Irish

Irish Brown Soda Bread

Name: Irish Brown Soda Bread
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients: 2 cups whole wheat flour; 1 cup all purpose flour; 1 tsp baking soda; 1 tsp salt; 1.5 cups buttermilk; 1 tbsp butter

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Irish Brown Soda Bread is Irish home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Easy High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1.5 cups buttermilk
1 tbsp butter

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 425F and grease a baking sheet with the butter.
Whisk the whole wheat flour, all purpose flour, baking soda, and salt together in a large bowl.
Pour in the buttermilk and mix quickly to a soft, slightly sticky dough, without overworking it.
Shape into a round loaf on the baking sheet and cut a deep cross in the top.
Bake until well risen and the base sounds hollow when tapped, about 35 minutes.
Cool on a rack before slicing, and serve alongside soup or stew.

Watch how to cook Irish Brown Soda Bread

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Traditional Irish Brown Soda Bread Play the video

Serve it with

A Irish dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Irish Brown Soda Bread, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bacon and Cabbage
  
  100 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Irish Brown Soda Bread carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Irish Brown Soda Bread
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Nothing comparable without it yet
Gluten	Yes	Champ
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 190 kcal
Protein: 6 g
Carbs: 36 g
Fat: 2 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 460 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Irish Brown Soda Bread takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.