Sticky-hands vegetable soda bread
This easy, no-knead, no-prove bread has vibrant flecks of colour thanks to a generous handful of carrot and courgette. Expect to get messy, sticky hands as you make the dough – it’s all part of the experience!
- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 50 g carrot, shredded ((1¾ oz) )
- 50 g courgette, shredded ((1¾ oz))
- 400 ml buttermilk (the thick kind) ((14 fl oz))
- 1 medium free-range egg
- 350 g self-raising wholemeal flour ((12 oz))
- plus 50–100g (1¾–3½oz) for dusting
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
Instructions
- 1
Preheat the oven to 220C (400F), 200C fan, Gas Mark 6. Line a 500g (1lb) loaf tin with nonstick baking paper.
- 2
Grab 2 bowls, and tip all the wet ingredients (carrot, courgette, buttermilk, egg) into one, and the dry ingredients (flour and bicarbonate of soda) into the other.
- 3
Mix each bowl well.
- 4
Form a well in the middle of the dry ingredients, then pour the wet ingredients into it. Mix until well combined.
- 5
Dust your work surface with the extra flour and tip the dough onto it. Gently form the dough into a sticky rectangle, just firm enough to hold its shape and place in the prepared tin.
- 6
Score some 1cm (½ in) deep lines in the top and bake for 50–60 minutes.
- 7
To test if the loaf is baked through, take the loaf out of the tin and tap on the bottom to see if it sounds hollow. Leave to cool inside the tin with a clean tea towel over the top (this helps to soften the crust a little).