Nadiya Hussain five-spice soda bread with red split lentils recipe

Nadiya Hussain served up red split lentils and five-spice soda bread on Nadiya’s British Food Adventure.

The ingredients for the five-spice soda bread: 250g wholemeal flour, 250g strong white bread flour, plus extra for dusting, 1 tsp fine salt, 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1 tbsp Indian five-spice (cumin, mustard, fenugreek, nigella and fennel seeds) and 400ml buttermilk.

For the lentils: 150g red split lentils, 1 bay leaf, 1 dried red chilli, ½ tsp turmeric, ½ tsp fine salt, 75g unsalted butter, 5 garlic cloves, thinly sliced and handful fresh coriander (approx. 10g), roughly chopped.


The recipe is available in Nadiya’s new book titled: Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, available from Amazon now.