3/23/2019 Easy No-Knead Bread Recipe - Step by Step Photos - Budget Bytes

No-Knead Bread
Just five minutes of measuring and mixing is all it takes to make this extraordinary
no-knead bread dough. Follow these techniques for the best bread ever.

Prep Time Cook Time Total Time

18 hrs 45 mins 18 hrs 45 mins

Keyword: easy, Vegan, Vegetarian Total Cost: $0.33 recipe

5 from 17 votes

Ingredients
3 cups all-purpose flour $0.29
1/4 tsp instant or bread machine yeast $0.02
1/2 Tbsp salt $0.02
1.5 to 1.75 cup water* $0.00

Instructions
1. The day before baking, combine the flour, yeast, and salt in a large bowl and stir until they're well
combined. Stir in about 1.5 to 1.75 cups room temperature water until a shaggy, sticky ball of dough
forms and there is no dry flour left on the bottom of the bowl. Cover the bowl loosely with plastic and let it
sit at room temperature for 12-18 hours.
2. When you're ready to bake, sprinkle a little flour on top of the fermented dough, and scrape it out of the
bowl (the dough should be very light, fluffy, and bubbly by this time). With well floured hands, shape the
dough into a ball and place it on a piece of parchment paper. Let the dough rise for 30-60 minutes.
3. While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 425ºF, or the highest recommended temperature listed on
the packaging for your parchment paper. Place the Dutch oven inside the oven as it heats, and make
sure it sits in the fully heated oven for at least 15 minutes before baking the bread.
4. Once the bread has risen and the Dutch oven is fully heated, carefully remove the Dutch oven from the
oven (it will be EXTREMELY hot). Lift the parchment with the dough straight into the dutch oven and
cover it with the lid.
5. Return the Dutch oven to the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Carefully remove the lid and bake for
another 15-20 minutes, or until the crust is a deep golden brown. Remove the Dutch oven from the oven,
lift the bread out by by using the parchment paper, and allow it to cool before cutting open and serving.

Notes
*The actual amount of water needed may vary depending on ambient humidity and moisture content of the
flour. See images below for a representation of what it should look like after stirring in the water.

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