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!