Root Vegetable Soup with Irish Soda Bread

hulajules
hulajules @cook_3376105

A delicious soup AND fresh bread in under an hour? "Impossible!" you say. However it is possible with a simple soda bread which takes minutes to prepare and bakes in half an hour. Team it with simple vegetable soup and you'll have a delicious hearty meal the family will love.

Root Vegetable Soup with Irish Soda Bread

A delicious soup AND fresh bread in under an hour? "Impossible!" you say. However it is possible with a simple soda bread which takes minutes to prepare and bakes in half an hour. Team it with simple vegetable soup and you'll have a delicious hearty meal the family will love.

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Ingredients

1 hour
4 servings
  1. The Bread
  2. 500 gramsflour (I used a malted strong flour, but you can use plain)
  3. 5 gramssalt
  4. 10 gramsbicarbonate of soda
  5. 375 mlmilk
  6. 25 mlcider vinegar
  7. The Soup
  8. 1 tbspsunflower oil
  9. 1onion
  10. 1 clovegarlic
  11. 2 stickcelery
  12. 1 mediumsweet potato
  13. 2 mediumparsnips
  14. 3 smallpotatos
  15. 500 mlhot water
  16. 1stock cube (I used chicken)
  17. 1 dashthyme
  18. 1 dashcracked pepper
  19. 1 dashfreshly grated nutmeg

Cooking Instructions

1 hour
  1. 1

    Preheat oven to 200° celcius; grease a 1-pound loaf tin with some sunflower oil

  2. 2

    Mix the flour, salt and bicarb in a large bowl. Make a well in the centre of the flour and pour in the milk and vinegar, then combine into a wet sticky dough with your hands

  3. 3

    Place the dough onto a floured surface and work it into a rough ball - it'll still look pretty porridge-y but put it into your greased tin and pop the tin into the oven for 30 minutes

  4. 4

    Meanwhile, heat the rest of the sunflower oil in a saucepan

  5. 5

    Peel and chop the onion and put it into the pot over a low heat to soften

  6. 6

    Peel and chop the garlic and pop it into the pan with the onion. Slice the celery and add to the pot with the rest of the flavour-base

  7. 7

    Whilst the flavour-base is softening, peel and chop your root vegetables. These can be swapped for your favourite root veggies or whatever you have in the house. Add to the softened onion/celery mix.

  8. 8

    Pour enough hot water to cover all the vegetables and stir in your stock cube (or you could use liquid stock instead of a stock cube and water). Add the herbs and season to taste

  9. 9

    Turn the heat up and bring the soup to a boil, then lower heat and simmer the soup until the root vegetables are soft

  10. 10

    When your bread is done, remove from oven and cool on a wire rack. The bread should be a nice deep gold colour.

  11. 11

    Once all the vegetables are soft, remove the soup from the heat and purée with a stick blender. Once blended ensure you taste the soup again and season to taste

  12. 12

    Serve the soup with a couple of slices of your delicious bread!

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Comments (2)

Kevin S
Kevin S @kevin513
I used what I had on hand; it came out very good! (butternut, carrot, sweet potato, potato, and 1 small turnip) I will make this again-thanks for sharing.

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