Name: Easy Artisan Bread Recipe (No Knead)
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 8 h 50 min
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3/4 tsp active instant yeast; 3 cups all purpose flour; 1 ½ tsp salt; 1 ½ cups room temp water

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This No Knead Artisan Bread recipe creates a delicious crusty bread with a soft center, that comes out perfect every time. It is the perfect bread recipe for beginners or if you are just wanting to bake a simple loaf without having to use a sourdough starter.

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This No Knead Artisan Bread recipe was one of the very first no-fail bread style recipes I tried when I began baking bread. I have since developed my variation that I am sharing with you. It uses the basic idea of using a quick active starter yeast in place of a sourdough starter. This way, you can skip the all-important aspect of kneading dough and have a delicious loaf of homemade bread on your table with little effort.

Why I Love This Bread

For as long as I have been baking bread I still come back to this original recipe. A recipe that got me over the reluctance of baking bread. For a long time, I had this idea that only the most skilled at baking were the ones that would be able to bake fresh delicious bread at home. I have since realized of course that this is not the case.

You can certainly bake great bread without much baking experience. This is especially so for this No-Knead Artisan Bread recipe. It takes the guesswork out of it. It also allows you to bake bread on the same day. No kneading, rising, and waiting. And certainly no use of a fed sourdough starter. So for me. Whether you are a beginner bread baker or an expert. Recipes like this one are incredibly useful to have.

What You’ll Need To Make It

3/4 tsp instant yeast

3 cups all-purpose flour

1 ½ tsp salt

1 ½ cups room temp water

Tools

Parchment paper

Dutch Oven

Directions

In a bowl, combine all the ingredients either mixing with your hand or a large spoon. Once the dough forms it will appear somewhat stringy and that’s ok. Leave inside the bowl and top with a damped kitchen towel and place in a warm spot in your kitchen.

Let it sit overnight or for a minimum of 8 hours.

When the dough is ready. Turn your oven to 450℉ and place the Dutch oven inside for about 30 minutes with the lid on. You are creating an oven inside an oven with this step which will give the loaf that bakery quality.

Please Note: Make sure you use oven mitts or proper oven cloths as this will be very hot when removed. While your Dutch oven is heating, sprinkle a surface with a little flour and shape the dough into a circular-style loaf. Remember this is going into a Dutch oven so it will be a round loaf.

Place the loaf onto a piece of parchment paper and top with the kitchen towel allowing it to do its final rise. Once the Dutch oven has been heated remove it from the oven. Grabbing the sides of the parchment paper lift the loaf and place both the parchment paper and loaf directly inside the Dutch oven. (This will help when removing the loaf.)

Place the lid back on top and place it inside the oven to bake for 30 minutes.

After 30 minutes, open the oven and remove the lid. Bake for an additional 15 minutes with the lid off.

Let the loaf cool before slicing.

Baking Notes

For this recipe, I use unbleached all-purpose flour.
This recipe does not need to be hand kneaded however you will need to shape the dough after it has properly risen on a floured surface.
Allow the dough to rise after mixing for at least 8 hours.

How To Store Artisan Bread

Leaving it out on the countertop might look very cute but after the first day the bread will begin to harden if not stored properly. Once baked and cooled you will need to place your bread into some sort of air tight container to help the bread stay fresh. I like to use my gallon sized Ziplock bags or a large Tupperware.

Interested in Sourdough?

Heres a simple way to create a homemade sourdough starter along with a very basic Sourdough Artisan Loaf that you can create using it. If you are a beginner bread baker it might seem impossible to learn all that goes into baking bread. But with recipes like this easy artisan bread and even a beginner sourdough, you can create delicious loaves right at home.

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Yield: 10 slices