Water - slowly pour in the lukewarm water and mix until you have a 'shaggy dough' using a wooden spoon.

Dry Ingredients - in a large mixing bowl, whisk together all of the dry ingredients: flour, salt and yeast.I have this dutch oven and I use it for so many recipes from chili to soup and now bread! Dutch Oven - A cast iron dutch oven works best but you can use any heavy duty, oven safe pot with a lid.Cloth - A light weight cotton tea towel or dish towel.Cups & Spoons - you will need all of the usual suspects: a measuring cup, measuring spoon, a whisk and a good wooden spoon.

Bowl - I use a large glass mixing bowl but metal would work just as well.Active Dry Yeast - I use Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast, not instant or rapid rise for this recipe.Salt - regular old table salt does the trick.All-Purpose Flour - the best thing about this bread recipe is that it calls for AP Flour! No specialty bread flour required.Lahey's bread uses a long fermentation time instead of kneading to develop the gluten and the classic rustic bread texture without much effort, special ingredients or equipment.what's not to love about that?! All no-knead bread recipes are variations of the famous method developed by Jim Lahey. If there is a silver lining to this isolation, I suppose it would be that! So off I went to test and find the perfect EASY no-knead bread recipe.Īs I scoured the web and tested different no-knead breads, I discovered that they are all essentially the same. This time at home has definitely encouraged me to try new things in the kitchen, like bread baking. If you are reading this in the future.I'm sure you remember that crazy moment in our lives. I first became inspired to try no-knead bread during the 'great pandemic of 2020.' Ha! If you are reading this post in real time, you are most likely sheltered at home right along with me, searching the web for the perfect homemade bread recipe. That is until I discovered this method for Easy No-Knead Bread.

The science behind yeast and proofing, developing gluten, and everything else that goes into bread making quite frankly, overwhelms me. Making homemade bread has always intimidated me.

Easy homemade no knead bread