Description
You don’t need a bread maker and you don’t have to spend time kneading to make this delicious homemade no-knead artisan bread! It uses only 4 ingredients!
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups warm water
- 1 Tablespoon + 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 Tablespoon + 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast (or two 1/4 oz. packages of yeast)
- 6 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup water (for oven steam)
- Stand mixer with dough hook (I used my Kitchen-Aid mixer)
Instructions
- Combine warm water, salt, and yeast in a bowl. Stir to mix.
- Pour your flour into your stand mixer’s bowl. Add the warm yeast mixture to the flour mixture. Using your mixer’s dough hook, mix until well combined.
- Place a piece of plastic wrap, sprayed with cooking spray, onto the top of the mixing bowl. Cut small slits into the plastic wrap to allow air and gas to escape. Let rise for 2 hours.
- Remove plastic wrap and discard. Remove the dough from the bowl by scraping it down the sides and placing onto a lightly floured surface. The dough will be very sticky, but will remove easily out of the bowl.
- Divide the dough into 2 halves and shape into loaves. If it’s sticking to your hands too much, flour your hands as well to make shaping easier.
- Place parchment paper on a baking sheet. You could also use a baking stone (with parchment paper on top) instead. Place your loaves on your baking sheet/stone. Add a light dusting of flour to the loaf tops. Let them rest and rise for 30 more minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 450 F.
- Pour a cup or so of water into a baking pan and put it on the bottom rack of your oven. The steam from this pan will help your bread get nice and crusty.
- Make a couple cuts in the tops of each loaf. This will help the bread’s gases escape while it cooks.
- Place your baking sheet with loaves in the oven and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- When the bread is done, let it cool a bit on a cooling rack before cutting, serving, and enjoying!