Make this delicious bread – in the air fryer! Follow Jamie Oliver’s healthy and easy recipe from his new cookbook, Easy Air Fryer …
Herby cheese soda bread
Serves 8–10
Hands on: 16 minutes
Cook: 30 minutes
1-drawer air fryer
Ingredients
250g plain wholemeal flour
200g plain flour, plus extra for dusting
50g porridge oats, plus extra for sprinkling
1 heaped tsp bicarbonate of soda
4 sprigs of rosemary
1 large free-range egg
300g buttermilk or natural yoghurt
100g Red Leicester or Cheddar cheese olive oil
Method
1. In a large bowl, mix together both flours, the oats, bicarb and 1 level teaspoon of sea salt. Pick and finely chop the rosemary leaves and stir most of them into the mixture, reserving the remainder.
2. Make a well in the middle, crack in the egg and add the buttermilk, then mix thoroughly with a fork. Gradually bring in the flour from the outside, then use your clean lightly floured hands to pat and bring the dough together.
3. Chop the cheese into chunks, mix in, then shape the dough into a ball, using your clean oiled hands to flatten it into a disc, roughly 3cm deep. Sprinkle over a few extra oats and a little sea salt, patting them on to the dough. Score a deep criss-cross pattern into the top, then carefully place in the air-fryer drawer and cook for 20 minutes at 180ºC.
4. Rub the reserved chopped rosemary with 1 teaspoon of olive oil, sprinkle over the bread and cook for another 10 minutes at 180ºC, or until a firm crust has formed and the bread sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom.
5. Transfer to a wire cooling rack and serve warm.
Energy 286kcal, Fat 7.3g, Sat fat 3.3g, Protein 12.3g, Carbs 45.9g, Sugars 3g, Salt 1.5g, Fibre 4.1g
Easy Air Fryer by Jamie Oliver is published by Penguin Michael Joseph © Jamie Oliver Enterprises Limited (2025 Easy Air Fryer). Recipe photography: © David Loftus, 2025.
