This homemade no knead bread has got to be one of my favorite bread recipes. Bread in general is something I really love making and this one is at the top.
If you are a bread lover like me you have got to try this super easy to make no knead bread. The flavor is incredible and it has a wonderful outer crust and then it is soft on the inside. I love how the actual dough comes together in minutes, so there is minimal active time to make it. Then you just have to wait for the dough to be ready.
You are going to love this bread. It is so simple to make, if I can do it, you can do it. Let’s get baking!
Ingredients
- 3 cups of all-purpose flour 360g
- 1 1/2 cups of water 355ml
- 1 1/2 tsp. of salt 8g
- 1/8 tsp. of sugar or a pinch less then 1 g
- 1/2 tsp. of active dry yeast or instant yeast 1.5g
Instructions
Heat the water until it is very warm about 105 to 115 F (37 to 43 C)., Then add the sugar and the yeast and mix with a fork. Let the mixture sit for 5 to 10 minutes until the yeast gets foamy.
Add the salt and the flour to a large bowl and whisk it well. Then add the yeast mixture to the flour. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon, until it all comes together and forms a dough. The dough will be kinda sticky and look like a mess. That is perfect! Cover it with plastic wrap and let it sit on a counter somewhere at room temperature for 12 to 18 hours. Yes, it needs that long.
After 12 to 18 hours you will see little tiny bubbles on the top of the dough, and it will have risen quite a bit. Remove the plastic wrap and then take a bit of flour and dust your counter or table.
Pour the dough onto the counter and dust the top of the dough with flour. Fold the dough onto itself a few times then shape into a ball.
Now take a bowl and add a big piece of parchment paper to it, then dust the bottom of it with some flour. Place the dough in the bowl and then re-cover it with plastic wrap and then let the dough rise for 2 hours.
Preheat our oven to 450 degrees F. or 232 C. Place the dutch oven in the oven and let it heat up along with the oven. It needs to be hot before putting the dough in it.
Once the oven is preheated and the dutch oven is also hot, use oven mitts to grab the dutch oven and place it on top of your stove. Then take the lid off, be careful it is hot!! Then grab the parchment paper and carry the dough over and lower the dough into the dutch oven. Then place the lid back on top. Again, be careful the lid and dutch oven will be super hot! Now place it in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes take the dutch oven out of the oven and remove the lid, then put it back in the oven and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes, until it gets nice and golden brown on the top. The bread is done. Allow it to cool in the pan for a few minutes.
Remove the bread from the dutch oven by grabbing ahold of the parchment paper, then carrying it over to a rack to cool the rest of the way. The paper might break, so you may need to grab a little lower, again use oven mitts! Serve and enjoy!
Find the FULL recipe here on my website.
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