Sourdough Irish Soda Bread
This Sourdough Irish Soda Bread recipe is a great way to use your sourdough discard. Perfect with any soup or chili recipe!
Servings: 1 loaf
Calories: 462kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup unfed sourdough starter discard
- ½ cup buttermilk
- 1 egg
- 2 TBSP butter melted
- 2-3 cups flour
- ½ cup rolled oats
- 1 TBSP sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium bowl whisk together the starter, egg, butter and buttermilk.
- In a large bowl whisk together 2 cups flour, oats, baking soda, baking powder, sugar, and salt.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix together to form a sticky dough. (if its too dry and crumbly add a little more buttermilk, if its way too sticky add some more flour. You want it sticky but not so sticky you can't form it into a ball).
- Scrape the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead two or three times.
- Lightly flour the prepared baking sheet and place the ball of dough in the center.
- Cut a deep "X" on the top (the cuts should go at least 1/3 the way through the dough).
- Brush the top of the dough with buttermilk.
- Bake 35-40 minutes, or until the top is golden brown.
- Let cool 15 minutes before cutting.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Note: You can add in the zest of 1 orange + 1 cup dried currants for a more sweet bread loaf. You can also add in 2 TBSP of carraway seeds (but I wouldn’t do that with the currants and zest, this is an either/or situation).
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 462kcal | Carbohydrates: 89g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 555mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 3g
