Bluebirdkisses Crusty Bread Recipe

Do you love the taste of artisan bread with its golden crust and chewy interior? You can make your own with this Dutch Oven Artisan Bread recipe at a fraction of the cost of buying one at the store — and it only takes 3 ingredients!

This recipe is so easy, you don’t even need to knead. You just mix the ingredients and let it sit to do its magic while you kick up your feet and enjoy some Netflix.

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I usually make the dough the night before I want to bake it. To mix the dough, you simply add all the dry ingredients in a bowl and combine it with water.

Crusty Bread Easy Overnight No Knead

The scant amount of yeast will slowly multiply and form the necessary gluten while you go about your business. In my case, Netflix and some zzz’s. In every bread book that I read, slow rise gives the bread a superior, more complex flavor compared to a quickly risen counterpart. Just by letting it do its thing, your bread will have a better flavor.

You can add your own creative touch by adding mix-ins.  My kids loved it when I mixed some leftover tapenade (mixed olive spread) and shredded parmesan cheese.  Cinnamon raisin & walnut cranberry are some of our favorites too.  But if you just want it simple, make it without the mix-ins and it would be great to impress your dinner guests, serve with soup, make sandwiches, or eat hot with butter and jam!

Commercially, the artisan breads are made in special ovens that spray steam while baking to achieve that crispy crust. You can create a similar effect using a piping hot Dutch oven.

Rustic Crusty Bread

When the dough is placed in the hot Dutch oven and the lid is closed, the steam from the dough gets trapped inside giving yeast a little extra time to work, resulting in the maximum oven spring. It also gives it a nice crispy brown crust that we all love.

My kids helped mix the dough and shape it. It is a fun activity you can do with kids that doesn’t require a lot of ingredients or time. They can even be creative with it too.

If you want to make multiple loaves, just follow the recipe using a larger bowl. I baked 3 loaves, one after another, while the oven was hot. If you have 2 Dutch ovens, you could even bake 2 at a time.

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With the actual active time of 30 minutes or less, this recipe will give you an artisan bread with hardly any work at all.Easy and quick artisan Italian rustic crusty bread at home, no knead, no machine, no dutch oven, with only 2 hour rise time. Made by hand with active dry instant yeast, flour and water then baked on a hot pizza stone.

A spin on my Italian pizza dough recipe, except here i use warm water to make the bread. Just mix together flour, salt and instant yeast then let rise for 2 hours. Only 2 hours for perfect homemade bread you guys!

Then you bake it on a preheated pizza stone (<–amazon), for a peasant style loaf that crackles in your hands like a dream, yet still soft on the inside. Perfect for dipping or to dunk into a hot bowl of vegetable soup.

How To Make Crusty Bread

The secret is a  bowl of water steaming under the pizza stone while the bread is baking. The steam makes a crusty loaf!

Allow the loaf  to cool off completely on a cooling rack on its side. Place it in a plastic bag and store on the kitchen counter at room temperature for a couple of days. I would not recommend freezing this kind of bread, instead if you find yourself with a stale chunk simply do as the Italian do: make a big pot of Ribollita or this Tuscan Pappa al Pomodoro soup.

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Easy and quick artisan Italian crusty bread recipe you can make at home. No knead, no machine, with only 2 hour rise time. Made with active dry instant yeast, flour and water and baked on a hot pizza stone.

Easy No Knead Overnight Artisan Bread

Calories: 195 kcal | Carbohydrates: 40 g | Protein: 6 g | Fat: 1 g | Saturated Fat: 1 g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1 g | Sodium: 295 mg | Potassium: 83 mg | Fiber: 2 g | Sugar: 1 g | Vitamin C: 1 mg | Calcium: 10 mg | Iron: 2 mgAre you looking for the best crusty bread recipe in the world? Look no further, you’ve found it right here. This is one of those no-knead, Dutch oven bread variations that will blow you away. Okay, I know that a recipe for the best bread in the world is a tall order. This crusty, light and airy bread comes very, very close though.

Not only does this bread taste amazing, so much better than the store-bought version, it’s also really straightforward to make. What more could you ask for?

The only things you need for making this bread is a bowl, something to stir the dough (you only need to do that for 5 minutes) and a dutch oven. We have several and have baked this bread in both this ceramic one, and in a cast iron dutch oven like this one. Use the one you have, and I am sure you will do just fine.

Homemade Rustic Bread

For us, this is a “weekend bread” – that is, it’s the kind of bread that takes time from start to finish. The bread recipes we tend to use every day, like our simple bread rolls, are quick and easy. Sometimes I get excited and start making the everyday bread – a recipe that will feed you bread for years to come, without adding yeast, its also simple enough, but just demands a different kind of commitment. You get the picture. This bread is so ridiculously easy to make, and it just tastes SO good.

You need to start baking this bread at least 16 hours before you want to eat it. This is to give the gluten in the bread the chance to form long strings. Gluten strings can be achieved by kneading as well, but that’s not what we are going for today. Those gluten strings then knit the bread together, creating those big air bubbles I just love!

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Add all of the ingredients to a bowl and stir it until all the flour is wet. This wont take long, and don’t worry if its still a very runny consistently, it is supposed to be a very soft dough.

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Leave it covered in a cold room over night, (at least 12 hours but 14 hours is good to). By the end it will have formed big air bubbles.

Take the dough out of the cold room, and get it out onto the kitchen table. Take the dough out of the bowl and shape it into a loaf. Leave it there to “wake up” for about 2 hours. I leave mine on a silicone baking mat, like this one – if you don’t have one, the kitchen table will work as well.

Add the dutch oven, to your cold oven and heat it all up together to about 250 degrees Celsius (480 F). Make sure that your dutch oven is heated all the way through. Do this by leaving it in the oven for about 10-20 minutes after the oven heats up.

Simple Crusty Bread Recipe

Carefully remove the dutch oven from your oven and leave it on a heat proof surface. Grab all of your dough and place it straight into the dutch oven. I do this with a pizza paddle life this one. Add the lid back onto the dutch oven and place it back into the oven at full heat. Leave it there to bake for 30 minutes.

When the 30 minutes are up, remove the lid and turn the oven down to 225 degrees C, (435 F) and bake the bread for another 15 minutes.

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Remove the bread from the oven, and “poor” it out of the dutch oven onto a rack. And then LEAVE IT for at least 20 minutes. Enjoy the crackling sounds it is making, but don’t eat it just yet.

No Knead Crusty Bread

That’s it. The method itself is very simple – make your dough, leave to prove and bake in a Dutch oven (or whatever pot you have.)

Nothing less than the best bread in the world. This is a no-knead bread that takes very little work, you just need to allow plenty of time for proving. This amazing crusty bread is crispy on the outside, and soft and light on the inside.

I have to be honest. It took me a few attempts before this bread turned out the way I wanted it. So I’m going to share my best tip for perfect crusty bread.

The Best Crusty Bread Recipe In The World

If your bread sticks to your Dutch oven, pot, or whatever you’re using to bake it in, then the pot wasn’t warm enough when you put the bread in. To avoid this, leave your Dutch oven in your heated oven for a bit longer before you take it out and put in