No-Knead Bread
This is the simplest way to have homemade bread on hand all the time in your house. In a couple of hours you can have the most beautiful and delicious bread! For this recipe you don’t need any special equipment and it is a great way to start your bread making journey.
However, there are some things I would recommend having if you are going to start making homemade bread:
5.5/6 qt Dutch Oven
Bread Lame
Plastic Dough Scraper
Spray Bottle
Oven Gloves
Bread Knife
Yeast Spoon
No-Knead Bread
The easiest way to have delicious homemade bread all the time!
Equipment
- 1 Spray Bottle
Ingredients
- 530 g Bread Flour (4 cups spoon & leveled)
- 10 g Salt (1 1/2 tsp)
- 371 g Warm Water (no more than 110℉) (1 3/4 cups)
- 7 g Active Dry Yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
- 1 tsp Sugar to feed the yeast
Instructions
- Add the bread flour and salt to a large bowl. Mix to combine.
- Add warm water to a cup with the yeast and sugar. Let it sit for 10 mins to bloom.
- Add the foamy yeast mixture to the flour and mix with a wooden spoon or danish whisk. Make sure all the flour is absorbed.
- Cover and let it rise until double in size in a warm place for 2 hours.
- An hour and a half into the rise time, turn the oven on to 500℉ and place your dutch oven in there to preheat for an hour. If not using a dutch oven, you can preheat a pizza stone or a baking sheet.
- After 2 hours the dough should have doubled or even tripled in size. Dump it out gently onto a well floured surface. Gently grab the top, bottom and sides and fold them over to the center. Turn the dough over and place onto a parchment paper. *Optional, sprinkle the parchment paper with a little cornmeal for the bottom crust. Cover with the bowl and let it rest for 30 mins.
- Using a blade or bread lame, cut a cross on top of the bread to help it expand in the oven.
- Have a spray bottle with water ready!
- Gently lower the bread into the dutch oven or slide onto the hot pizza stone or place on a baking sheet.
- If using a dutch oven, spray the inside of the dutch oven with water to create a steam effect to help with the oven spring and place the cover on. If not using a dutch oven, spray the walls of the oven with water or add ice cubes to the bottom of the oven.
- For the dutch oven bake @450℉ for 30 mins covered and 15 mins uncovered. If not using a dutch oven, bake for 30-35 mins at 450℉ or until you have achieved the color on the bread that you desire.
- Remove from the oven and place on a wire rack to cool. And now for the hardest part of the recipe…letting it cool! Wait at least 30 mins before cutting.
- ***Freezing – If you would like to have fresh bread on hand all the time , you can cut the bread up and place it into a freezer bag and freeze it.
