Super Easy, No Knead Bread Recipe

Don’t you love the smell of home cooked food? It’s such a homey feeling smelly freshly baked bread and tasting melted butter on warm bread. This no knead bread recipe is great for busy moms.  I can make the dough the night before, forget about it all day, then warm up my Dutch oven and cook it! It does take a couple hours to cook, but there’s nothing to getting it ready and in the Dutch oven.

If you are cooking with an enamel coated Dutch Oven, you can do without the parchment paper.  If you have an old fashioned cast iron Dutch Oven, make sure to use parchment paper to ensure it doesn’t stick. 

You can slice up the bread and store it in a glass container with a lid. You can also use it like you would any other bread: with butter and jam, soups, or cut a slice in half and make a sandwich out of it.

No Knead Bread Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 cups all purpose flour, plus some extra
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp active dry yeast
• 1 1/2-2c warm water (you don’t want it too hot or it will kill your yeast)

Directions

• Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Pour in warm water and stir. It’s going to be wet and sticky, that’s why we’ll use more flour later 😉
• Cover this (I’ve used a reusable cover, a thick dish towel and big rubber band, and Saran Wrap when I didn’t have the other two because I dislike making trash) tightly and let it sit for 8-20 hours. I personally make mine around 8p and start baking around 3-4p the next day.
• After letting it sit, it should be bubbly and have risen. Preheat your oven to 450*F (230*C) and let your Dutch oven (with the lid) sit in there for 30 min.
• After you put my Dutch oven in, heavily flour some parchment paper and your hands, and grab the dough. Throw it on the parchment paper and form it into a ball, using more flour if you need to. You don’t need to work the dough, just make it into a some sort of ball. Let the dough rest while your Dutch oven warms.
• After the 30 mins, Take out the Dutch oven, put the parchment paper with the dough on top in the Dutch oven, and put the lid on.
• Bake for 45 min, then take the lid off for another 10 min or until your bread is cooked through and brown and crunchy on top.
• Let it cool some before slicing.

Do you make homemade breads without a machine? Share your recipe!

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