No fuss cheese and herb damper (bread)

This is the easiest bread to whip up and perfect with a bit of butter or to accompany any of your favourite meals! There's NO yeast, NO resting time and you can use any ingredients you fancy for flavour!

Cheese and basil damper

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 cup coarsely grated cheese
A bunch of chopped basil or in our case we sprinkled dry basil as desired
1 1/4 cups buttermilk ( sour milk) - see rip at bottom of post as you can make your own buttermilk easily.
1 egg

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180 C. Combine flour, baking powder, grated cheese and basil in a bowl.
2. Make a well in centre. Add buttermilk and egg. Season (with salt and pepper).
3. Mix until dough just comes together.
4. Turn onto a lightly floured surface. Knead until just smooth. NOTE: dough is VERY sticky but after kneading will come together. Add a bit of flour while kneading to smooth it out.
5. Shape in to disc and place on lined tray with baking paper. Flatten slightly and score into quarters or six wedges. Sprinkle with flour.
6. Bake for 25-30mins or until golden. Set aside for 5mins to rest and then eat! Om nom nom ;)

Tip:

Buttermilk-something I hadn't heard much of until I moved to Australia. It's basically just sour milk and you can easily make your own. If a recipe calls for 1 cup of buttermilk then you just add 1 Tbsp of white vinegar or lemon juice to the milk and leave it for 5 mins before adding to recipe.

For more flavour you could add bacon or ham to the bread or anything else you fancy! X