!
- Preheat oven to 210 oC, preferably with an pizza or bread stone heating in the oven (you could probably use a baking tray if you don’t have one)
- Makes 3 buns
- 250g flour (I’ve used wholemeal, spelt and granary, all with great success)
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 175ml unsweetened soya milk/other non-dairy milk
- 1 and 1/2 tbsp soya yogurt
- 1 and 1/2 tsp sugar
- Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together
- Separately, mix together the milk, yogurt and sugar
- Add wet to dry and mix
- Put the mixture onto a floured surface, put flour on your hands and give the dough a quick knead to make it come together properly (no need to knead it in the way you would “normal” bread)
- Divide into 3 balls
- Flatten and press some seeds in the top (sunflower, poppy, pumpkin, sesame)
- Cut deep crosses into the top of each bun
- Bake for around 15-20 minutes
Here’s my granary buns before baking:
And here they are after baking:
This bread is quite dense, but really nice. It’s best to eat it within 24 hours of making it, because it can go quite hard if you leave it. But it’s so easy to make that you can throw it together at short notice and then you’ll want to eat it all because it’s so lovely fresh out of the oven.
Jen The Vegan 