Delicious bread recipes to make your mouth water (2024)

The ultimate French crusty bread, start making the dough the day before and serve for a weekend lunch with some creamy Camembert cheese.

Try this baguette recipe

This traditional Swedish bread is best served with cured meat or fish and relish. Start preparing the night before to leave time for the dough to rise.

Try this scalded rye bread

This light, sweet bread is a French classic and is delicious for breakfast or used in desserts – and you don’t need special fluted brioche pans to make these buns.

Try this brioche buns recipe

This sourdough is easier to make then you think and is delicious toasted for breakfast slathered with homemade jam.

Try this sourdough recipe

This rye bread may take a little patience, but it’s well worth the effort. This dense bread is delicious topped with some cheese or smoked salmon.

Try this rye bread recipe

Master the New York bagel with this easy recipe from Lorraine Pascale – perfect for breakfast, lunch or to keep in the freezer.

Try Lorraine Pascale’s bagel recipe

With just a few staple ingredients, you need never fear of running out of bread with this recipe from The Ginger Pig. Whip up over the weekend and serve for an easy ploughman lunch.

Try The Ginger Pig’s soda bread recipe

Focaccia is the perfect bread for sharing and is made even better when using a really fine olive oil. Serve warm as a starter or topped with some fresh tomatoes, artichokes and cold meats.

Try Lorraine Pascale’s focaccia bread recipe

This super quick bread can be made within an hour. You don’t have to let this simple one-mix dough rise as it will rise in the oven during the first stage of low-temperature cooking.

Try this busy people’s bread recipe

These Scandinavian buns are lightly spiced with cardamom, making them a light and delicious bread. Serve at any time of day with lashings of butter.

Try Trine Hahnemann’s cardamom buns recipe

A lovely rip-apart sharing loaf, this chilli, ginger and coriander flatbread is so easy to make and is delicious served with a curry.

Try this chilli, ginger and coriander flatbreads recipe

Mix up this easy scone-style bread with simple store cupboard ingredients. Serve warm, split and buttered with spoonfuls of extra honey for a sumptuous weekend breakfast.

Try this cheat’s honey and oat bread recipe

This great, easy bread uses bicarbonate of soda to rise, not yeast, and requires only a quick mix by hand and a very short resting time (5 minutes) but doesn't compromise on great texture and crust and a beautiful flavour.

Try Justin Gellatly’s soda bread recipe

These flatbreads are delicious straight out of the oven or can be reheated or toasted the next day. Great for dunking into dips or soaking up curry dishes.

Try this cheesy rosemary-olive flatbread recipe

Valentine Warner’s rye crisp bread makes a healthy snack or accompaniment to cheeses and dips. Pack for a light lunch and top with tinned fish for an authentic Scandinavian combination.

Try Valentine Warner’s rye crisp bread recipe

A simple loaf that still packs a wonderful tang thanks to the interplay of the honey and macadamia nuts.

Try this spelt, honey and macadamia bread recipe

If you’re new to bread-making, soda bread is a great place to start, as it’s far less temperamental than yeast-based recipes.

Try this Irish farmhouse cheese and oat soda bread recipe

This grilled naan is really delicious, crispy on top and soft underneath; try it topped with nigella or sesame seeds, or dried mint.

Try Anjum Anand's best ever grilled naan recipe