Vegan Fruit Soda Bread
This is a handy little recipe. Especially if you have run out of bread and can’t be arsed to pop to the shop. It takes less than ten minutes to put together and will bake in approximately 45 minutes. And, its so easy to customise to boot. For a more savoury version, omit the sultanas. Or if you need a sugary lift, pop in a cup of sultanas, raisins or cheers for a deliciously and quick Fruit Soda Bread recipe.
PrintThe Best Vegan Fruit Soda Bread Recipe
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 55 minutes
- Yield: 16 slices 1x
- Category: baking
- Cuisine: Irish
Ingredients
- 250 g Wholemeal Flour
- 250 g Plain White Flour
- 1 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 tsp salt
- Plant based Buttermilk *
- 350 ml plant milk
- 1 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
- 4 tbsp melted plantbased butter
- 1 tbsp Maple Syrup
- 1 cup sultanas
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200 C. Next, make the buttermilk by adding soya milk to a measuring jug with 1 tbsp ACV. Leave it stand for ten minutes.
- Place all the dry ingredients into a large bowl. Ensure you whisk the baking soda well into the dry mix to ensure it is evenly distributed.
- Pop the melted butter and syrup to the curdled milk and hey presto it’s now vegan buttermilk. As soda bread doesn’t need yeast, it’s the acidic milk that activates baking soda which gives this bread its rise.
- Once butter and syrup added to curdled milk you should have about 400 ml liquid.
- Gradually pour the buttermilk into the dry ingredients, mixing it together with a wooden spoon.
- Time to add in your Optional cup of sultans.
- Dust your hands with flour as they dough maybe a little stick. Bring it together without over kneading. Turn it out onto a dusted sheet of grease proof paper and shape into a round. Slash a cross in the middle of the soda bread.
- Place the Soda Bread on a baking sheet in the middle of the oven and bake for approximately 45 to 50 minutes. You know its done when the cross is dry. Give it a toothpick test to be sure.
This is a simple recipe to customize. You can just used plain flour if you wish for a white savoury soda bread. To sweeten things up pop in a cup of your favourite fruit (raisins, sultanas, blueberries or cherries work well in this recipe). The tastiest one for me is the 50/50 mix of plain and whole wheat flour. The ration of 250 white to 250 g wholewheat (wholemeal) always work for me.
Soda bread isn’t meant to look perfect as its rustic so don’t worry to much about appearance, its about flavour. Also, because you are using bread soda in the mix, it’s important to get it into the oven within 15 minutes of shaping so you get a good rise on your bread. Bread soda is a fast acting levener, that loses its potency the longer its left uncooked!
I love to spread a bit of plant buttery love over each slice once the loaf has cooled slightly!
I If you like baking, try out some of my other tasty breads and sweet rolls.
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Jon
Instruction No.4 says to add butter. Butter usn’t vegan and doesn’t appear in the ingredients.
Deborah
Thanks for seeing this. I used vegan butter and missed it out in the steps.