Description
A savoury flavoured soda bread that is quick to whip up and is the perfect bread on a board alongside cheese, chutney, and cured meats. My kind of dinner!
Ingredients
Scale
- 350g plain flour
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 50g walnuts, roughly chopped
- 15cm sprig of thyme, leaves removed and finely chopped
- 100g dehydrated figs, roughly chopped
- 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 300ml buttermilk
Instructions
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- Preheat oven to 200 degrees celcius.
- Combine all the dry ingredients as well as the chopped walnuts and rosemary in a large mixing bowl. Mix to combine and pop aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine dried fig pieces with balsamic vinegar. Stir, and let the figs soak up the balsamic. Add the figs to the dry ingredients. If there is a bit of balsamic left over after removing the figs, leave it in there.
- In the balsamic bowl that we just removed the figs from add the honey to the buttermilk and give a good stir.
- Add the buttermilk mixture to the mixing bowl with other ingredients. Stir just to combine, but no more. The mixture should be quite wet and a bit shaggy in appearance. This is completely normal.
- Form the dough into a rough ball and pop onto a piece of baking paper on a baking tray (or like I do, into a cast iron frypan). Using the back of a wet spoon, gently smooth over the surface to guide it into a round, bread dough. Score the top of the dough with a large X. Brush the top of the soda bread with remenants of the buttermilk bowl.
- Pop into the oven and bake for 35-40 minutes.
- Soda bread is ready when it’s golden in colour and you get a hollow sound when you flip it over and tap on the base.