No Knead Bread
No hassle, no mess, no kneading! This bread will become your new weeknight favorite. Pair it with a warm soup, layer it with your favorite sandwich meat, or just spread some butter and enjoy!
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 cups water (room temperature)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, stir together flour, yeast, and salt. Make sure the bowl has ample room for the dough to grow.
- Gently stream in the water. Using a wooden spoon, mix the dough until it just comes together. It may have streaks of flour and look very dried out, but this is good! Make sure you do not have any large pockets of flour left unincorporated, and then stop stirring.
- Cover the bowl tightly in plastic wrap and let it rest at room temperature for 12-15 hours. When you return, the dough will be flat on the surface and covered in bubbles.
- When you are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 475 degrees. Place a 5-quart dutch oven in the oven while it preheats. Leave the dutch oven in the oven for about 30-45 minutes after the oven is preheated.
- While the dutch oven is preheating, finish shaping the dough.
- Lay a piece of parchment paper on the counter and lightly sprinkle with flour. Gently tilt the dough out of the bowl onto the floured parchment paper. With floured hands, gently shape the dough into a ball shape. No need to knead here! Dust the top of the dough with flour and cover with plastic wrap or a clean, lint-free tea towel.
- Let the dough rest until the dutch oven is ready, about 30 minutes. The dough ball will likely spread out and that is fine.
- Carefully remove the dutch oven from the oven. Remove the lid and set to the side.
- Pick up the parchment paper by all four corners and place it inside the dutch oven. Remember the dutch oven is still hot!
- Place the lid on top of the dutch oven and return it to the oven.
- Bake covered for 45 minutes. Then, remove the lid and bake for another 10-15 minutes, or until the bread is a toasty brown color.
Notes
Recipe is adapted from Girl Versus Dough to fill a larger dutch oven.