Bacon and Spring Onion Soda Bread
Moist, tasty soda bread, delicious with hummus or soup.
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Servings: loaf
Equipment
- 1 450g (1lb) loaf tin lined with baking paper
Ingredients
- 140 g wholemeal flour (not bread flour)
- 140 g all-purpose flour (not bread flour)
- ½ tsp salt
- 1½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 50 g finely chopped spring onions
- 50 g diced pancetta or bacon
- 240 ml buttermilk or whole milk/yoghurt with 1 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 230 °C.
- Sieve the bicarbonate of soda, flour, and salt in a large bowl.
- Add the bacon and spring onions. Rub into the flour until it is thoroughly coated and mixed. This is important to make sure they are evenly distributed.
- Add the buttermilk and with one hand pull the mixture together. Keep adding buttermilk until you have a scraggy soft dough. Dont overmix it.
- Fill a lined loaf tin with the dough. With a wet knife, make a slash down the centre of the loaf, which helps the loaf cook evenly.
- Once the buttermilk is added, work quickly - the reaction with the bicarbonate of soda has started!
- Bake immediately for 15-20 minutes - then turn the oven to 200 °C. Bake for another 20 minutes - cover with foil if it starts to brown too quickly. The bread is ready when the base is tapped and sounds hollow.
- If you would like a cheesy topping - add a handful of grated cheese to the top of the bread 10 minutes before it has finished cooking.
