Easy Beer Bread (Quick version with self-raising flour)
Quick and easy to make beer bread recipe with self-raising flour, your choice of beer and dark sugar and salt. This beer recipe doesn't require kneading or proving and you can have it ready within an hour. This beer bread has a rich beer aroma and crunchy crust and it's perfect to serve with butter, cheese or pate or as a side dish with soups, meat or vegetable stews or other main dishes.
Equipment
- baking tray any baking tray or 2 pound loaf cake or bread tin (or two 1 pound loaf cake or bread tins)
Ingredients
- 500 grams self-raising flour white cake or wholemeal cake flour or flour mix (see notes)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dark sugar molases or date syrup
- 1 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 330 ml beer of your choice one small bottle or regular beer can
Instructions
- Preheat your oven first to 200 Celsius or gas mark 6 or 400 Fahrenheit.
- Measure out the flour, salt and sugar in to a large bowl and mix together.
- Pour in the beer and stir to combine everything together. Don't over mix only bring the flour together.
- Turn the beer bread dough on to your kitchen work top and briefly knead or bring it together to form a loaf (don't over knead the dough at this stage). Add more beer if the dough feels very dry.
- Shape the dough by hand (by folding the dough underneath the middle) and either place it directly on the baking tray or place in a lined bread tin (one large 2 pound loaf tin or two 1 pound loaf tins). You can cut the middle into the cross to help the bread to open and rise a little more as it bakes.
- Place the beer bread onto a baking tray and immediately place in a pre-heated oven.
- Bake for about 35-40 minutes on 200 Celsius or gas mark 6 or 400 Fahreigheit
- Test when the bread is done by piercing it with a wooden skewer. If the wooden skewer comes out clean, your bread is ready. If it comes out slightly moist, bake the beer bread for another 5 minutes and try again.
- Once baked, cool the beer bread on a wired rack and serve when it's still warm (once it's cooled down a bit).
Notes
The nutritional value is calculated for the whole recipe - bread.
Nutrition
Calories: 1969kcalCarbohydrates: 380gProtein: 61gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 4gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 3513mgPotassium: 598mgFiber: 12gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 10IUCalcium: 95mgIron: 5mg
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