Recipe: Perfect Artisan bread

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Artisan bread This is a very easy bread to make without any kneading. Bake in a Dutch oven or heavy casserole dish. The bread comes out very crusty and with huge holes throughout, just like at the bakery. You can have Artisan bread using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Artisan bread

  1. You need 3 1/4 cups of bread flour.
  2. It's 2 teaspoons of instant yeast.
  3. It's 2 teaspoons of ground sea salt.
  4. It's 1 1/2 cups of cool or room temperature water.

This is the basic 'Boule' bread mix from the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois. I've mainly posted this recipe so that I don't have to hook out the book every time. A forum I belong to love this bread, which is what inspired me to. But generally, artisan bread is homemade, fresh, crusty, and deliciously rustic looking.

Artisan bread instructions

  1. Whisk together the bread flour, yeast, and sea salt..
  2. Gradually pour in 1 1/2 cups of water, and mix with a spatula or your hands, until the dough starts to form..
  3. Cover with aluminum foil, and leave to rest at room temperature for 3-4 hours. Move to the fridge to store for up to 2-3 days..
  4. Remove the cold dough from the bowl, and place on a lightly floured surface. Cut the dough into two pieces, and using your hands shape each piece into a loaf..
  5. Preheat the oven to 246 degrees celsius. Place the loaves on a floured non stick baking tray, and cover for 45 minutes..
  6. After 45 minutes, bake the dough for 20-25 minutes. Once the crust is golden brown, remove the tray from the oven and allow the bread to rest for 5 minutes before slicing..

An artisan is a skilled worker, one who works with their hands. But ironically, there isn't much "work" involved with this recipe. This is an easy bread recipe - you don't even need a mixer. To make this dutch oven no-knead bread, you only need flour, sugar, salt, yeast and water. The sugar helps to activate or feed the yeast just a little, which I've noticed helps to yield and fluffier inside, but in a pinch you can skip it.