Recipes: Lizzi's Kitchen Irish soda bread

Lizzi's Kitchen Irish soda bread

Marina O'Loughlin visited Belfast and brought back this fantastic recipe from the women who set up Northern Island's first cookery school

Ingredients

  • 450g plain white flour
  • 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1 tsp sea salt flakes
  • 400ml buttermilk

    Method

    1. Heat the oven to 240C/fan 220C/gas 9. Sift the dry ingredients together in a bowl. Make a well in the centre and pour in the buttermilk. Using your hand stir the milk into the mixture starting at the centre. You want a soft but not too sticky or wet dough.
    2. Turn the dough onto a floured worktop. Knead gently and pat into a round shape. Cut a cross into the top about 2.5cm deep.
    3. Bake for 15 minutes on a lower shelf and then reduce the oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6 for about 30 minutes or till the bottom of the bread sounds hollow when tapped.

    TryScones

    Make this into scones if you prefer - cook for 20 minutes only. Soda bread is best eaten the day it is made, or toasted the next day.

    PER SERVING

    168 kcalories, protein 5,6g, carbohydrate 37g, fat 0,8 g, saturated fat 0,2g, fibre 1,4g, salt 0,84 g