Multigrains cake with beetroot and orange

Version française ...

It seems that I'm fed up with beetroot and its friends, aka winter vegetables. So sad :-( until next autumn.

I just feel like eating green and fresh meals these sunny days. So when I found this lonely beetroot in the bottom of my fridge, I remembered a recipe of beetroot and carrot bread in the excellent book of Molly Brown, grains, seeds and legumes.

This recipe is in the bread and crackers chapter. I don't understand why, since it really looks and tastes like a cake. But with all the changes I did, it may really be a bread at the beginning ...

The cake is delicious anyway : moist thanks to the beetroot puree, full of grains (I love that !), full of orange and spices flavors, it also has a beautiful pink color. Perfect for tea time, breakfast or snack ...

Oatmeal soda bread

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Yes, it's still a souvenir from our journey in Irland this spring ...

I almost thrown this bread away when it was raw. Because the dough just looks like ... nothing ! I wondered if it was worth heating my oven. It would have been a pity, this delicious bread is very different from the one I'm used to eat : very dense, quite dark, no rising, and especially satiating. Two slices are enough from breakfast until 3pm (interesting when I'm discovering streets and treasures from Paris)

The taste of this bread will depend on the oatmeal you. The first one was sweet, while the second was more neutral. So you can adjust the sweetness by adding honey, sugar or treacle. The main difficulty is to think soaking oatmeal with buttermilk a day ahead, too too hard ...