This is the easiest bread in the world to make and it creates a wonderful crusty and soft loaf perfect for sharing at any gathering. This bread roses for 12-18 hours so start the day before and bake the day of.
Chose a good bread flour to start with. If you don’t have bread flour then plain all purpose flour will do.
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Work enough water into your dough to create a sticky dough ball. Make sure all the flour is incorporated.
Cover the dough and allow it to rise in a warm (70-75 degrees) and allow it to sit undisturbed for 12-18 hours. It should double in size.
Using a floured surface and a little flour on your hands, fold the dough two or three times.
Begin making a nice round shape by folding the edges inward.
Wrap the dough ball, seam side down, in parchment paper and a towel to help with transporting it back to a bowl. Keep it wrapped.
Allow the dough to rise a second time, wrapped loosely, for two hours.
Preheat oven to 425 and allow Dutch oven to preheat as well.
Plop dough into heated Dutch oven, seam side up. Cover and bake 35 minutes covered and five minutes uncovered.
Remove from oven and Dutch oven when dough is golden brown. Serve warm with butter or olive oil for dipping.
Easy Sour Dough Bread
Equipment
- Mixing bowl preferably not metal
- Dough hook or wooden spoon
- measuring spoons
- Measuring cups
- Dutch oven Or large baking dish with lid
- parchment paper
- tea towel
Ingredients
- 6 cups bread flour or plain all purpose flour
- 1 tsp dry active yeast
- 2.5 tsp salt
- 2-2.5 cups room temp water
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine 6 cups flour, 1 tsp dry active yeast, and 2.5 tsp salt. Stir well. Slowly blend in enough water to create a dough. Cover with plastic wrap and allow it to rise for 12-18 hours or until doubled in size.
- Turn dough out onto floured surface and fold with flour covered hands. Begin to work the dough into a smooth ball by gently pushing the outer sides into the bottom and tuck them in until the top is smooth.
- Wrap the dough in the parchment and then cover the parchment with the tea towel. Allow the dough to rise once more, two hours.
- Preheat oven to 425 with dutch oven inside.
- Turn dough into the dutch oven with the seam up. Cover and bake for 35 minutes covered and the last 5 minutes uncovered for a total of 40 minutes.
- Remove bread from the dutch oven. If it sticks you can use a knife around the edges to loosen it up.
- Allow the bread to cool on a wire rack.
3 responses to “Easy No Knead Bread”
That was a slip on my part. It’s not sourdough because I used yeast from a jar and not sourdough starter. It’s very similar but not the same. I corrected the name of the recipe to no knead bread. Sorry for the confusion!
You just leave the bread to rise on a counter for 12-16 hours?
Yes ma’am