Gluten-free Blue cheese, Walnut & Thyme Bread

 

Sorry it has taken me longer than the expected time to get this recipe up but it is worth the wait I PROMISE!

I know that blue cheese is not everyone’s cup of tea BUT I love every type of cheese, especially  blue cheese…the smellier the better LOL 🙂 this bread was an experimentation that worked a treat! The hubby and my brother loved it too – SCORE!

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups gluten-free white flour (I use doves farm)
• 1 cup gluten-free oats (I used red mill)
• 1 tsp baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
• 2oz / 50g blue cheese (I used a stilton but you can use danish blue or any other preferred  type) roughly chopped / crumbed
• 1/2 cup walnut halves – roughly chopped
• Few thyme leaves
• 1 1/2 cups (375ml) buttermilk

Method:

1. Pre-heat oven to 180F / 350C and grease a 2lb bread loaf tin
2. In a large mixing bowl mix the flour, oats and baking soda.
3. Next add in the walnuts and blue cheese before add the buttermilk.
4. Pour the mixture in to the tin (it should only come almost 3/4 of the way up)
5. Bake for 50 minutes or until cooked through (check with a skewer through the center) and tapping the bottom of the loaf for a hollow sound.

Allow to cool on a wire rack COMPLETELY before diving in. This is delicious fresh or toasted. I am going to make a few batches for Christmas.

I would love to know……

What’s your favorite topping for bread / toast? (mine is bovril on toast – I am weird I know!)

What the most unusual combination you have put together in a recipe?