One of the quickest breads I know

I was about to polish off the cauliflower and almond soup from last night but all of a sudden I realised that all those wonderful three breads I baked for Easter are now gone. How can have a bowl of soup without bread? So I started thinking what's the quickest bread to make? I eagerly searched on-line and here is what resulted in this quick creation. Within 40 minutes of starting the preps the bread was ready. 

Very quick rye soda bread
Adapted from Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall's Rye and honey soda bread

Ingredients
250 g stoneground rye flour
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/4 tsp salt
80g seed mix of your choice, I added the omega sprinkle mix from Holland& Barret
100ml full fat milk
100ml natural yogurt
5tbsp agave nectar
1 tbs rapeseed oil


Let's do it
Preheat the oven to 200C (fan assisted) and grease a flat baking tray with oil and sprinkle with flour.
Mix the flour with bicarb soda, salt and the seeds. 
In a separate bowl or measuring jug mix milk, yogurt, agave nectar and rapeseed oil. Pour over the dry ingredients and mix quickly but thoroughly. The dough will be sticky, so using a spatula transfer it onto the baking tray and shape into a more or less round loaf 7-8 cm high,  sprinkle over some rye flour and make a halfway through cross incision. Bake for 25-30 minutes until golden brown. Take out of the oven and tap the bottom of the bread, if it sounds hollow than the bread is done. Cool on a wire rack.

Wielkanoc - Easter

Easter Sunday table

In the Polish tradition we celebrate Easter Sunday by having a big breakfast feast. This mainly contains of boiled eggs with mayo, stuffed eggs, "twarozek" which is curd cheese mixed with sour cream, chives and chopped radishes but these are just basics because every Polish person will have their own opinion on what should be on the Easter table:)
Here is mine - eggs with mayo, twarozek, stuffed eggs and three types of bread. Also my friend who was with us on Easter Sunday made a wonderful potato salad. All in all the result is on the picture.

Eggs and mayo

 

Twarozek

Great potato salad made by my friend

 Stuffed eggs (5 eggs - 10 halves)

Ingredients:
5 hard boiled eggs 

Stuffed eggs

1,5 big flat mushrooms finely chopped
1 medium shallot, peeled and chopped finely
1 tsp of chipotles en adobo (optional)
cumin or any other favourite spices (if not adding chipotles paste)
1 tsp paprika
2 tbs of mayo
1 tbsp chopped fresh chives
1 tbs chopped fresh parsley
salt and pepper
a small knob of butter and a splash of oil

Let's do it:
In a frying pan melt butter with a splash of oil and add the shallot, fry for 2 minutes on a low gas and if using add 1 tsp of chipotles en adobo paste (or other spices), paprika and then chopped mushrooms. Fry until shallots and mushrooms are tender. This will take no longer than 10 minutes. Put aside and make sure that the mixture is cooled before further steps. In the meantime peel eggs and cut alongside in halves taking out the yolks, puree yolks with a fork. When the mushroom and shallot mixture is cold in a bowl mix it with yolks, mayo, salt, pepper and herbs and mix well. Stuff eggs generously and serve with bread.

I baked three breads. One from Paul Hollywood's Bread book which is a classic bloomer which I mentioned in the earlier post. The other two were:
Classic soda bread by Hugh F-W
and
Nigel Slater's rye bread, but I did not add cheese to this one, although I did add walnuts. Great bread, very much like polish "graham".
Happy Easter!