It’s been a while since we’ve made our favourite Irish soda bread – https://www.wearelifestyles.com/cheesy-irish-soda-bread/ – because we’ve not had our own oven for so long. But, we wanted to get back into making bread – and bread which we knew contained only good stuff. As we’ve been operating with just air fryers for a while now, I was all over a recipe I spotted on Instagram using just three main ingredients – self raising flour, Greek yogurt and egg wash – and cooked in the airfryer, so we gave it a whirl a few days ago. Suffice to say, we now make these rolls (or sometimes a loaf) nearly every day, instead of buying our bread in. It’s very quick to do – so much quicker than getting in the car and going out and buying bread. Like with the Irish soda bread, we’ve started experimenting and added other ingredients – obviously topped with parmesan and with cheddar kneaded into the dough, is an absolute winner in our house, but cranberries and nuts and seeds are also great additions. The only thing that we want to improve on, is getting organic self-raising flour. Sourcing self-raising is quite tricky here, but M&S apparently do a cracking organic one. And now that I have my residency sorted here, once I collect the actual card, getting over to Gibraltar – and therefore M&S – is no longer an issue. I’m counting down the days…

what you need to make 9-10 small rolls/one loaf

• 300g self raising flour
• 300g Greek yogurt
• egg wash
• salt & pepper
• toppings/additions to dough to your taste – sunflower seeds, chia seeds, crushed nuts, cranberries, cheese, chilli flakes etc

what you need to do

• heat airfryer to 180°
• mix the greek yogurt into the flour, with salt & pepper, according to taste, and any additional ingredients, until a dough is formed
• separate the dough into 9/10 bread roll shapes, or form a loaf
• brush with egg wash
• sprinkle with your chosen toppings
• cook in airfryer for 12-15 minutes (12 mins for individual rolls, about 15 mins for a denser loaf)
• try and resist until they have cooled down…

We’ve also switched the Greek yogurt for cottage cheese (same quantities) and the results are as good – with the added bonus this time, of hot bits of cottage cheese, in the middle. Because we can’t resist this home made goodness, and they don’t sit long enough to cool down…