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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Quick to make, packed with cheese, and loaded with onions, this tasty bread is the perfect side for your favourite soup or stew. You won’t even need yeast for this one.
Why not pair this Cheesy Onion Bread with a warming Ham & Potato Soup or a wintery Guinness Irish Stew? While you’re at it, try making some Cranberry Nut Bread for dessert or a snack.
Reader Review
Karlynn,
My husband and I made this bread and it is so very delicious! So easy and no yeast.
Cant wait to make it again.
Thank you for an easy recipe with outstanding results.
Why I Think You Will Love This Recipe
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making this bread will take approximately 60 minutes from start to finish.
- Variations: Try adding some diced jalapenos or bell peppers for colour and crunch. Why not add some chopped up dill pickles and some fresh dill? Change up the type of cheese you use. Try a smoked cheese or something with hot peppers to alter the flavour profile. Add more garlic and/or more onions. Some nice crunchy bacon bits would also make a great addition.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a large bowl, a small bowl, a whisk, a loaf pan, a toothpick or cake tester, a cheese grater, and a spoon or spatula.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Cheese: This recipe calls for a white cheddar, but you can use any grated cheese you like. Softer cheeses like cheddar, Swiss, gouda, or mozzarella will work best. You can also use different sizes of graters, depending on how big you want your pieces of cheese to be.
Onion: This recipe includes minced green onions (chives would also work), dried minced onions, and onion powder. You can play with the precise amounts based on your own personal taste. You probably don’t want to add raw, fresh white or yellow onions, since they’d quite strong and overpower the bread.
Bread: The bread dough itself is a fairly straightforward quick bread mixture. Flour, baking powder, egg, milk, butter, but no yeast. This bread won’t rise as much as a yeast bread, so expect it to behave more like a zucchini loaf or muffins.
How To Make Cheesy Onion Bread
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease loaf pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients.
- In a small bowl, whisk together milk, egg, and butter.
- Mix wet mixture into dry mixture. Add grated cheese and stir until fully combined.
- Put batter into loaf pan. Bake for 45-55 minutes.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Cheesy Onion Bread
Optional Mix-Ins: If you’d like to get extra creative with this easy quick bread, there are many options. For example, cooked bacon or pepperoni would add some decadent pops of salty flavour. You can also experiment with different seasonings, like Italian Seasoning or Cajun Seasoning depending on what kind of flavour profile you’re looking for. This bread would also make the perfect host for some chopped dill pickles.
Don’t Overmix: When you’re combining all of the ingredients, do your best not to overmix the batter. You only need to stir enough times to get the wet and dry ingredients mixed and then get the grated cheese evenly distributed throughout the dough. You don’t need to try to make this one smooth. If you overmix, you run the risk of creating a glue-like or heavy consistency.
Storage Instructions
Once it’s fully cooled, store this bread in an airtight container or in plastic wrap at room temperature for 4-5 days. Warm up individual slices for a few seconds in the microwave if you’d like to get the cheese melty.
Freezer: Wrap the bread up tightly in plastic wrap or foil and then put it into an airtight container in your freezer for 2-3 months. Reheat it in the oven or microwave.
More Delicious Bread Recipes
Are you looking for more easy bread and dinner roll recipes?
Try making some Pepperoni Bread.
Check out this Parker House Rolls Recipe.
Pretty Darn Perfect Sweet Dinner Rolls are great to serve with soup or stew.
There it is, everyone. An easy recipe for delicious bread that will smell and taste amazing. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Baking!
Karlynn
Cheesy Onion Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 tablespoons green onions, minced
- 3 tablespoons dried onions, minced
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk
- 1 large egg
- ¼ cup melted salted butter cooled
- 1 ½ cups aged white cheddar cheese, grated
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 350°F. Grease a standard loaf pan and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, onions, sugar, onion powder, garlic powder, and salt.
- Whisk together the milk, egg and butter until completely combined.
- Stir into the dry mixture until just combined, then add in the cheese.
- Turn out the batter into the prepared pan.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes until a toothpick or cake tester inserted comes out clean. Remove from the pan and place on a baking rack to cool slightly. This is best served warm.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Bobbi Sandberg says
Is there a replacement for eggs? My son is allergic to eggs. looks amazing!
Dan says
Delish recipe, this was loved by my family! Question, I followed the recipe to a T, but the bread didn’t rise as high as your pictures. Any ideas why it didn’t? Please don’t tell me living in Edmonton is the reason lol!
Marti says
Karlynn,
My husband and I made this bread and it is so very delicious! So easy and no yeast.
Cant wait to make it again.
Thank you for an easy recipe with outstanding results.
Claudia says
Hi. Just LOVE your recipes, what a fantastic cook you are, I get so many ideas from you. This onion cheese bread sounds and looks wonderful and I am anxious to try it. I have just a few questions, does it have to be whole milk or can I use my skim? And I don’t buy salted butter, watching sodium intake, so can I use my sweet butter? Other than that I will have everything with the exception I have just regular cheddar not white and I know that would work. When the snow lets up I am heading to the store to get the green onions. My hubby will love this bread. Thank you so much for all you do for us. Big hugs. Claudia
Mr. Kitchen Magpie says
Yep, both should work fine! Thank you for the kind words. I’ll pass them along to Karlynn!
Debi S says
This looks like a bread that a relative used to make, she took the recipe to the grave unfortunately. I am thinking of trying this with a mild Parmesan Cheese instead of the cheddar. Any thoughts?
goody says
There was a cook book series called ‘Company’s Coming’, and one of the little books had a really great cheese bread, you could either make the cheese or a cinnamon loaf; the loaves were nice and high as they called for at least 3 cups of flour.The booklets were kept in a special binder. Hope that helps 🙂
goody says
you might try looking for a cookbook series called ‘Company’s Coming’, this was a series of recipes kept in a special binder, one of the booklets had a really great cheese bread, you could also turn that into a cinnamon loaf as well; the loaves were quite high, as they called for at least 3 cups of flour hope this helps 🙂