Recipe: Perfect 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. The best news in baking: a perfect artisan loaf of bread is just four ingredients away (and there's no kneading!).

All you need is some parchment paper and a Dutch oven, and time to let it rise. Just mix by hand and let the yeast do all of the work. 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. You can cook No-Knead Crusty Bread using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of No-Knead Crusty Bread

1. You need 3 cups of all-purpose flour.
2. You need 2 teaspoon of kosher salt.
3. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of dry yeast (active dry or highly active dry work best).
4. It's 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. You need of I used our turkey roaster (with lid) and placed a cake pan (2 inches high – 12/14 inch diameter). It worked perfectly.

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! Learn how to bake no-knead crusty bread that's deliciously moist and chewy inside, but still has the beautiful outer crust of rustic, peasant loaves. The No-Knead Dutch Oven bread technique and recipe is easy even for beginners.

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.

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