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Faster No Knead Bread

This No knead bread recipe will help you make crispy crusted bread with soft and tender crumb inside.The ingredients are pretty basic,the method is so easy and mess free.We can make this artisan rustic no knead bread
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Proofing time 2 hours 35 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 30 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 1 Medium Sized Bread
Calories 242 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 390 g Bread flour/All purpose flour 3 cups(loosely packed)
  • 2 tsp Sugar optional
  • 1 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 3/4 tsp Yeast Instant yeast/Active dried yeast
  • 300 ml Water 1 1/4 cup(240 ml+60 ml)

Instructions
 

Prepare the bread dough

  • Into a bowl add the flour,sugar,salt and yeast.
  • Give it a good mix to make sure all the ingredients are evenly distributed in the flour.
  • Add some lukewarm water and mix everything together to form a shaggy mass of dough.

First proofing

  • Cover the dough with a plastic film and let them sit and rise in a warm environment for about 2 hours.

Shape the dough

  • After 2 hours,transfer the proofed dough on to a floured work surface.
    As the dough is very sticky,dust the dough with some flour whenever needed.
    With the help of a bench scraper or with hands,pull and stretch the dough and flod it on to itself to form a tensive dough ball.
  • Transfer this on to a parchment lined bowl.

Second proofing

  • Cover the bowl with a greased plastic film.
    Let the dough sit and rise for 35 minutes or until the dough get doubled in size.

Bake the bread

  • Tranfer the dough into a preheated dutch oven.
  • Bake at 450F for 30 minutes.
    Reduce the oven temperature to 400F and bake for another 8-12 minutes.
    At this point the more you bake the more crispier the crust of the bread will be.
  • You will be rewarded with a bread which is golden brown with crunchy crust on top and soft and tender delicious crumb inside.
    Enjoy!

If you are making bread on a regular baking tray

  • Prepare the dough as in step1
  • Proof the dough as in step 2
  • Shape the dough as in step 3
    Transfer the shaped dough onto a baking tray for the second proofing(35 minutes).
  • Bake the bread:
    As STEAM is the keyfactor for making crusty bread,We need to create a steamy environment while baking.
    Place a pan with hot water in the lowest rack of oven while baking and spraying with water inside the oven during the initial five minutes of baking will help to create this steamy environment inside the oven.
  • You will get a crispy crunchy crusted bread with soft and delicious crumb inside.
    Enjoy Baking No knead bread!

No knead Bread Calories

  • Total calories in this No knead bread :1454 kcal
  • Calories in one slice (if bread is sliced into 12 slices) :121 kcal

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