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No Knead Bread

A quick and easy bread recipe that doesn't require the long knead process.
Prep Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American

Equipment

  • Dutch Oven
  • Dough Scrapper
  • Parchment Paper

Ingredients
  

  • 375 grams all purpose or bread flour just under 3 cups
  • 1 tsp kosher salt
  • ¼ tsp active dry yeast
  • 1 ½ cup hot water between 110°-115°

Instructions
 

  • Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl, mix together well with a whisk.
  • Add hot water and stir with a spatula. Dough will be sticky.
  • Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit for two hours or until it doubles in size.
  • After dough has doubled in size, preheat oven to 450 and put in dutch oven to heat up. (be sure your dutch oven has a oven safe lid hadle, some cheaper ones are made of plastic and will melt)
  • While the oven heats, dust work surface with flour, lay out dough, sprinkle more flour on top.
  • Fold dough over onto itself a few times using a dough scraper.
  • Lightly shape dough into a ball, place dough on top of parchment paper then into the heated dutch oven.
  • Cook Covered for 30 minutes, remove lid and cook for another 10-15 minutes until your desired darkness.
  • Let cool on a wire rack before slicing

Notes

If you don't have a dutch oven, you can use a cake pan. 
This is a great foundation for any bread flavor, feel free to add any additional herbs, cheeses or spices!
Keyword bread