Ingredients
1 cup wholemeal flour
plus extra for dusting
1 cup spelt flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp sea salt
2 cups buttermilk
plus extra for brushing
75g butter
softened
1 tsp lemon thyme leaves
1 tsp parsley
finely chopped
1 green onion
very finely chopped
Allergy Advice
Contains Dairy
Contains Gluten
Equipment
- 1 baking tray
- 1 baking paper
- 1 large bowl
- 1 work surface
- 1 chopping board
- 1 spoon
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (180°C). Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- To make the bread, combine the flours, bicarbonate of soda and salt in a large bowl.
- Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in the buttermilk. Stir until the mixture has come together into a sticky dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and knead the dough, which is quite wet, then shape it into a smooth-ish ball.
- Place the dough ball on the lined baking tray. Brush the top of the dough with extra buttermilk and score a few deep slashes across the top.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until golden-brown on top and hollow sounding when you tap the bottom.
- To make the herbed butter, place the butter on a chopping board and smoosh out to a thin patty shape with the back of a spoon.
- Place the lemon thyme, parsley and green onion on top of the butter patty and bring all of the ingredients together a few times with the spoon until well incorporated.
- Serve with the warm soda bread.
Notes
Tip
The dough is quite wet and sticky, so be prepared for messy hands!
Variation
If you don’t have spelt flour, you could substitute rye flour or extra wholemeal or plain flour.
