Six-seed Soda Bread Recipe
Inspired by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's soda bread recipe, this version is made with a blend of spelt flour and all-purpose flour. The dough is littered with seeds - sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, flax seeds, and fennel seeds. It bakes into a perfect, rustic, crusty loaf of bread with relatively little effort.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 7 of 11 ingredients — the other 4 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 7 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Flour | 1 cup (125g) all-purpose | 455 |
| Sunflower Seed | 1 oz (28g) hulled | 165 |
| Milk | 1 cup (244ml) whole | 149 |
| Sesame | 1 tbsp (14g) | 120 |
| Flax Seed | 1 tbsp (10g) ground | 55 |
| Fennel | 1/2 bulb (87g) | 27 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Pumpkin | not in our table | 0 |
| Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Poppy Seed | not in our table | 0 |
| Spelt | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 tablespoons EACH sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds,
- poppy seeds, flax seeds
- 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1 3/4 cup / 9 oz / 250 g spelt flour
- 2 cups / 9 oz / 250 g unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon fine grain sea salt
- 1 3/4 cup / 14 oz / 400 ml buttermilk
- a bit of extra buttermilk/milk