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Easy atisan bread

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This easy homemade Artisan Bread recipe only requires 4 simple ingredients to make! This crusty bread recipe will be the easiest yeast bread you’ll ever make. You don’t even need a mixer to make this bread with its thick, crispy crust and chewy crumb.
Course Breakfast, Side Dish
Keyword artisan rustic bread, easy bread, homemade bread, no kneed bread, rustic bread
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
resting time 3 hours
Total Time 3 hours 40 minutes
Servings 1 large loaf
Author adapted from Jim Lahey

Equipment

  • dutch oven

Ingredients

  • 4 cups flour (I used wholemeal white spelt flour but you can use bread flour)
  • 21 grams fresh yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbls sugar
  • 2 ½ cups warm water
  • 1 tbls sesamea seeds
  • 1 ½ tbls onion powder
  • 1 ½ tbls garlic powder

Instructions

  • Add your flour to a bowl with garlic and onion powder. Mix through.
  • On one side of the bowl add your salt and to the opposite side add your yeast.
  • Add sugar and pour warm water on top of the yeast. Let it sit for 5 minutes. If using fresh yeast let it activate for 10 min ( till you see the yeast foaming).
  • After 10 minutes mix everything through. Cover with the towel.
  • Let it sit for 2,5 hours in a warm place till doubles in size.
  • After the dough has risen, take it out onto a well floured surface, the dough will be sticky but that’s what you want.  Sprinkle the dough with extra flour and flour your hands then fold the dough from the bottom over the top until it holds its shape, it should only take 3-4 folds.  
  • In a clean bowl place a piece of parchment paper and gently put your dough down into the bowl, over the parchment paper. Cover and let sit for another 30 minutes.
  • While the dough rest, place your dutch oven with the lid into the oven and preheat at 250° C for 30 minutes.
  • When 30 minutes is up carefully take your dutch oven out. Take the lid off. Grab the parchment paper with the dough and place the dough along with the parchment paper into the dutch oven and place the lid on it and put back into the oven. 
  • Take a sharp scissors and make fewvlong slashes along the top to help the bread to open up and prevent the bread from splitting uneavenly.
  • Bake for 30 minutes, then carefully remove the lid with an oven mit, and let the bread bake for another 10-15 minutes.
  • Once done, carefully remove the bread from the dutch oven and allow to cool fully before cutting.
  • ENJOY your homemade bread!