Easy No Knead Artisan Bread Recipe

Artisan bread recipes don’t get easier than this No Knead Artisan Bread recipe! This artisan bread is so easy to make, it’s practically foolproof. Perfect for sandwiches, toasting, or enjoying with soup, chili, or stew.

 

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Artisan loaves are the perfect bread to serve alongside a hot bowl of soup, stew or chili and no knead bread makes great bakery-inspired sandwiches. And it’s always a nice way to impress your friends and family…they may not believe you when you say you made it yourself!

To make this artisan bread recipe, you’ll need:

• all purpose flour
• instant yeast
• sea salt
• room temperature water
• Oven-safe Dutch oven pot with a lid – This Dutch oven is the one I use.

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How to Make No Knead Bread

Some basic but important tips to know about making homemade bread:

• Before you get started, it’s important to know that the bread needs between 12 and 18 hours (or more) to rise. When I make this recipe, I always mix the dough in the afternoon or evening of the day before I’m actually going to bake the bread, so it has roughly 16-18 hours to rise.
• One tricky part of bread making is ensuring the yeast does its work to rise the dough without coming into direct contact with the salt. Salt is a very important ingredient in a bread recipe for two reasons: it works to add flavour and it retards the growth of the yeast, resulting in a more even texture than breads that contain no salt. If the yeast and the salt are mixed directly, however, (or if the recipe contains not enough yeast and too much salt) the salt can prevent the dough from rising altogether.
• When the bread is rising, don’t touch it or think about it during this time. Just leave it alone and let the yeast work. Remember, this is a no knead artisan bread recipe!

12-18 hours later…

• When it comes time to mixing the dough, if you wear rings, now would be a good time to take them off. The dough is sticky and turns into glue when it dries on any surface (Do you really want to spend your afternoon cleaning out all those crevices with an old toothbrush? Didn’t think so…)

What Type of Pan Should I Bake Artisan Bread In?

The recipe I used when I first made this bread (you can find it here) suggests that a cast iron Dutch oven pot is the best kind to use for this no knead bread recipe. However, of all the pots I’ve tried (cast iron, deep casserole dish with a glass lid, and round metal roasting pan) my round metal roasting pan has given me by far the best results with just the right amount of crispness in the crust.

  Isn’t this just the most beautiful loaf of no knead artisan bread you ever did see??

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You can usually get about 10-12 slices out of a loaf, and each slice comes just a little over 100 calories! I hope you get a chance to try this artisan bread recipe soon! And when you do, be sure to let me know what you think!!  

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Easy No Knead Artisan Bread

Rustic no knead bread with a crisp crust and tender crumb. This artisan bread recipe is perfect to make for sandwiches or serving as a side with soup, chili, or stew.

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By Chrissie (thebusybaker.ca)

Yield 12 slices

Prep 20 minutes mins

rising time 12 hours hrs

Cook 45 minutes mins

Total 13 hours hrs 5 minutes mins

Recipe: Ingredients 

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• ▢ 3 cups all purpose flour
• ▢ 1/2 teaspoon instant yeast
• ▢ 2 teaspoons sea salt
• ▢ 1 1/2 cups water at room temperature

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Recipe: Instructions 

• Start with a large bowl and a wooden spoon, and add your flour to the bowl. Measure the yeast and add it to one side of the bowl. Measure the salt and add it to the other side.
• Using a wooden spoon, stir the yeast into the flour on its side of the bowl first and then stir the salt into the flour on its side of the bowl. This will prevent the salt mixing directly with the yeast. Give the whole mixture a few good stirs to make sure everything is combined.
• Once the dry ingredients are combined, measure the water. Make sure the water is at room temperature; water that is too warm or too cold can kill the yeast and prevent the bread from rising at all. Pour the water in and stir with a wooden spoon. The dough will be rough and a bit sticky, but that's normal.
• Stir until all the flour is combined. This is not normal bread dough (there's no kneading involved in this recipe), so you don't need to be too concerned about the appearance of the dough at this point. Just make sure the ingredients are combined well.
  
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap. It's a good idea to ensure there's adequate space left in the bowl for the dough to at least double in size. Place the bowl in a warm, draft-free place and let it rise for 12-18 hours.
  
• After the dough has risen for 12-18 hours, preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Place your Dutch oven with the lid on in the cold oven and let it heat up with the oven.
• Place a piece of parchment paper on the counter and dust it with flour. Rub flour on your hands and scrape the dough away from the sides of the bowl, gathering it in your hands as best you can (it may feel kind of fluid and not at all like regular bread dough) and forming it into a circular loaf on the parchment paper. Don't worry if it still looks a little rough in places. This lends to the rustic look of this loaf.
  
• Once you have it shaped, the dough needs to undergo a second rise (much shorter than the first). The goal is to handle the dough as little as possible at this stage because any amount of tugging at the rough can cause it to deflate after it has undergone its second rise. The next few steps will help prevent this. But don't worry if it deflates a bit. This bread dough is pretty forgiving.
  
• Sprinkle flour over the top of the loaf and loosely cover it with plastic wrap to prevent a skin from forming over the dough. The flour also prevents the plastic wrap from sticking to the dough so when you take it off at the end of the rise, it doesn't disturb the dough and wreck the rustic shape you've created. Let the dough rise for about 45 minutes. Your oven will also be preheating during this time (and so will your pot).
• Once 45 minutes have passed remove the plastic wrap from the dough and trim the parchment paper into a circle closely around the dough. If it doesn't look like the dough has risen that much, don't worry about it. The loaf will puff up a bit when it hits the heat of the oven.
• Remove the preheated pot from the oven and transfer the dough into the pot as carefully as possible by handling only the parchment paper. Place the lid on the pot and return it to the oven for 30 minutes. Don't open the oven during this time, and certainly don't take the lid off the pot; the crispness of the crust develops because of the steam that builds up in the pot during this 30 minutes.
  
• After 30 minutes have passed, remove the lid from the pot and continue baking for another 15 minutes. After the 15 minutes have passed, remove the pot with bread from the oven and place it on a wire rack to cool. You'll probably hear it crackling as it cools - this is normal.
  
• If you can, resist the urge to cut into the bread until it has pretty much cooled completely. The bread continues to bake on the inside even after it has been removed from the oven and cutting it too early could result in the inside becoming gummy or rubbery.

Recipe: Notes

Quick rise method:

If you'd like to make a quick rise version of this bread, please click here for my Quick No Knead Bread Recipe. 

No Knead Bread Troubleshooting Tips:

• If your dough seems too fluid after the first rise, simply add 1/3 cup of flour to the top of the dough and mix it in, shaping the loaf into a round shape to rise again while the oven pre-heats.
• If your loaf falls or flattens during the second rise, simply re-shape before baking into as tight a ball as possible (creating surface tension should prevent the dough from falling). 
• Add 1 tablespoon of Vital Wheat Gluten to the dough with the flour to create a very voluminous dough that rises beautifully every single time and isn't too dense. 
• If the bottom crust of your bread burns or becomes too hard or tough, it's likely that the bottom burner of your oven is too hot OR you're using a pot that's black on the inside (these conduct heat more efficiently than one that's a light colour on the inside). Try lowering your oven temperature by 25 degrees, using the convection setting, or using a different pot that's light in colour on the inside.
• Use an oven thermometer to make sure your oven temperature is correct. If your oven runs hot, lower the temperature of your oven by 25 degrees to be sure you don't burn the bread.
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Course: Bread, Side Dish

Cuisine: American

Keywords: artisan bread recipe, easy bread recipes, no knead bread

Recipe: Nutrition

Nutrition Facts

Easy No Knead Artisan Bread

Amount Per Serving (1 serving)

Calories 115 Calories from Fat 9

% Daily Value*

Fat 1g2%

Saturated Fat 1g6%

Sodium 390mg17%

Potassium 38mg1%

Carbohydrates 24g8%

Fiber 1g4%

Sugar 1g1%

Protein 3g6%

Calcium 6mg1%

Iron 1mg6%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Notice: Nutrition is auto-calculated, using Spoonacular, for your convenience. Where relevant, we recommend using your own nutrition calculations.