How To Make Simple Irish Soda Bread
This amazingly easy Irish soda bread makes a fluffy and tasty pastry with extra flavors from golden raisins, rolled oats, and dried currants.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 3¼cupsall purpose flour
- ½cupwhole wheat flour
- ¼cuprolled oats
- 1¼tspbaking soda
- 1tspbaking powder
- 1½tspsalt
- ¼cupcold unsalted butter,cut into small cubes
- 1¾cupsbuttermilk
- 1large egg
- 2tbsphoney,or more to taste
- 2tsporange zest,grated
- 1cupdried currants
- â…“cupgolden raisins
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
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Whisk all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl. Cut butter into flour mixture using a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse meal.
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Beat buttermilk, egg, honey, and orange zest together in a bowl. Pour buttermilk mixture, currants, and raisins into flour mixture; stir with a wooden spoon until a wet, sticky dough comes together.
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Turn dough out onto a well-floured work surface; press dough together into a soft ball of dough and cut into 2 pieces.
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Form each half into a smooth, round loaf. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet and let rest for 15 minutes. Cut a ½-inch deep “X” into the top of each loaf with a serrated knife.
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Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes until golden brown and fragrant. Transfer loaves to a wire rack to cool completely before slicing.
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Serve and enjoy.
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 193.39kcal
- Fat:Â 3.88g
- Saturated Fat:Â 2.14g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.12g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 0.99g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 0.37g
- Carbohydrates:Â 35.60g
- Fiber:Â 1.97g
- Sugar:Â 11.40g
- Protein:Â 5.08g
- Cholesterol:Â 20.32mg
- Sodium:Â 184.65mg
- Calcium:Â 70.43mg
- Potassium:Â 195.61mg
- Iron:Â 1.83mg
- Vitamin A: 33.42µg
- Vitamin C:Â 1.14mg
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