Homebaked bread fast food(on soda)
Homemade gray bread with oatmeal and prunes
I made this simple and delicious soda bread following a classic Irish Soda Bread recipe. I just ran out of all the bread and there was nothing to make a sandwich with and just have a bite to eat with something tasty. I decided to bake Irish bread again.
Of course, quick soda bread is not at all like frivolous purchased baguettes, rolls and loaves. It is noticeably heavy, full of life and excellent taste. One piece of it weighs significantly more than the same slice from an industrial loaf.
Today's recipe differs from traditional soda bread with just the addition of prunes and a small amount of rolled oats and sugar. But you can do without them, although the rolled oats add a stunning embossed texture to homemade bread. Therefore, if there is a house oat flakes be sure to put it in. Very tasty.
I made soda bread with 2 types of flour: wheat and rye. It turned out homemade brown bread. But if you have only ordinary flour (wheat) at home, then you can bake bread only with it.
Bread on soda is very fast, it takes less than an hour to cook. It takes 5 minutes for the dough, another 45 for baking.
Composition of soda bread
for 2 round loaves
- Wheat flour - 3 cups;
- Rye flour - 3 cups;
- Hercules (oatmeal) - 0.5 cups;
- Sour-milk drink (the Irish have buttermilk, I took kefir) - 2 cups (500 ml in total);
- Soda - 2 teaspoons;
- Salt - 2 teaspoons;
- Sugar - 4 teaspoons;
- Prunes (you can raisins or dried apricots, nuts) - a large handful.
1 glass = 250 ml. But if you have glasses of a different volume (200 or 300 ml), just count as glasses (and kefir, and flour, and oatmeal), the proportions will be preserved. Salt-sugar-soda take, as in the recipe. Flour can be taken only wheat, if there is no rye (6 glasses).
How to bake soda bread
1. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C
2. Knead the dough on soda for bread
- Mix all types of flour and oatmeal.
- Mix kefir (you can take yogurt, buttermilk or other unsweetened fermented milk drink) with salt and sugar. Add soda. Mix and quickly combine with flour.
- Add prunes (but not required). Knead the dough so that it becomes homogeneous, not sticky to your hands.
3. Form bread for baking
- Divide the dough into 2 parts, roll them into balls. If the prunes stick out, then push them into the dough (it must be inside so that it does not burn when baking bread).
This time I baked homemade bread on a silicone mat (greased vegetable oil) - very comfortably.
4. Bake soda bread
- Put the koloboks on a baking sheet (dust with flour, or line with baking paper, or use a silicone mat). Cut across. Bake bread on the shelf of the oven, which is above average, the temperature is the first 30 minutes = 220 C, Then 15 minutes = 180 C.
Soda bread is very easy to prepare - no bread machine is needed! A simple oven is enough.
How to cool and store soda bread
- Immediately cut and eat the finished bread, putting butter on the slices (you can add jam, in general - super!). Hot soda bread is the best. But if you store it, cool it under a towel, then store it in a tightly closed plastic bag (so as not to get stale).
Bon Appetit!
Slice of homemade gray bread with prunes - simple and delicious!
About options for replacing flour, possible proportions for oat bread (the same thing, but more oatmeal, it’s better not to add rye, but just take regular flour), what buttermilk is and what else it can be replaced with, what bread on soda is served with in Ireland, I'll tell later.
Homemade bread can be baked in another way: by buying ready mix(including for bread machines), which bakes easily and quickly!
If you put butter on hot bread, it will melt and it will be VERY tasty!
But such a beautiful soda bread was prepared by Boris Lutsyuk. What a fine fellow! It feels like it was made by men.
Boris Lutsyuk's homemade soda bread Bread baked by Boris Lutsyuk Soda bread from Boris Lutsyuk
And this is bread on soda, cooked by Katerina Davydova from home rye flour with the addition of seeds. She says that the liquid, in this case, was not enough, she added another 0.5 cups of warm water. Indeed, different flour has different properties, therefore, you can add water (but it is better to add yogurt, kefir or sour cream, or milk), making up for the lack of liquid. The dough turns out to be quite thick and plastic, suitable for making bread out of it.
What kind of bread did Katerina turn out into. I think it's very tasty!
Soda bread is very popular in many countries because it does not take much time to prepare. This bread was especially widely used in Ireland.
Benefit and harm
Yeast-free baking is a safe food product that does not harm the body. But only baking at home has this property.
Store-bought yeast-free bread also does not contain yeast, but some yeast cultures (in other words, wild yeast) are still present in it, since it is necessary that the product be lush. Therefore, to obtain real soda bread, only unleavened dough is used.
So what are the pros and cons of Irish bread? TO useful qualities bread can include:
- Irish bread with wholemeal soda promotes rapid weight loss;
- bread contains a large amount of fiber, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates;
- helps to improve the functioning of the digestive system.
The disadvantage of Irish bread is that if it is consumed in excess, the acid processes in the body are disturbed. Besides, people who are overweight should eat bread with caution- with excessive use, the opposite effect may occur, the weight will not decrease, but increase.
Irish bread spoils quickly, so it's best to eat it the same day.
Irish Bread - Background
The traditional recipe for Irish soda bread was created by poor people who baked it daily. The minimum preparation time and the ingredients used have made it a staple food for poor families. V holidays some cherries, sugar or herbs were added to the bread.
The mistresses of Ireland, before planting bread in the oven, made cross-shaped cuts on it. There was a belief that such an amulet drives away evil spirits from family members. But some historians believe that the incision began to attach such importance far from immediately. At first, an incision was made on the bread so that after baking it could be easily divided into pieces.
Round bread is more often baked in the southern regions of Ireland. In the north of the country, soda bread was made in the form of a disk, which was cut crosswise into 4 parts and fried in a pan. In the poorest families, who had neither a stove nor a frying pan, the housewives baked bread in cast-iron pots, which were hung over burning peat.
Irish soda bread in a slow cooker
Already developed a huge number soda bread recipes for cooking in a multicooker.
We will need the following components:
- flour (better than coarse grinding) - 2 cups;
- oat flakes - 1 tablespoon;
- sugar - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - 1 teaspoon (without a slide);
- butter - 50 grams;
- kefir - 1 glass;
- soda - 1.5 teaspoons without a slide;
- nuts, seeds - optional.
First, in a deep bowl, combine all the dry ingredients - cereal, flour, sugar, salt, soda, move well. Soften butter and add to a bowl, pour in kefir. Then knead the dough. It is not necessary to knead for a long time, the dough should become soft.
Lubricate the multicooker bowl butter. The dough is distributed in an even layer in the bowl, cuts can be made on top of the bread. The slow cooker is set to the “Baking” mode and bread is baked for 35 minutes.
At the end of the process, the bread is pulled out, the crust is smeared with butter and wrapped in a towel. Once the bread has cooled, it can be eaten.
Irish soda bread with currants
Another interesting recipe cooking soda bread - with currants. Would need:
- flour - 3 cups;
- kefir - 1 ¾ cups;
- sugar - 2/3 cup;
- butter - 2 tablespoons;
- baking powder - 3 teaspoons;
- currant - ¾ cup;
- salt - 1 teaspoon without a slide;
- soda - 1 teaspoon (without a slide);
- egg - 2 pcs.
Sift flour through a sieve, add baking powder, salt, sugar, soda to it; add currants. Melt the butter, beat the eggs and add to the flour. Then pour in kefir. Knead the dough. The consistency of the dough should resemble biscuit.
Lubricate the form with butter and distribute the finished dough in it. Heat the oven to 180°C and bake bread in it for an hour. You do not need to immediately remove the finished bread from the mold, it is necessary that it cools completely.
Irish Soda Bread by Darina Allen
Darina Allen offered her own version soda bread recipe which is quite simple. To prepare it you need:
- whole grain flour - 1 1/3 cups;
- plain flour - 2/3 cup;
- salt - 1 teaspoon, without a slide;
- baking soda - 1 teaspoon, without a slide;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil (sunflower or other) - 1 tablespoon;
- honey, molasses or brown sugar - 1 tablespoon;
- buttermilk - 1 2/3 cups, add as needed;
- sunflower seeds, sesame seeds - optional.
First you need to preheat the oven to 200°C.
Sift flour, add salt and soda to it. Beat the egg lightly and mix with flour. Then the rest of the ingredients are mixed in - honey, buttermilk, oil. Knead the dough thoroughly. If the dough is tough, add more buttermilk until the dough is soft. Ready dough slightly sticky to hands.
The mold is greased with oil, the dough is distributed in it. Sprinkle the top of the bread with sesame seeds or sesame seeds. Bake for 45-60 minutes, the readiness of the bread can be checked with a toothpick. Before serving, the bread is cooled to room temperature on the grid.
- First, the dry ingredients of the dough are mixed, and only then the liquid ones are added.
- If the bread is planned to be baked in a bread machine, then the laying of the ingredients should take place in the sequence provided for by the model of the bread machine.
- Buttermilk can be replaced with kefir or cream.
- The oven is always heated to 180-200 ° C.
- If the crust of bread turned out to be tough, then it is smeared with butter.
- Bread is served slightly warm or cold.
- The shape can be any - round, rectangular or in the form of a loaf.
- You can add nuts, seeds, sesame seeds, flax seeds, coriander or dried fruits to the recipe.
I bake this white soda bread when I really need bread at home, but there is absolutely no time for yeast bread. It is done very quickly, but it turns out very tasty, crispy and fragrant. Soda bread is popular among many nations, but I took the Irish recipe as a basis. The flour in this recipe can be whole grain, which makes the bread coarser but healthier, but it's also a traditional variation on soda bread. An important point in this recipe is to choose a baking dish, it can be a saucepan, a deep frying pan or a stewpan, the main thing is that it can be closed with a lid and put in the oven.
Ingredients:
- 450 g baking wheat flour
- 300 ml buttermilk (liquid yogurt, kefir, curdled milk or any other fermented milk product)
- 0.5 tsp salt
- 0.5 tsp soda
Bread making
Turn on the oven and preheat it to 200 degrees. While the oven is preheating, make the dough. To do this, sift the flour into a large bowl and mix with baking soda and salt.
Make a well in the center of the flour and add the buttermilk.
Knead the dough with a mixer or by hand. The dough is quite soft and easy to knead. However, the dough should not be too soft, so add a little more flour if necessary.
Sprinkle a board with flour, put the dough on it and form a ball with your hands. Flatten the ball a little, to a thickness of about 4 cm, so that you get such a plump circle.
With a very sharp knife, and preferably with a blade, make cuts crosswise, to a depth of about one centimeter. The cuts should be deep, then they will open well and beautifully.
For baking, you need a heat-resistant pan with a lid with a diameter of about 20 cm, no less, and a height of 7-8 centimeters. I use a heat-resistant glass pan, it can withstand temperatures up to 230 degrees well. The main thing: do not expose glassware to temperature shock. While the oven is preheating, the pan is on the stove and warms up a little, so the bread turns out best. Sprinkle the bottom of the pan with flour and put the dough blank into it. Cover the pot with a lid.
Place the pot in the oven and bake on medium for about 45-50 minutes, until the soda bread has risen and is a nice golden color. Remove the pan from the oven and let stand for five minutes, then open the lid, remove the bread and cool it on a wire rack. If you leave the bread in the pan, it will become damp, and there will be no crispy crust.- White soda bread turns out dense, with a small porosity, with a soft crumb and a delicious crispy crust.
