Published Date: September 5, 2020 | Last Updated: March 22, 2023
It’s not often that the yummiest bread you’ll ever eat is also the easiest bread you’ll ever make. But this one is! By far! Make it and see how amazingly delicious and effortless it is!
It’s not often that the yummiest bread you’ll ever eat is also the easiest bread you’ll ever make. But this one is! By far! Make it and see how amazingly delicious and effortless it is!
Easy Dutch Oven Bread
I love this delicious artisan bread, especially because it is so simple to make! You will be amazed that the best bread you ever eat is also the easiest to make!
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Servings: 1 loaf
Equipment
- dutch oven
Ingredients
- 1 tsp active dry yeast
- 1 3/4 tsp salt
- 1 3/4 cups water (room temperature or slightly warm)
- 3 cups flour
Instructions
- Using a plastic or wooden spoon (avoid using metal) combine ingredients until a shaggy dough forms. Just mix it until there are no longer dry patches of flour. * you do not need to let the yeast dissolve and you do not need to knead the dough (yessssssss!)
- Cover the dough with plastic wrap and double cover it with a towel or lid. Let the dough sit at least 12 hours or up to 24 hours.
- On a heavily floured surface, dump out your dough and form it into a ball, kneading lightly for a minute or two, adding in a little more flour if needed. (But not too much!) Place the dough ball on a sheet of parchment paper, and cover again with plastic wrap and allow to rise for 1-2 hours.
- Meanwhile, one hour before you are ready to bake it, preheat your oven to 450° F, with your enameled Dutch oven inside of it. The Dutch oven needs to preheat at full temp for 30-40 minutes.
- When the Dutch oven has preheated, carefully transfer the parchment paper holding the dough into the pot, cover with the lid, and return the pot to the oven. Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the lid and bake for another 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and remove bread from the Dutch oven pot. Let cool, then dig in!
such an easy recipe and came out so amazing. thank you!
Author
Glad you liked it Jordan! Thanks for the feedback.
Could this be made with sourdough starter instead of yeast and how much starter would you suggest? I was thinking 1/2 a cup? Brand new to this and my scratch starter has been doubling in size twice a day for 2 days, I think she’s ready!!
Author
Yay your sourdough sounds like it’s doing awesome! I’m excited for you to try some recipes. I actually have a sourdough dutch oven bread recipe. It’s not on my website yet but here is the link to it on my instagram https://www.instagram.com/reel/CbD1PY9Da4-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link