Made with buckwheat flour and wholemeal flour, this Rosemary and Sundried Tomato Buckwheat Soda Bread requires no kneading or waiting for bread to prove. For this simple bread recipe all you have to do is mix, shape, bake and serve! We have flavoured our buckwheat Irish soda bread with fresh rosemary, chopped sundried tomato olives and garlic.
This is the best soda bread ever, I've been looking for ever for a good recipe. I've tried loads. This is the best. Light tasty I can now make sandwiches... Fabulous bread
Susan, a JCO reader, Oct. '17
Easy & Quick Buckwheat Irish Soda Bread
This soda bread made with buckwheat flour is dense and crumbly yet so soft. It has a perfect dark crust giving the bread a gorgeous rustic finish - the kind that you see when you visit a bakery stall at your local Sunday market.
The appeal of this buckwheat soda bread is how quick and easy it is to make.
As much as I love the light airiness of yeasted breads like these Tiger Rolls or Air Fryer Bread, sometimes, I need my bread on the table in a hurry. I've already got my Broccoli and Pear Soup cooking in the Instant Pot!
Another huge bonus of this bread is that do not have to even worry about the temperature! By that, I mean I do not have to prove the dough.
No-knead bread
As this is a no-yeast bread, the dough does not require any kneading.
In fact, over kneading the dough can toughen it. Once all the ingredients are well mixed, all this bread requires is shaping!
What to serve with Buckwheat Soda Bread
The warm flavourings in this recipe make this bread excellent as it is. Simply slather on some butter whilst the bread is still hot.
I love rustic breads with hot soups during the winter.
Ingredients for buckwheat Irish soda bread
Let's see which ingredients we require for our soda bread.
- Buckwheat flour & Wholemeal flour - we have used a ratio of buckwheat to wholemeal flour. We have used chapatti flour here.
High protein bread flour is not required for this recipe.
- Buttermilk - the lactic acid in the buttermilk reacts with the bicarbonate of soda to make carbon dioxide.
As an alternative to buttermilk, whisk natural yogurt and water together. Use around 4-5 tablespoon yogurt with tap water to make the amount of buttermilk required for this recipe.
- Baking soda - used as a leavening agent here
- Salt
Flavours
If you want a plain bread recipe, leave out these ingredients. It will still taste delicious!
- Rosemary - we have used fresh rosemary
- Sundried tomato - you can use either sun-dried tomato in oil from a jar or dry sun-dried tomatoes.
This is my all time favourite ingredient! I LOVE sun-dried tomatoes whether it is in sandwiches, pasta salads such as Mediterranean Orzo Pasta Salad or pasta sauces like Instant Pot Sundried Tomato Pasta Sauce. For a filling lunch, Sun dried Tomato, Chickpea Cakes with Cashew and Oats are always a good idea!
You can also make your own Sun-dried Cherry Tomatoes
- Olives - we have used a combination of green and black olives.
- Garlic - use fresh minced garlic for the best flavour
How to make the easiest soda bread with buckwheat flour
It is so easy to make buckwheat soda bread. It's the perfect quick bread recipe for when you are in a hurry. You also need only a few store cupboard ingredients.
- In a big mixing bowl place both flours.
- Mix flours, add roughly chopped sundried tomatoes, rosemary, olives and garlic.
- Now, add salt, black peppers and soda bicarbonate.
- Combine well, add buttermilk and stir until you have soft sticky dough. Do not knead the dough.
- Form this into a round shape on lightly floured baking sheet, score the dough deep cross or make a pattern how you fancy. Scoring a cross at the top of the bread will help the inside to bake as well.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, in the pre heated oven to gas mark 6. Keep checking until the crust is golden brown.
Leftover soda bread
Soda bread tends to go chewy so it is best eaten the day it is made so the best way to revive it is to toast it.
We toasted slices under the grill and topped with avocado for breakfast the next day.
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Sundried Tomato Buckwheat Soda Bread
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Baking tray
- oven
Ingredients
- 250 g buckwheat flour
- 250 g wholemeal flour some for dusting
- 1 tsp. salt
- 420 ml buttermilk
- 1 tsp. bicarbonate of soda
- 3-4 tablespoon rosemary finely chopped
- ¼ cup sun dried tomatoes finely chopped
- 1 tsp. garlic minced
- 1 tsp. black pepper freshly ground
- 1 tsp. olives black and green finely chopped
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven to gas mark 6 or 200C/400F.
- Keep a baking tray with lightly dusted flour.
- In a very large bowl mix together both flours, salt and soda.
- Add rosemary, tomatoes, garlic, black pepper and chopped olives. ( Skip this step if you want to bake a plain bread )
- Now add buttermilk and stir until you have soft sticky dough.
- Do not knead the dough.
- Form this into round shape on lightly floured baking sheet, score the dough deep cross or make a pattern how you fancy.
- Dust the bread with flour.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes, keep checking until the crust is golden brown.
- Another way to check if bread is done, the loaf sound hollow when tapped underneath.
- Leave it to cool on a wire rack and enjoy as soon as possible,
Notes
Nutrition
PLEASE NOTE: Nutritional values are estimated by a computer and may vary based on ingredients and portion sizes. For personalised dietary advice, please consult a qualified healthcare professional.
Share on Facebook Pin This RecipeNote – This recipe has been updated from our recipe archives with new images and content, but the recipe remains the same. First time published in February 2015.
Mayuri Patel says
This buckwheat and wheat flour soda bread looks so perfect. A bread full of flavors. I've yet to try baking with buckwheat flour.
Unknown says
Yum! Can imagine how power packed with flavour this bread must be plus it’s so quick. 👌🏼👌🏼
Vanitha says
Wow, quick and easy!! NO waiting for it to rise; my kind of bread!!
Unknown says
Thank you so much for adding the American oven temperature, this looks amazing I will make this. Just need to find a whole meal flour similar to what you used!
jcookingodyssey says
Thank you Arlena for visiting my blog. Regarding wholemeal flour, you can use wholemeal bread flour too. Hope this helps. Happy Baking !
Unknown says
This is the best soda bread ever, I've been looking for ever for a good recipe. I've tried loads. This is the best. Light tasty I can now make sandwiches. I used coconut milk not buttermilk. And fine wholemeal flour as I could not get coarse wholemeal. Fabulous bread
jcookingodyssey says
Susan, thank you so much for a lovely and generous comment. I am so pleased that this recipe worked out so well for you. Thank you so much for your feedback, I really appreciate it.
Have a good day!
Hamaree Rasoi says
I too feel that January went off in a jiffy. However we have Feb where I could see that you have prepared a masterpiece of a bread. Excellent preparation.
Deepa
jcookingodyssey says
Thank you Deepa for a lovely comment. x