How to Make Appetizing Artisan bread

Artisan bread. Feed your family with our vegan sprouted whole-grain bread. Our facility and products are free of milk, eggs, fish, tree nuts, peanuts, soy, & sesame. This homemade artisan bread recipe is astonishingly easy, and it makes enough for three delicious loaves, which you can bake as needed.

Artisan bread But generally, artisan bread is homemade, fresh, crusty, and deliciously rustic looking. An artisan is a skilled worker, one who works with their hands. But ironically, there isn't much "work" involved with this recipe. You can have Artisan bread using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Artisan bread

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

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. This is the basic 'Boule' bread mix from the book Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.

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..

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. All you need is: FLOUR: Bread flour results in a softer, fluffier bread because of the higher protein content. Regular all purpose or plain flour also work really well, with the texture changing only a little. To make this dutch oven no-knead bread, you only need flour, sugar, salt, yeast and water.

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