How to Make Delicious No-Knead Crusty Bread

No-Knead Crusty Bread. The dough is baked in a covered dutch oven for perfect artisan bread. What I love about this bread. Oh, you thought you couldn't make bakery-style artisan bread at home?

Just mix by hand and let the yeast do all of the work. A good base bread that can be tweaked. I used active dry yeast that i activated (yeast, warm water, sugar) first before adding to the remaining ingredients. You can cook No-Knead Crusty Bread using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of No-Knead Crusty Bread

1. Prepare 3 cups of all-purpose flour.
2. You need 2 teaspoon of kosher salt.
3. It's 1/2 teaspoon of dry yeast (active dry or highly active dry work best).
4. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of lukewarm water.
5. Prepare of Special cookware needed: Dutch oven or any large oven-safe dish/bowl and lid.
6. It's of I used our turkey roaster (with lid) and placed a cake pan (2 inches high – 12/14 inch diameter). It worked perfectly.

A very easy and astonishingly tasty, crispy artisan bread with no kneading involved. Readers loved the last no-knead bread recipe I published, a focaccia from Zoë François and Jeff Hertzberg of "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" fame, so I decided that was the route I wanted to go for a crusty, whole-wheat loaf. This time, I turned to Jim Lahey, the baker and cookbook author who. I was so happy how this crusty bread turned out, I was literally patting myself on the back!

No-Knead Crusty Bread step by step

1. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, salt and yeast..
2. Add the water and stir using a wooden spoon until the mixture forms a shaggy but cohesive dough..
3. Cover bowl tightly with plastic wrap. Let dough sit at room temperature for 8-24 hours. Dough will bubble up and rise..
4. An hour and a half before you want to eat the bread, preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Place your Dutch oven, uncovered, into the preheated oven for 30 minutes..
5. While your Dutch oven preheats, turn dough onto a well-floured surf.

Seriously, this crusty, rustic, no knead bread is THE easiest bread I think you can make. I used to be terrified of making bread, it always goes back to this one time a couple of years ago that I tried to make an Italian loaf and it turned out like a skinny rubber snake. An experience like that can scar you into. Whether you're a novice or experienced bread baker, No-Knead bread is the easiest and one of the tastiest bread you'll ever make! No bread machine or stand mixer needed for this chewy No-Knead Crusty Bread.