Bread Recipes

Our Bread for Beginners term in the Delia Online Cookery School is one of our most popular sections of the website. Rather than written recipes, our Cookery School has videos showing you how to make simple wholemeal and white bread, easy rolls and soda bread and well as speciality breads.

Pitta Bread

Home-made pitta bread is such a treat, and with a breadmaker to make the initial dough, it's not a lot of b...

Home-made pitta bread is such a treat, and with a breadmaker to make the initial dough, it's not a lot of bother. I love the way they puff up and become hollow.

8 minutes - 10 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Pitta Bread Salad

A Middle Eastern salad, originally called fattoush, this may sound unlikely but it really is good. ...

A Middle Eastern salad, originally called fattoush, this may sound unlikely but it really is good. It's robust and chunky with the fresh flavours of herbs and ...

Vegetarian

Poppy Seed Rolls

Basically these are the familiar soft Vienna rolls - improved I think, by a liberal sprinkling of poppy see...

Basically these are the familiar soft Vienna rolls - improved I think, by a liberal sprinkling of poppy seeds. You can now watch how to make Poppy Seed Rolls in our...

20 minutes - 25 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Potato Bread with Goats' Cheese

Don't make this if you are on a diet - it's so wonderful that it's impossible to stop eating it. It's al...

Don't make this if you are on a diet - it's so wonderful that it's impossible to stop eating it. It's also great for a packed lunch or journey because you've got th...

45 minutes - 50 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Quick Brown Rolls

This recipe requires 5-6 minutes kneading and only one rise, so it is relatively quick.

20 minutes - 25 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Seeded Loaf

This is another very quick and easy loaf, but with lots of varying textures. And don't worry if the sunf...

This is another very quick and easy loaf, but with lots of varying textures. And don't worry if the sunflower seeds turn green during baking - it actually looks ver...

40 minutes - 50 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Spanish Tomato Bread

We always have tons of this when we are in Majorca - so simple but so sublime! You can now watch h...

We always have tons of this when we are in Majorca - so simple but so sublime! You can now watch how to make Spanish Tomato Bread in our Cookery School video,...

Spiced Bread and Apple Pudding

This is another useful way of using up stale bread, especially if you have a few windfall apples around.

30 minutes - 40 minutes

to cook

Stilton Rarebit

This recipe makes the most of leftover Stilton – but it could be made with any hard cheese (or even a mixtu...

This recipe makes the most of leftover Stilton – but it could be made with any hard cheese (or even a mixture of all those end bits clinging to the rind).

Traditional Irish Soda Bread

This is the real thing - proper Irish bread. As it bakes in the oven and the aroma reaches you, c...

This is the real thing - proper Irish bread. As it bakes in the oven and the aroma reaches you, close your eyes, picture the beauty of the Irish landscape an...

40 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Walnut and Raisin Bread

I think one of God's greatest gifts to man is good cheese, and it deserves good bread to go with it. Thi...

I think one of God's greatest gifts to man is good cheese, and it deserves good bread to go with it. This chunky, slightly sweet bread goes extremely well with a sh...

35 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

A picture of Delia's Watercress and Lancashire Cheese Bread recipe

Watercress and Cheese Bread

This blissfully easy bread recipe is crunchy and crusty on the outside but soft and squidgy within. It i...

This blissfully easy bread recipe is crunchy and crusty on the outside but soft and squidgy within. It is a treat served warm from the oven but can also be made ahe...

45 minutes - 50 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Wholemeal Loaf

The poet Pam Ayres once said, when describing her home-made wholemeal bread, that it was like 'biting into ...

The poet Pam Ayres once said, when describing her home-made wholemeal bread, that it was like 'biting into a cornfield', and that's it – the very best description I've...

40 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian

Wholemeal Rolls

You can now watch how to make Wholemeal Rolls in our Cookery School Video, just click on the image to play.

20 minutes - 25 minutes

to cook

Vegetarian