No knead bread - Crusty Bread

Super-Easy-Simple Bread!

When I saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Ah9ES2yTU for the first time, I was so excited. The next day I started baking and followed the recipe exactly. The result was stunning and awesome. I spent the next few weeks in the kitchen. I delighted my friends, my neighbors and the my husband's coworkers with home-baked bread. The feedback was great! Everybody liked it and asked for more. This recipe is so easy and simple but the result is just stunning! I changed the recipe from the original a little.

Crusty Bread

Ingredients

11/2 cups unbleached all purpose flour 
11/2 cups bread flour

1 1/2 teaspoon salt 

1/2 teaspoon instant yeast 

1 1/2 cups water 

In a large bowl mix together flour, salt, and yeast. Add water and mix until the dough comes together. It will be a shaggy, doughy mess. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit 12-18 hours on the counter top. Resting it overnight is great. Pour the dough on a heavy floured surface. Fold the ends of the dough over and shape it into a ball. Place your bread on a large piece of parchment paper and lift in a large bowl or round basket. Cover it with a towel. Let it rise for 2 hours.

After 1 hour, while the dough is halfway done resting, preheat your oven with a dutch oven inside to 450F.

Remove hot - very, very hot pot from the oven. Grab the ends of the parchment paper and lift the dough into the pot. Cover and return in to the oven. Bake 30 minutes with lid. Bake another 15-20 minutes uncovered. Remove the crusty bread from the oven and let it cool on a cooling rack. 

Listen to the music :-) and do the happy dance!!!

If not eating right away, you can heat up later in the oven at 350F for 10 minutes or slice and freeze.

Enjoy :-)

  Good food makes me smile :-)