Oat Soda Bread Recipe

If you're looking for a healthy and tasty bread recipe, try out this oat soda bread! It's easy to make and comes together in a few minutes, so you can have it ready in no time. Plus, it's perfect for breakfast or brunch, and is a great way to get your daily dose of fiber. If you're looking for a healthy and tasty bread recipe, try out this oat soda bread! It's easy to make and comes together in a few minutes, so you can have it ready in no time. Plus, it's perfect for breakfast or brunch, and is a great way to get your daily dose of fiber.

I'm more likely to have rolled oats on hand than oat flour. So, like Jennifer, I instruct you to make your own oat flour below. But you can skip that step if you actually have oat flour in your pantry. As far as storage goes, loosely wrapped in parchment paper, this bread is great for a couple days.

Oat Soda Bread Recipe

Ingredients

• butter, to grease pan
  2 cups / 7 oz rolled oats
• 10 ounces / 285 g / ~2 ¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting and kneading
• 1 ¾ teaspoons baking soda
  1 ¼ teaspoons fine-grain sea salt
• 1 ¾ cups / 415 ml buttermilk, plus more if needed, and 2T. for brushing
• mixed seeds - sesame, caraway, poppy, etc.

Directions

• Preheat the oven to 400°F / 205°C with a rack in the middle of the oven. Butter and line a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan (or one with ~8 cup capacity) with parchment paper and set aside. Alternately, you can bake this bread without a pan, shaped like this, on a lightly floured baking sheet.

• To make the oat flour for soda bread, use a food processor to pulse the rolled oats a few times. Then process into a fine powder - another minute or two. If you are buying oat flour, not making your own, measure out 7 oz / scant 2 cups.

• Sift the flours, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl. Make a well in the flour and pour in the buttermilk. Stir just until everything comes together into a dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured countertop and knead for 30 seconds or so, just long enough for the dough to come together into a cohesive, slightly flattened ball without many cracks or fissures. If your dough is on the dry side, add more buttermilk a small splash at a time. Now ease the dough evenly into the prepared baking pan.

• Brush all over the top and sides with buttermilk and sprinkle generously with mixed seeds or flour, 2 tablespoons or so. Slice a few deep slashes across the top of the dough. Bake for about 30 minutes, then quickly (without letting all the hot air out of the oven), move the rack and the bread up a level, so the top of the bread gets nice and toasted. Bake for another 20 minutes, or until a hard crust forms and the bread is baked through. It will feel very solid and sound hollow when you knock on it. Carefully lift it out of the pan, in a timely fashion, and allow to cool on a wire rack. Enjoy with a good slathering of salted butter.

Makes one loaf.

Prep time: 10 min - Cook time: 50 min

Oat Soda Bread Recipe

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 50 mins

Total Time 1 hr

Ingredients

  

• butter to grease pan
• 2 cups / 7 oz rolled oats
• 10 ounces / 285 g / ~2 ¼ cups unbleached all-purpose flour plus more for dusting and kneading
• 1 ¾ teaspoons baking soda
• 1 ¼ teaspoons fine-grain sea salt
• 1 ¾ cups / 415 ml buttermilk plus more if needed, and 2T. for brushing
• mixed seeds - sesame caraway, poppy, etc.

Instructions

 

• Preheat the oven to 400°F / 205°C with a rack in the middle of the oven. Butter and line a 9x5x3 inch loaf pan (or one with ~8 cup capacity) with parchment paper and set aside. Alternately, you can bake this bread without a pan, shaped like this, on a lightly floured baking sheet.
• To make the oat flour, use a food processor to pulse the rolled oats a few times. Then process into a fine powder - another minute or two. If you are buying oat flour, not making your own, measure out 7 oz / scant 2 cups.
• Sift the flours, baking soda, and salt into a large bowl. Make a well in the flour and pour in the buttermilk. Stir just until everything comes together into a dough. Turn out onto a lightly floured countertop and knead for 30 seconds or so, just long enough for the dough to come together into a cohesive, slightly flattened ball without many cracks or fissures. If your dough is on the dry side, add more buttermilk a small splash at a time. Now ease the dough evenly into the prepared baking pan - see photo if you need a bit of guidance.
• Brush all over the top and sides with buttermilk and sprinkle generously with mixed seeds or flour, 2 tablespoons or so. Slice a few deep slashes across the top of the dough. Bake for about 30 minutes, then quickly (without letting all the hot air out of the oven), move the rack and the bread up a level, so the top of the bread gets nice and toasted. Bake for another 20 minutes, or until a hard crust forms and the bread is baked through. It will feel very solid and sound hollow when you knock on it. Carefully lift it out of the pan, in a timely fashion, and allow to cool on a wire rack. Enjoy with a good slathering of salted butter.

Okay, this oat soda bread was quite delicious. It had a beautiful texture and was also very easy to make. Moreover, it only took about 15 minutes for the whole process! You can also try other variations of this recipe by adding nuts or different ingredients like banana or chia seeds. But overall, the basic recipe is something you must try at least once in your life! So don’t wait any longer and get baking today!

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