Whole Grain Irish Soda Bread
Whole grain Irish soda bread with whole wheat flour and oats.
Almost everyone I know makes corned beef and cabbage for Saint Patrick’s day dinner, but how many of you also make Irish soda bread? It gets overlooked pretty often, but it’s one of my favorite Saint Patrick’s Day foods.
This year, I decided to try something a little different and cross my favorite soda bread (which is slightly sweet and loaded with raisins and caraway) with a traditional brown bread. The result was fantastic! Whole wheat flour gives the bread a nutty, toasty flavor and steel coat oats give it a great, rustic texture. Slathered with Irish butter and sprinkled with a touch of sea salt, it’s great with your meal or on its own for breakfast.
Irish soda bread is a quick bread – it uses baking soda instead of yeast, so you don’t need to wait for the dough to rise. It only takes a few seconds to mix up, and then about a half hour in the oven. It really couldn’t be easier!
The dough is also really forgiving. It’s pretty hard to mess up! You don’t even need a bread pan; I baked mine right in my cast iron skillet.
Whole Grain Irish Soda Bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 1½ cups whole wheat flour
- ½ cup steel cut oats
- ½ cup sugar
- 2½ teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1½ cups buttermilk
- 2 eggs beaten
- 2 tablespoons butter melted
- 1 cup raisins
Instructions
- Heat oven to 425ºF. Grease the bottom of a 9 inch round baking pan or oven proof skillet.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the flours, oats,, sugar, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the buttermilk, eggs, and melted butter. Mix until just combined. Stir in the raisins.
- Form the dough into a boule and place on the greased pan. Use a serrated knife to cut an "x" into the top of the bread. Bake 30-40 minutes, or until golden brown and cooked throughout.
Irish soda bread is one thing I’ve never made before! Love the recipe!!
Fabulous! Best looking soda bread I’ve ever seen!
This looks delicious- I’ve actually never made my own soda bread! Definitely need to do something about that!
This is such a gorgeous loaf of bread! I love that you crossed it with brown bread. Can’t wait to try this!
Such beautiful bread! I’ve never made it before but I think I should. Also, I LOVE that coffee cup – it is gorgeous!
I love your recipe for Irish Soda bread! Fantastic and easy to follow!
This soda bread looks amazing, like the fact that there is oats and whole wheat flour in the mix.
G’day! What a healthy alternative re Irish Soda bread! YUM!
Love Irish Soda bread!!!
Cheers! Joanne
Such a lovely, healthy loaf! I think a slice of this and a big bowl of stew would go very well together! I’m suddenly starving. 🙂
This looks delicious. I have never attempted it and I don’t really have an excuse now because I seems so easy to make!