Best 2 Hour No Knead Bread Recipes
2 HOUR NO KNEAD BREAD
Making bread at home has never been easier than with my recipe for the Easiest 2 Hour No Knead Bread. Only 4 ingredients and 2 hours to hot, delicious bread on your table.
Provided by Wendy O'Neal
Categories breads
Time 2h
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- In a large bowl, combine yeast and warm water. Let sit for five minutes. Add flour and salt to the yeast mixture and stir until it's well combined (dough will be lumpy and won't look like your typical dough for rising). Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let stand in a warm area for 1 hour (I like to put it on my stove with the stove light on). After the dough has been rising for 40 minutes, place a 3 to 6-quart Dutch oven with lid in a cold oven and preheat to 450° F. Continue letting the dough rise for 20 more minutes. After the dough has risen for the full hour, turn dough out on a well-floured surface and sprinkle the top with a little additional flour. Using a bench scraper (or hands) fold dough over about 10 times to shape into a ball. Place dough ball into a large bowl lined with parchment paper (NOT wax paper) and cover with a towel. Let dough rest on counter for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, carefully (using oven mitts) remove heated Dutch oven and place the lid on a safe surface, lift the parchment paper and dough from the bowl and place gently into the hot pot. (the parchment paper too). Cover and bake for 30 minutes. Then, remove lid and bake uncovered 10 additional minutes or until bread is a golden color and sounds hollow when thumped. Remove Dutch oven carefully from the oven, with oven mitts, and take the bread out of the pot to cool. It's best to let bread cool completely.
SPEEDY NO-KNEAD BREAD
The original recipe for no-knead bread, which Mark Bittman learned from the baker Jim Lahey, was immediately and wildly popular. How many novices it attracted to bread baking is anyone's guess. But certainly there were plenty of existing bread bakers who excitedly tried it, liked it and immediately set about trying to improve it. This is an attempt to cut the start-to-finish time down to a few hours, rather than the original 14 to 20 hours' rising time. The solution is simple: use more yeast.
Provided by Mark Bittman
Categories breakfast, brunch, dinner, lunch, project, appetizer, side dish
Time 1h
Yield 1 big loaf
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Combine flour, yeast and salt in a large bowl. Add 1 1/2 cups water and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest about 4 hours at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
- Lightly oil a work surface and place dough on it; fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest 30 minutes more.
- At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6-to-8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under dough and put it into pot, seam side up. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes.
- Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.
NO-KNEAD BREAD
Here is one of the most popular recipes The Times has ever published, courtesy of Jim Lahey, owner of Sullivan Street Bakery. It requires no kneading. It uses no special ingredients, equipment or techniques. And it takes very little effort - only time. You will need 24 hours to create the bread, but much of this is unattended waiting, a slow fermentation of the dough that results in a perfect loaf. (We've updated the recipe to reflect changes Mark Bittman made to the recipe in 2006 after publishing and receiving reader feedback. The original recipe called for 3 cups flour; we've adjusted it to call for 3 1/3 cups/430 grams flour.) In 2021, J. Kenji López-Alt revisited the recipe and shared his own tweaked version.
Provided by Mark Bittman
Categories easy, breads, times classics, side dish
Time 1h30m
Yield One 1 1/2-pound loaf
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- In a large bowl combine flour, yeast and salt. Add 1 1/2 cups/345 grams water and stir until blended; dough will be shaggy and sticky. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rest at least 12 hours, preferably about 18, at warm room temperature, about 70 degrees.
- Dough is ready when its surface is dotted with bubbles. Lightly flour a work surface and place dough on it; sprinkle it with a little more flour and fold it over on itself once or twice. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest about 15 minutes.
- Using just enough flour to keep dough from sticking to work surface or to your fingers, gently and quickly shape dough into a ball. Generously coat a cotton towel (not terry cloth) with flour, wheat bran or cornmeal; put dough seam side down on towel and dust with more flour, bran or cornmeal. Cover with another cotton towel and let rise for about 2 hours. When it is ready, dough will be more than double in size and will not readily spring back when poked with a finger.
- At least a half-hour before dough is ready, heat oven to 450 degrees. Put a 6- to 8-quart heavy covered pot (cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic) in oven as it heats. When dough is ready, carefully remove pot from oven. Slide your hand under towel and turn dough over into pot, seam side up; it may look like a mess, but that is OK. Shake pan once or twice if dough is unevenly distributed; it will straighten out as it bakes. Cover with lid and bake 30 minutes, then remove lid and bake another 15 to 30 minutes, until loaf is beautifully browned. Cool on a rack.
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