White soda bread with cheese
By: Rachel Allen From: Rachel's Favourite Food...
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- Prep time:
- 15 mins
- Cook time:
- 20 mins
- Serves:
- 8
This cheese encrusted soda bread by Rachel Allen is stunning served with bowls of extra virgin olive oil and coarse sea salt for dipping
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Alternatively use grated Parmesan cheese instead of Chedder.
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp Olive oil
- 450g plain flour
- 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp Salt
- 125g Cheddar cheese
- 400ml Buttermilk
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 220C/gas 7. Brush a baking tray generously with olive oil.2. Sieve the plain flour and the bicarbonate of soda into a big bowl, add the salt, 50g of the cheese and mix together with your hands.
3. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients and pour in most of the buttermilk. Spread the fingers of one hand out like a claw and together in a full circle. Add enough of the remaining buttermilk to make a soft dough. Do not knead the mix, but work it very gently to bring together.
4. Place the dough onto a floured surface and roll out to about 35 x 20cm. Transfer the rolled dough to an oiled baking tray, brush the top with some more oil and sprinkle with the remaining cheese. Bake for 18-25 minutes, turning the oven down to 200C after 10 minutes. When cooked the bread should be a golden brown colour and feel firm in the centre. Transfer it to a wire rack and cool for a couple of minutes, then cut it into squares and serve.
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View all comments (4)It looked and tasted great. I am going to try it after a few hours to see how the freshness holds.
Nice texture and cheesy.
Took about 22 minutes
Mine took much longer than the 18-25 mins stated, might be a type, needs a good 45 mins really.
Easy to do and so tasty. Can't keep my hands off it
surely 35\20cm cant be right for the size of this bread?